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Picked from Tokyo's official visitor guide — a short walk or direct exit from this stop.

• Tojo-tei House and Garden戸定邸・旧徳川昭武庭園

  Tokugawa Akitake — the last lord of Mito, and a younger brother of the final shogun — opened this hillside residence in 1884 and lived there. It grew into nine linked buildings of 23 rooms, and by Matsudo City's own account no other Tokugawa family home of the Meiji decades has come down in anything near such complete condition; the buildings carry an Important Cultural Property listing. The garden holds a second national listing all of its own, as a Place of Scenic Beauty, and that citation turns on borrowed scenery — undulating lawn leaving the rooms, then an open westward fall toward the Edogawa, with Mount Fuji set far behind it. A history museum in the same park keeps Akitake's papers and possessions, among them what he brought home from the Paris exposition of 1867.

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• Chiba University Faculty of Horticulture — Matsudo campus gardens千葉大学園芸学部松戸キャンパス（西洋式庭園）

  A prefectural horticulture school opened on this ridge in 1909 and laid out its teaching grounds in European styles, which the campus still keeps. The formal French garden is the one to climb for — set a level below the ground around it, so you look down onto the whole pattern of beds at once — with an English landscape garden, an Italian garden and a rock garden nearby. Tojo-tei stands on the same hilltop, so the two make one walk.

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• Matsudo Shrine松戸神社

  A shrine to Yamato Takeru, known as Ontake Daigongen until it was renamed after the Meiji Restoration. Its small one-bay main hall is thought to be the rebuilding that followed a fire in 1736, which the city reckons among the oldest structures still standing in Matsudo; the worship hall went up in 1867 to replace one the Ansei earthquake had brought down, and the purification pavilion of the same year carries the four directional beasts on its corner brackets, with a hawk in place of the vermilion bird. All three were designated city cultural property in 2026.

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• Matsudo Central Park and the old Army Engineer School gate松戸中央公園（旧陸軍工兵学校正門門柱・歩哨哨舎）

  A workaday park on the Sagamidai plateau — tennis courts, cherry trees — entered past something much older than any of it: four brick piers of a main gate raised in 1920, and the blunt concrete sentry post beside them. The Army Engineer School trained on this hill from 1919 until 1945, and the gate is the part of it anyone can still walk up to. Brick is scarce in Matsudo, and the city has protected this piece of it since 2009 as a designated cultural property.

• Sakagawa waterside walk — Harusame Bridge to the brick sluice坂川（春雨橋親水広場〜小山樋門・レンガ橋）

  The Sakagawa threads the old post-town quarter of Matsudo a few streets back from the station, and the reach running south from the little lawn-and-timber-deck plaza at Harusame Bridge, past Matsudo Shrine, has been remade as a walking path planted with early-blooming Kawazu cherries. Follow it to the far end and you reach a squat brick sluice of 1898, three arches wide, which the prefecture built to stop the Edogawa shoving back up the Sakagawa — the oldest brick water gate in Chiba, and still stout enough that a prefectural road crosses on its back.

• The Edogawa embankment at Matsudo江戸川堤（松戸）・江戸川松戸フラワーライン

  Under ten minutes west of the station the streets end at a grass levee and the Edogawa opens out, a channel broad enough that the far bank is a different prefecture and nothing stands between you and the sky. The post town behind you lived off this water — fish brought overland from Choshi was loaded at landings here and sent downriver to Nihonbashi. Another ten minutes upstream along the crest is the riverbed flower field the city and its volunteers have tended since 1995.