Chiba Prefecture is crisscrossed by rivers, surrounded by the sea and blessed with rich natural resources, including the water and forests. It is located on the eastern side of the Tokyo metropolitan area, and occupies a peninsula that juts out into the Pacific Ocean. The southeastern part of the peninsula faces the Pacific Ocean, while the western side faces Tokyo Bay. Chiba Prefecture adjoins the Tokyo Metropolis and Saitama Prefecture to the northwest, and Ibaraki Prefecture to the north.

Chiba Prefecture, surrounded on three sides by the sea, has an oceanic mild climate, warm in winter and cool in summer. Especially the Minamiboso coast has rarely frost even in winter due to the warm current (Black Current) running in the offing. It, surrounded by the Pacific Ocean, is blessed with wide, green-full, rich nature and a superior location adjacent to the metropolitan Tokyo, and thanks to the improved expressways, you can have easy access to various places within the prefecture.
The bay area has many large-scale facilities such as Tokyo Disney Resort and Makuhari Messe, and you can enjoy experiences full of event and amusement features throughout the year.
The Tokatsu area has museums and reference libraries centering on local history and climate, and improved city parks, and you can enjoy a day trip and recreation taking advantage of water resources including rivers and lakes and tourist agriculture at all seasons.  The highlights of the area are:
Tokyo Disney Resort is the amusement world composed of two Theme Park and 8 hotel and integrated shopping centers.
Kikkomaan Soy Sauce Museum is a full-fledged study tour course provided at a corner of the soy sauce factory. 
Sharp High Technology Hall is a space where you can learn about the materials and mechanisms of liquid crystal and solar batteries.
Makuhari Messe is representative complex convention facilities in Japan.
The Historic Site of Kazusa Kokubun-Niji (nunnery temple) is a historic cultural asset that indicates that Ichihara.
Ichihara Elephant Kingdom- is the only zoo where you can ride on an elephant Matsudo Museum is an impression-gaining type museum constructed on the concept of “Seeing, Touching, and Feeling throughout the Body” in the “Forest and Park for the 21st Century,” a general park with grassy Nature.

Chiba Prefecture is blessed with rich nature including various beautiful shorelines and green hills, and the agriculture, forestry, and fisheries industries have long been active.
There are a lot of products from the sea and riches of soil and many traditional ways of cooking of them. Chiba proposes its original dishes or many ways of cooking and eating.

Information by Chiba Prefectural Government pages.