In this study, we discuss the conflict between residents, the exercise of power, and the behavior of acquiring legitimacy through townscape preservation and modernization in Katori City, Chiba Prefecture, where traditional townscapes have existed for over 200 years, from the perspective of actor-network theory. Most previous studies on regional revitalization have been linear and have described how to achieve goals. However, there are actors with different objectives in a region. Furthermore, because of these other objectives, conflicts arise between actors, and each actor engages in behaviors to gain legitimacy. In the case of Katori City in Chiba Prefecture, discussed in this study, multiple interviews revealed that a translation network was being constructed with human and nonhuman actors such as government officials, residents, town chairpersons, heavy rain, houses, and festivals. Furthermore, actors who utilized knowledge were incorporated into constructing the network, power was exercised using this knowledge, and legitimacy was acquired. Therefore, the fact that we could capture diverse actors and analyze their struggles, power plays, and legitimacy-seeking behaviors that occur in regional revitalization from the perspective of actor-network theory, which is concerned with the construction of networks through translation, is a novelty in the research on regional revitalization and the achievement of this study.