Gyotoku

A district in the southern part of Ichikawa City, Chiba Prefecture. It is close to the mouth of the Edogawa River and faces Tokyo Bay. Formerly Gyotoku-cho and Minami-Gyotoku-cho. In the early modern period, the Tokugawa clan encouraged the creation of salt fields, and since pine needles for fuel were easy to obtain, the largest salt field in Edo (Tokyo) Bay was formed. From the mid-modern period onwards, it also became the terminus of water transport on the Tone River and Edo River, and pilgrimages to Narita became popular, and the riverside settlements prospered as river ports and post towns. After the Meiji period, rice was cultivated in the low marshes, but in 1969 (Showa 44), the Tozai Line of the Teito Rapid Transit Authority (now Tokyo Metro) opened, and apartment complexes and houses began to be built.

[Yamamura Junji]

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千葉県市川市南部の地区。江戸川河口に近く、東京湾に面する。旧行徳町、南行徳町。近世初期、徳川氏は塩田造成を奨励し、燃料の松葉が得やすかったので、江戸（東京）湾最大の塩浜が形成された。中期以後、利根(とね)川、江戸川水運の終着点ともなり、成田参詣(さんけい)も盛んとなって、川岸の集落は河港町、宿場町として繁栄した。明治以後は低湿地での米づくりが行われてきたが、1969年（昭和44）営団地下鉄（現、東京地下鉄）東西線が開通して、マンションや住宅が建ち並ぶようになった。

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