The purpose of this study is to elucidate some changing aspects of the suburban farming settlements near Ichikawa City in relation to the transaction of farmlands and changes in land-use as a result of recent urbanization Although a number of studies have been made on suburban farming settlement, few have pursued the changes mentioned above. Three settlements were chosen for this study based on the different distances from the city center of Ichikawa ; Miyakubo : the nearest distance to the city center, Omachi the farthest from the center, and Ono : mid-way between Miyakubo and Omachi (Fig. 1). The author made continual systematic field surveys on these settlements for several years. The data on the conversion of land-use were obtained from the Agricultural Commission of Ichikawa Municipality which covers the period from 1961 to 1973. (1) The municipal area of Ichikawa City, which this study includes, has been under the strong urban influence of Tokyo Metropolis, (2) After the 1960's, the conversion of farm-lands to non-agricultural land-use has increased annually, keeping pace with the advance of urbanization in the settlements under study. At the same time, the propotion of the area converted without a change of ownership to that of the total conversions lands has gradually increased as well (Fig. 2). (3) The conversion of farm-lands to residential lots took place more often in the settle-ment nearest to the city center of Ichikawa, while conversion to factories, public institutions and warehouses took place in an area remote from the center. However conversion to residential lots is becoming more and more general in all the settlements (Fig. 3, 4, 5 and 6). (4) The conversion of farm-lands to other land-use without transfer of ownership is mainly for private of rental houses or apartments which are rented by the farmers who are the owners, or for their own personal residences (Tab. 3). (5) In the nearest settlement to the city center, conversion of their farm-lands is rather popular, even among the farming households with more than 1.5 ha. However, the sma-ller households with less than 1.5 ha find it difficult to get along only with farming, due to the decrease in their holdings as a result of conversion. In the settlement farthest from the center, the decrease of farm-lands has resulted more from selling than conversion. In fact, farming households with more than 1.0 ha have increased rather than decreased in their landed properties by purchase of farm-lands. In the settlement located at the midway point, the area of farm-lands either transferred to the other owners or converted to other land use is large, and as a result, farm-land area sold or used for purposes other than farming covers a large area. It was also found that in this area, land being purchased for farming only is very rare (Fig. 7).