Chiba-ken

Surfing center, beach resorts in hundreds, as well as the national Narita Airport, Chiba prefecture, adjacent to Tokyo-to, is a popular destination for relaxation starved Tokyo.

The prefecture was recently linked to Kanagawa prefecture by a huge tunnel and bridge project called the Umihotaru, the Ocean Firefly, because when viewed from Tokyo at night, it looks like a small speck of light, a firefly.