Hinohara, Tokyo
Hinohara (Japanese桧 原 村, Hinohara -mura ) is a village community ( mura ) in the district Nishitama ( "West - Tama " ) of Japan Tokyo Prefecture. It is the last remaining village on the main island part of the prefecture. A large part of the municipality consists of mountainous forests, the highest point is the 1,531 m high summit of Mitosan.
Geography
The center of Hinohara ( Motoshuku ) lies at the mouth of the Kita- Akigawa ( " North " ) in the Minami- Akigawa ( " South Akigawa "), which then flows as Akigawa east and terminates in the city Hachioji in the Tamagawa. Below are the districts Kami and Shimo- Motogō. The majority of the remaining population is located in the valleys of Kita and Minami- Akigawa and smaller side valleys. 93 % of the municipal area is wooded.
To the west of Mito -san is on the border to Okutama and Yamanashi prefecture (city Uenohara ), also on the border of Okutama are located in the northwest of the 1,405 m high Gozen -yama and the north of the 1,266 m high Odake, is in the south the Shoto -san (990 m ) on the border with the city of Sagamihara in Kanagawa Prefecture. On the border between the prefectures of Tokyo, Kanagawa and Yamanashi ( and the former provinces of Musashi, Sagami and Kai ) is close to the Shoto 960m on the "three provinces Pass " ( Sangoku - tōge, also Sangoku -san ) - no passport in terms of a significant transport pathway. In the southeast Hinohara divides the Ichimichi -yama (795 m) and the Usuki -yama ( 842 m) with the neighboring city of Akiruno. Are very Hinohara between the two river valleys of the Sengen - rei (浅 间 岭; 903 m) and the Matsubae -yama (松 生 山; 933 m).
A significant part of the municipal district in northwestern part of the Chichibu- Tama - Kai National Park.
History
Hinohara -mura has existed since the introduction of modern town and village communities in 1889 with no significant territorial modification. Since the transfer of the western Tama area of Kanagawa Prefecture in 1893 it belongs to the prefecture of Tokyo.
Traffic
The main streets Hinoharas the prefectural road 33, which initially leads Akiruno through the valley of [ Minami ] Akigawa, then it but leaves to the south in the direction of Sagamihara, the prefectural road 206, continue following the southern valley to the west and then over the mountains leads to Okutama Lake and the prefectural road 205 through the valley of the Kita- Akigawa.
Public transport buses are the Nishi- Tōkyō bus, which belongs to the Keio group.
Attractions
Several hiking and mountain hiking trails lead through Hinohara. In the community there are over 50 waterfalls. To the west lies the Mito -san of the nearly 200 -acre Hinohara Tomin no Mori ( "Forest of the prefecture citizens " ) with several loop trails and a small museum, one of two such forests in Tokyo Prefecture. In the vicinity in the southern valley is a small hot spring that Kazuma - Onsen.
Public institutions
The village operates the Hinohara - elementary and middle school. There is a crib, but no nursery and no upper or universities in Hinohara.
Hinohara part of the police district 9 of the Tokyo police, responsible is the area Itsukaichi in the city Akiruno. In Hinohara there are three rural police box ( chūzaisho ). Since 1974 Hinohara belongs to the jurisdiction of the Tokyo Fire Department, which is responsible only for the former city of Tokyo, but now for almost the entire prefecture until 1960. The fire station in the city Akigawa Akiruno has a field office in Hinohara.