History of Funabashi: 1965 – 1988
This period saw a rapid increase in the city’s population, from 220,000 in 1965 to 500,000 in 1983, for example. In the Funabashi Station area, large-scale retail stores opened successively and transformed the commercial landscape. An urban infrastructure was developed in Funabashi with an eye on turning it into a vibrant modern city.
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Opening of Funabashi City Sports Park (photographed in 1965) -
Opening of Funabashi Circuit (photographed in 1965) -
Kita-Narashino Station under construction (photographed in 1966) -
The 1st Industrial Festival (photographed in 1968) -
The population of Funabashi exceeded 300,000.The man in the middle is Mayor Saburo Watanabe (photographed in 1969) -
Commuting passengers hurry to Funabashi Station. The building in the background is the Seibu Department Store under construction to expand it. (photographed in 1970) -
An emergency state of land subsidence is declared. Land subsidence causes tidal inundation of roads in the Minato-cho 3-chome area at high tide. (photographed in 1971) -
A quadruple track on the Sobu line completed between Tokyo and Tsudanuma stations (photographed in 1972) -
The 28th National Sports Festival was held in Chiba Prefecture. Funabashi hosted equestrian, gymnastics, and weightlifting events (photographed in 1973) -
Opening of the Takanedai Kodan Building (a.k.a. Sun Promenade) (photographed in 1976) -
Opening of a Hokuso Development Railway section between Komuro Station and Kita-Hatsutomi Station (photographed in 1979) -
Opening of the Wakamatsu Children's Activity Center. On the photo Mayor Shichiro Fujishiro is surrounded by children (photographed in 1980) -
LaLaport, a large shopping center, opens where the Funabashi Health Center had once been located (photographed in 1981) -
Tree planting to commemorate the city’s population having passed the 500,000 mark. Mayor Kazuo Ohashi is in the middle, and Mr. Motokichi Osawa, speaker of the City Council at the far right -
Opening of the Funabashi Municipal Medical Center. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the city's priority was to improve welfare and medical services (photographed in 1983) -
Funabashi City of Sports and Health Declaration took place in the Sports Park. (photographed in 1983) -
Opening of an ice skating rink in the swimming pool area of the Sports Park (photographed in 1986) -
Signing of a sister-city agreement between Funabashi and Hayward City in the United States (photographed in 1986)
