is a district of Narashino City,

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, consisting of 1-chōme to 4-chōme. The name “Okubo” is also used to refer to the area around Keisei Ōkubo Station.

Etymology

The name Okubo came from a sunken place (''Kubo'') of a tributary of the or Okubo clan, a ''

hatamoto A was a high ranking samurai in the direct service of the Tokugawa shogunate of feudal Japan. While all three of the Shōgun, shogunates in History of Japan, Japanese history had official retainers, in the two preceding ones, they were referred ...

'' of the neighborhood in the

Edo period The , also known as the , is the period between 1600 or 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when the country was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and some 300 regional ''daimyo'', or feudal lords. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengok ...

Demographics

The population as of September 2018 is shown below.

Transportation

Rail service

Keisei Electric Railway The (stylized as K'SEI since 2001) is a major private railway in Chiba Prefecture and Tokyo, Japan. The name ''Keisei'' is the combination of the kanji 京 from and 成 from , which the railway's main line connects; the combination uses diffe ...

Keisei Main Line {{Infobox rail line , name = Keisei Main Line , native_name = 京成本線 , native_name_lang = ja , color = 005aaa , logo = {{KSLS, KS, 50 , logo_width = , image = Keisei-Series3000-3042.jpg , image_width = ...

** Keisei Ōkubo Station

Bus service

* Narashino City Happy Bus - Keisei Ōkubo Station Route ** Okubo 1-chōme - Keisei Ōkubo Station North Entrance

Commerce

Commercial area locates to the north of Keisei Ōkubo Station. * Okubo Shopping District * Maruetsu Okubo-ekimae

Education

* Narashino City Okubo-Higashi Elementary School

References

External links

Okubo Shopping District (in Japanese)
Populated places in Chiba Prefecture Narashino {{Chiba-geo-stub