Abstract
In suburban area, the transfer of agricultural land ownership beyond border of municipality often occure. So some rate of agricultural land belongs to the owner living outside of agricultural land's municipality. This paper call that case “Outside Landowner”. The purpose of this paper is to compare the difference of Outside Landowner's landuse change from local landuse change and discuss what is the cause of Outside landowner's landuse difference. Survey area is Soka city, north of Tokyo.
The results are these.
1) The reducing rate of Outside Landowner's agricultural land is low from the rate of local agricultural land.
2) The Outside Landowner living in neighbor municipality, the rate of agricultural landuse is high. This rate becomes low where Outside Landowner lives further from Soka city.
3) The Outside Landowner's land distributes near the border of municipality
4) The landuse change from agricultural land to informal non-agricultural use tends to occure when area is small and neighbor landuse is nonagricultural landuse.
