Abstract
The relationship between physical characteristics and local residents perceptions on crop-field landscapes is discussed in this paper. Six crop-field scenes different in their geographical structure were selected from the study area in Gunma, Japan. A questionnaire survey was then conducted to residents in the study area to identify their perceptions on the six scenes. By applying principal component analysis to the responses on the question asking the reasons of preferable scenes, the six scenes were categorized into three groups as “large-scaled modern (high preference)”“traditional” and “small-scaled suburban (low preference)”. Analyses on the overall preference and preferable/not-preferable landscape elements of the six scenes suggested that residents' perceptions on landscapes are affected both by geographical structure and landscape elements.
