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我孫子市（あびこし）は、千葉県の北西部に位置します。人口は約13万人。江戸時代より水戸街道・我孫子宿の宿場町として栄えました。白樺派の拠点で、数多くの文化人が風光明媚な場所として手賀沼畔に住居や別荘を構える文化都市として栄え、広く「北の鎌倉」と称されました。

Abiko City

Abiko is located in the northwestern part of Chiba prefecture, about 30 kilometers from the prefectural capital of Chiba, and within 30 to 40 kilometers of central Tokyo. Abiko had an estimated population of 131,000 in 59,000 households.

Abiko has a humid subtropical climate characterized by warm summers and cool winters with light to no snowfall. The average annual temperature in Abiko is 14.7 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1345 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 26.3 °C, and lowest in January, at around 3.8 °C.

From the Taisho period to the early Showa period, Abiko was sometimes called “Kamakura in the north” as many prominent cultural figures such as Naoya Shiga, Saneatsu Mushanokoji, Soetsu Yanagi, and Bernard Leach had villas in the town, which became a center for the Shirakabaha literary coterie. Shirakabaha see more