Mizuho, Tokyo

Mizuho (Japanese瑞 穂 町, machi ) is a town in the district of Nishi- Tama Japanese Tokyo Prefecture.

Geography

Through the establishment of independent cities in the second half of the 20th century Mizuho is now cut off from the rest of the remaining communities of the county.

Neighboring communities of Mizuho are beginning from the south clockwise, the ( district-free ) Town Fussa, Hamura, Ōme, Iruma, Tokorozawa and Musashimurayama.

History

The municipality was created in 1940 by the union of the four village communities ( -mura ) Hakonegasaki, Ishihata, Tonogaya and Nagaoka. These had formed since the introduction of modern municipal orders in 1889 a community association ( Choson kumiai ) - until 1893 even as the entire district as part of Kanagawa Prefecture. Opened in 1940 and the Imperial Army Air Force at the southern boundary of the municipality the airfield Tama ( Tama hikōjō ), since the end of the war in the 1950s significantly increased Yokota Air Base of the Air Force, which significantly influenced the development of Mizuho. 1958 in a prefecture -border merger community, a large part of the village Moto - Sayama was incorporated in Iruma District of Saitama Prefecture after Mizuho.

The population of Mizuho doubled between the 1960s and 1990s, largely stagnated in the 2000s and has started to decline.

Since 2006 there is a twinning between Mizuho and Morgan Hill in the U.S. state of California.

Attractions

On the eastern border of the Mizuho Noyamakita - Rokudōyama Park, a prefecture -powered Park ( toritsu kōen ) located on the edge of the Natural Park Prefecture Sayama ( Tōkyō toritsu Sayama shizen kōen ), which also extends into the urban area of ​​Mizuho.

Traffic

The Hachikō Line of JR Higashi- Nihon today links the city with the Hakonegasaki station since 1931 to the rail network at. Most important road link is the National Road 16, which bypasses the village of Mizuho on the 1989 finished Mizuho bypass.

Economy

In Mizuho is a factory for the maintenance of aircraft engines by IHI, which employs around 1,200 staff. A well-known agricultural product from Mizuho is called the Sayama tea, as opposed to grown in Saitama prefecture tea as Tokyo Sayama tea ( Tōkyō- Sayama - cha).

Education

The präfekturbetriene agricultural and horticultural High School Mizuho ( Mizuho Tōkyō toritsu nōgei Koto Gakko ) is the only high school in Mizuho. The city Mizuho operates five elementary and two middle schools.

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