Abstract: Suburban agriculture namely urban agriculture in Japan is a new regional agriculture form arising with the rapid economic growth and the fast urbanization in Japan. With the attribute from “transit agriculture” to “sustainable agriculture by plan”, urban agriculture in Japan has gone through a special course. In current Japan where the farming land and the residential land interlace, as an indispensable chain of state land design, urban agriculture attracts attention of the society again. This paper collates the relevant literatures to deepen the cognition on Japanese urban agriculture, an urban regional agriculture and define the direction of research on future urban agriculture.