City
Planning & Construction
Location and Area CoveredTsukuba Science
City is located approximately 60 km northeast of the center of Tokyo and about
40 km northwest of New Tokyo International Airport. It is in the southern part
of Ibaraki Prefecture, with Mt. Tsukuba, a famous mountain in the Kanto Region,
on the north and Lake Kasumigaura, Japan's second largest lake, on the east.
It stretches across the entire area of one city, namely Tsukuba City . The site
covers an area of approximately 28,400 hectares (equal to about half the area
of Tokyo's ward sections), most of which is on a plateau 20-30 meters above sea
level.
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