In Japan, changes of social structure, people's demand for urban amenities and the necessity for new spaces to meet the demands of society for globalization and the advanced communication system have forced Japanese to urbanize the use of metropolitan coastal areas. We have been exploring this subject by showing that the cause of ineffectiveness in developing such coastal areas is due to applying methods for developing inland areas to such coastal areas. This paper is a continuation of our study that investigates patterns of land use arrangement in Metropolitan coastal areas in terms of examining land use by the unit. So this research employs the shape analysis including size, stretch and density consideration of land use conversion in the metropolitan coastal areas.
