Hinode, Tokyo
Hinode (Japanese日の出 町, Hinode -machi ) is a district town ( machi ) in Nishitama -gun ( "Circle West Tama " ) of Japan Tokyo Prefecture. Through the establishment of independent cities it is now cut off from the other three remaining communities of the county.
Geography
Hinode is located on the western edge of the Kanto plain in the valley section of the Hirai -gawa in the Okutama Mountains. The bulk of the settlement and agricultural land focus on a small, flat area on the Hirai -gawa in the southeast (the former village Hirai ) and the valleys of Hirai and Ōguno -gawa ( the former village Ōguno ) west of it. The larger north-west of the city limits is apart from the valleys and some smaller side valleys mainly from mountain forests. To the north is bordered Hinode today at the county-level city Ōme, to the south Akiruno.
The Hirai -gawa rises in the west of the municipality and leaves it in the southeast, it flows 16.5 km on the urban area of Akiruno in the Tama -gawa. In the west, on the border with Ōme is the 902 m high summit of the Hinode -yama.
History
The municipality was created in 1955 as Hinode -mura, a village community, through the merger of the villages Hirai -mura (平 井村) and Ōguno -mura (大 久 野村). The town was Hinode 1974.
Economy
In addition to agriculture, forestry and wood processing - Hinode is considered to be the national leader in the manufacture of coffins - to moved the cement industry in Hinode in to use the local limestone deposits, but production in recent decades has been largely transferred to other sites. The retail group Aeon opened in 2007 a large shopping center in Hinode. It is located in the industrial area Miyoshino that planned the community since the late 1980s in the future motorway junction.
Traffic
2002 Hinode has been connected to the motorway network: The Hinode interchange at the Shutoken Chūō Renraku jidōshadō is located on the eastern edge of Hinode (short ken'ō - dō, Eng Ken -O Expressway. ). With its own railway connection Hinode has not today, but the Itsukaichi Line of JR Higashi- Nihon does not extend far south of the city limits by the adjacent Akiruno; at times the state railway joined a small side line Okuno, the passenger on this was discontinued in 1971. Buses of the Nishi- Tōkyō bus, a company of Keio group should head towards Itsukaichi and Akigawa.
Attractions
Several Berg-/Wanderwege lead by Hinode. In the northwest below the Hinode -yama is a hot spring that Mitsuzawa tsurutsuru - Onsen.
Nationally known the Hinode Hill House is ( Hinode Sanso ) of former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone and LDP chairman, who also received state guests here. The property above the Ōguno Valley is accessible to admission to the public for several years.
Public institutions
In Hinode, there are three primary schools and two secondary schools, which are operated by the city. Also located in Hinode a by- campus private Daigaku Ajia ( " Asia University ").
Hinohara part of the police district 9 of the Tokyo police, responsible is the area Itsukaichi in the city Akiruno. In Hinohara there are several rural police box ( chūzaisho ). Since 1974 Hinohara belongs to the jurisdiction of the Tokyo Fire Department, which is now responsible for almost the entire prefecture. The fire station in the city Akigawa Akiruno is only about a hundred yards beyond the municipal boundary.