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Urban master plan is required for making a sustainable city. Citizen participation in the planning process is essential for making a better urban master plan in this sense. Workshop approach is becoming a noticeable way of citizen participation. This study is focused on the function of consensus building in the workshop approach and based on the Kamakura City as a case study. The Following points are concluded; (1) Although only a few problems are solved, most of points can be extracted and chosen. (2) Problems and goals are clarified in each meetings. On the contrary, neither the way of solving problems nor realizing goals are gotten their ideas into shape. (3) However the plan evolves as meetings go by, technical knowledge is required. As a result, administration and consultant take large part in making draft.