Abstract
The purpose of this study is to clarify the changing factors of land use planning outside the zones regulated in the town planning area. The reason of this research is in the recent drastic change at suburban area, which has been causing disordered land use and deterioration of rural landscape as well. As such an example, we investigated an area situated in Takamori-machi, Nagano prefecture. The results are as follows: Two factors of land use change have been revealed. First, it's not easy to make people agree as to land use planning because of their different living area being devided into four settlements. Secondly, the lack of agricultural successors and aging of frmers are accelerating the land use change.
