Abstract
This paper discussed about the land use and landscape changes in the rural mountainous area since Meiji era (1890's) by introducing a case study done in Moroga village, Wakasa, Tottori Prefecture. In this study, GIS is successfully applied for the integration of various kinds of data such as aerial photos, topographic maps, vegetation map, forest planning maps, land ledgers as well as field survey records. The geo-spatial landscapes corresponding to each epoch over the past 100 years were reconstructed and mapped by the integrated analysis of the above spatial data, then the historical changes of land use concepts of village people in the mountainous area were depicted on GIS.
