Matsudo
Japan
Matsudo, city, Chiba ken (prefecture), east-central Honshu, Japan. It lies on the Jōban Line (railway), east of the centre of Tokyo.
During the Edo (Tokugawa) period (1603–1867), Matsudo was a post town on the Mito-kaidō (Mito Highway) and a port on the Tone River and the Edo River. After World War II it became a residential and industrial suburb of the Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan area, its factories including ironworks and engineering works. Pop. (2005) 472,579; (2010) 484,457.
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