Eric Takabayashi wrote:
> I've noticed for some time that real estate is cheap east of Chiba
> city, about the same as rural areas here, yet within a 50 km radius
> of Tokyo.
>
> Is there a particularly bad reason for the area to be cheap? In
> Kujikiri, I would be a 6 km, 25 minute bus ride from the station, but
> I could be walking distance from the beach, on hundreds of square
> meters of grassy residential land.
>
Not sure what you're considering as cheap, but the same could be said of
the areas north of Kobe (around Sanda). Relatively close to two major
urban centers, but not ungodly expensive.

John W.