Hachiōji, Tokyo

Hachioji (Japanese八 王子 市, -shi ) is a city on the western edge of the Kanto plain in Japan and part of the agglomeration of Tokyo. With more than half a million inhabitants, it is the center of the western part of Tokyo Prefecture.

History

Hachioji emerged in the late Heian period (12th century) around an old, no longer preserved samurai fortress, which was given the name Hachioji 1584. In the Edo period, Hachioji flourished as one of the 38 post stations on the Kōshū - Kaidō that runs from Tokyo to the Japanese Alps to the Sea of ​​Japan.

In Hachioji are the mausoleums of the Taishō tennō, the Empress Teimei and Shōwa tennō.

Hachioji, until then a town ( machi ) in the district of South Tama and the district administration office, was on September 1, 1917 to the independent city ( shi ); she was the second in the prefecture of Tokyo to the city of Tokyo, the eighth in Kantō and the 66th in the country.

Hachioji is with several railway lines to reach from Tokyo and Yokohama in less than an hour and has therefore become a bedroom community since 1970. The cheap land prices were also the reason for a number of universities in Tokyo, some faculties and the courses especially for the low semesters after Hachioji embarrassed.

The large number of students and the many commuters have meant that Hachioji, has with several department stores and many pubs and bars in the large pedestrian zone around the two train stations around, become one of the most vibrant suburbs of Tokyo. On the mountain of the city, the Takao, can be reached by a cable car. It provides a wide view of the Kanto plain to the skyscrapers of Tokyo on a clear day.

As of April 2015 is to be ( chūkaku -shi) Hachioji " core city ". It would allow the first county-level city in the prefecture of Tokyo in one of the special forms for large cities ( shitei toshi Seirei / chūkaku -shi / tokurei -shi) with additional administrative responsibilities.

Traffic

  • Train: JR Chuo Main Line: Hachioji Station to Shinjuku
  • JR Yokohama Line: Hachioji Station to Yokohama
  • JR Hachikō Line: Station Hachioji after Kawagoe
  • Keio Line: Shinjuku
  • Chūō - highway
  • Ken -O Expressway
  • National Road 16 to Saitama, Chiba or Yokosuka
  • National Road 20: Tokyo or Shiojiri
  • National Road 411
  • The medieval Jimba Kaido, an extension route of Kōshū Kaido between Edo and Kōfu leads today as a prefectural road 521 from Hachioji on the Wada Pass to Fujino in modern Sagamihara.

Education

At present there are 19 universities and campuses of foreign universities in the city to find:

  • Kogakuin University ( Hachioji campus, since April 1963)
  • Meisei University ( Hino Campus (main part in Hino ), since April 1964)
  • Teikyo University ( Hachioji campus, since April 1966)
  • Zokei University of Tokyo ( since April 1966)
  • Junshin - Women's University Tokyo ( since April 1967)
  • Kyorin University ( Hachioji campus, since April 1970)
  • Tama Art College ( Hachioji campus, since April 1971)
  • Soka University ( since April 1971)
  • Yakka University ( since April 1976)
  • Takushoku University ( Hachioji campus since April 1977)
  • Chūō University ( Tama Campus, since April 1978)
  • Nihon Bunka University ( since April 1978)
  • Kyōritsu - Women's University ( Hachioji campus, since April 1979)
  • Hosei University ( Hachioji campus (main part in Machida ), since April 1984)
  • Kasei Gakuin University, Tokyo ( Machida Campus (actually in Machida, but in city limits ), since April 1984)
  • Institute of Technology ( Hachioji campus since April 1986)
  • Metropolische University of Tokyo ( Minami- Osawa Campus, since April 2004) Tōkyō- toritsu Daigaku ( April 2004 - March 2011)

Former:

  • Kokugakuin University ( Hachioji - campus, April 1967 - March 1991)
  • Temple University

Museums

In the Hachioji Murauchi Art Museum is located. The museum displays mainly French paintings of the 19th and 20th centuries. The Tokyo Fuji Art Museum exhibits art from Europe alongside masterpieces of Japanese art.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Nobutsugu Koenuma (1908-1946), physician
  • Youki Kudoh (born 1971 ), actress
  • Yumi Matsutoya (* 1954), J - pop singer and songwriter
  • Hiroshi Yamada (born 1958 ), politician

Adjacent Cities and Towns

  • Tokyo Prefecture Hino
  • Machida
  • Akiruno
  • Akishima
  • Fussa
  • Tama
  • Hinohara
  • Sagamihara
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