Profile of Katori City
更新日：2025年2月6日
Katori city is in the northeast corner of Chiba prefecture and northern part of the city borders on Ibaraki Prefecture. To Katori city, it's 70km from Tokyo and 15km from Narita Airport, known as the sky-gateway of Japan.
The "Tone-gawa" River runs from west to east in the northern part of the city, wafting taste of Suigo and paddy fields spread out in its basin. Southern part is in Hokuso Plateau and flat land consists of mainly forests and fields.
Thanks to a mild climate and rich soil, Katori is famous for rice and provides metropolitan area with food. It's also known as a source of early rice from long ago.
In addition, there's water and greenness around the city and it is full of nature, history and culture. For example, pastoral landscape and Satoyama with those we associate a piece of beautiful scenery of old Japan, natural scenery around the Tone River and Inoh Tadataka's old house (one of a national historic spot), who is the first person completed surveyed map of Japan.
City Emblem
Beautiful waterside scenery, broad paddy fields, nature of Satoyama and the blue sky spreading out toward the future. We made the emblem look like the letter “K", the initial letter of Katori city and also to look like a birds wings flapping.
This lively shape symbolizes beautiful, sublime nature and the progress of Katori. (Established September 3rd, 2006)
City Flower, Tree and Bird
City Flower (Iris) "Ayame"
Iris is popular flower among citizens of Katori city. They can be found in abundance around Katori's waterside areas, such as the Tone River, the Ono River, the Kurobe River and the Kuriyama River.
Suigo Sawara Ayame Park has over 1.500.000 million Irises and is a major tourist attraction, which many tourists visit from all parts of Japan.
Accordingly, the Iris became designated for the city flower.
City Tree (Cherry) "Sakura"
There are many places famous for cherry blossoms, such as Suwa Park, Joyama Park, Tachibana Fureai Park and Katori Jingu Shrine.
We selected cherry as the city tree because we hope to improve the image of the city more by planting yet more from now onward.
City Bird (Reed Warbler) "Yoshikiri"
Reed Warbler is well known to citizens of Katori.
We call "Yoshikiri" in Japanese.
Reed Warbler's are often associated with wetlands and marshes, which is fitting for a major waterside city like Katori. This bird has often been the centre of many poems and Haikus, and they are known to sing very merrily.
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