Anesaki

A district of Ichihara City facing Tokyo Bay in the mid-west of Chiba Prefecture. Formerly Anesaki Town. The station name is Anegasaki, which is also the common name. During the Edo period, it developed as a post town on the Kisarazu Kaido road, and has a town-village structure. Shallow seaweed and shellfish fishing was popular along the Tokyo Bay coast, but land reclamation has led to the formation of a coastal industrial complex where thermal power plants and petrochemical factories are concentrated. In recent years, there has been significant development of housing land on the plateau.

[Yamamura Junji]

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千葉県中西部、東京湾に臨む市原市(いちはらし)の一地区。旧姉崎町。駅名は姉ヶ崎(あねがさき)で、一般的な呼称ともなっている。江戸時代木更津(きさらづ)街道の宿場町として発達し、街村形態を示す。東京湾岸では、ノリと貝の浅海漁業が盛んであったが、埋立てで、火力発電所や石油化学工場が集中する臨海コンビナートが形成。近年台地上での宅地開発が著しい。

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