Western Tokyo
The Tama region and the Tama area (多 摩 地域jap, Tama - chiiki ) is the western part of Tokyo prefecture, so the entire area west of the prefecture capital of 23 districts. Geographically, the area share of Okuchichibu Mountains ( in Kumotori -yama 2017m high), at the Musashino Plateau (武 蔵 野台 地, Musashino - daichi ), on the Tama hills and on the plains of the Tama River.
The entire area covers 1169.49 km ² in 26 independent cities ( shi), 3 small towns ( chō ) and a village ( son). The area has 4,128,111 inhabitants with a population density of 3529.83 inhabitants per km ² (as of 1 May 2008). The population is concentrated, mainly driven by the geographical conditions and proximity to the center of Tokyo very different. In the located in the extreme northwest of Okutama area live 27 inhabitants per km ², in the heavily urbanized Komae in the southeast, the population density is, however, 12,264 inhabitants per km ². Historically corresponds to the Tama region largely the Tama -gun ( county Tama ) without the parts that were incorporated in the early 20th century in the city of Tokyo Musashi Province, and was from 1871 to 1893 part of Kanagawa Prefecture.
The cities are:
- Akiruno
- Akishima
- Chōfu
- Fuchū
- Fussa
- Hachioji
- Hamura
- Higashikurume
- Higashimurayama
- Higashiyamato
- Hino
- Inagi
- Kiyose
- Kodaira
- Koganei
- Kokubunji
- Komae
- Kunitachi
- Machida
- Mitaka
- Musashimurayama
- Musashino
- Nishitōkyō
- Ōme
- Tachikawa
- Tama
The rest of the area, the small towns Hinode, Mizuho, Okutama and the village Hinohara lie in the district Nishitama.
- Geography ( Tokyo Prefecture)