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30-516: Hadano ( 秦野市 , Hadano-shi ) is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture , Japan. As of 1 June 2021, the city had an estimated population of 163,787 and a population density of 1600 persons per km². The total area of the city is 103.76 square kilometres (40.06 sq mi). Hadano is located in the foothills of the Tanzawa Mountains in west-central Kanagawa Prefecture and

60-512: A Lockheed Corporation style monorail system; the system was closed in 2001 when the amusement park was shut down. Since 2000, Odakyū has been adding track in both directions from Izumi-Tamagawa Station , on Tama River, the border station of Tokyo, to just outside Setagaya-Daita Station for expanding the availability of express trains, especially for morning commuter service. The lines between Setagaya-Daita and Higashi-Kitazawa Station are still under construction, however. Odakyu announced that

90-573: A directly elected mayor and a unicameral city council of 24 members. Hadano contributes two members to the Kanagawa Prefectural Assembly. In terms of national politics, the city is part of Kanagawa 17th district of the lower house of the Diet of Japan . Hadano was a regional commercial center during the Edo period following the introduction of tobacco cultivation to the area. The curtains closed on

120-479: A fire on the compartment. The man escaped and was arrested hours later. Odakyu owns three railway lines directly, and another three lines via subsidiaries. It also operates trains onto the Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line , JR East Jōban Line , and JR Central Gotemba Line . (As of March 17, 2018 timetable revision) Romancecar limited express services require a supplementary surcharge. Commuter service

150-560: A large amount of Hakone Tozan Railway stocks, instead of separating Keio Inokashira Line for Keio Corporation . Odakyu restarted Non-stop Limited Express service between Shinjuku and Odawara in 1948. In 1950, Odakyu trains ran through to Hakone-Yumoto on Hakone Tozan Line . Odakyu uses 1,067 mm ( 3 ft 6 in ) narrow gauge tracks, but the Hakone Tozan Railway is 1,435 mm ( 4 ft  8 + 1 ⁄ 2  in ) standard gauge , so one track of

180-622: Is 1906 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 24.2 °C, and lowest in January, at around 2.9 °C. Per Japanese census data, the population of Hadano grew rapidly during the late 20th century and has plateaued in the 21st. The name "Hadano" appears as a geographic term in the Heian period Wamyō Ruijushō , as "Hatano", and there has been scholarly speculation as to possible connections with

210-476: Is approved by the prefectural governor and the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications . A city can theoretically be demoted to a town or village when it fails to meet any of these conditions, but such a demotion has not happened to date. The least populous city, Utashinai, Hokkaido , has a population of three thousand, while a town in the same prefecture, Otofuke, Hokkaido , has over forty thousand. Under

240-540: Is approximately 12.8 kilometers north-to-south by 13.6 kilometers east-to west. About half of the city area is within the borders of the Tanzawa-Ōyama Quasi-National Park . Kanagawa Prefecture Hadano has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa ) characterized by warm summers and cool winters with light to no snowfall. The average annual temperature in Hadano is 13.4 °C. The average annual rainfall

270-534: Is shown on each line's page. Commuter services are shown on each line's page. The Odakyu Railway has been included in several Japanese language train simulator programs as well as the English language Microsoft Train Simulator program. Microsoft Train Simulator includes the railway's Odawara and Hakone Tozan lines, collectively referred to as the "Tokyo-Hakone" route, with the 2000 series commuter trainset and

300-464: The Meiji Restoration and with the establishment of the district system in 1878, the area came under the control of Ōsumi District ( 大住郡 , Ōsumi-gun ) and became Hadano town on 1 April 1889 with the creation of the modern municipalities system. On 26 March 1896, Ōsumi District and Yurugi District were merged to form Naka District . The town began to experience rapid growth after the opening of

330-675: The Nara period Hata clan . From the late Heian period until the Kamakura period , the area was divided into shōen controlled by descendants of Fujiwara no Hidesato , including the Sengoku-period daimyō , the Hatano clan. During the Edo period , it was nominally part of Odawara Domain , although large portions were tenryō territory controlled by the shōgun in Edo through various hatamoto . After

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360-491: The Odakyu Electric Railway in 1927. Hadano became a city on 1 January 1955, through the merger of former towns of Hadano and Minamihadano with the villages of Kitahadano and Higashihadano. The new city annexed neighboring the village of One, and the village of Kamihatano (from Ashigarakami District ) later the same year, and annexed the town of Nishihadano in 1964. Hadano has a mayor-council form of government with

390-451: The "city code" ( shisei , 市制) of 1888 during the "Great Meiji mergers" ( Meiji no daigappei , 明治の大合併) of 1889. The -shi replaced the previous urban districts /"wards/cities" (-ku) that had existed as primary subdivisions of prefectures besides rural districts (-gun) since 1878. Initially, there were 39 cities in 1889: only one in most prefectures, two in a few (Yamagata, Toyama, Osaka, Hyōgo, Fukuoka), and none in some – Miyazaki became

420-453: The Act on Special Provisions concerning Merger of Municipalities ( 市町村の合併の特例等に関する法律 , Act No. 59 of 2004) , the standard of 50,000 inhabitants for the city status has been eased to 30,000 if such population is gained as a result of a merger of towns and/or villages , in order to facilitate such mergers to reduce administrative costs. Many municipalities gained city status under this eased standard. On

450-578: The Kanagawa Prefectural Board of Education, and the prefecture also operates one special education school for the handicapped. A private junior college, the Sophia Junior College is located within Hadano. [REDACTED] Odakyu Electric Railway – Odakyū Odawara Line Cities of Japan A city ( 市 , shi ) is a local administrative unit in Japan . Cities are ranked on

480-584: The Odawara line, rarely were pre-World War II Japanese private railways constructed with double-track and fully electrified from the first day of operation. Two years later, on 1 April 1929, the Enoshima Line was added. The original full name of the railroad was Odawara Express Railway Company, Ltd. ( 小田原急行鉄道株式会社 , Odawara Kyūkō Tetsudō kabushiki gaisha ) , but this was often shortened to Odawara Kyūkō ( 小田原急行 , "Odawara Express") . The abbreviation Odakyu

510-526: The Romancecar was celebrated in September 2007. Station numbers were introduced to all Odakyū Line stations in 2014, with stations numbered using the prefix "OH". Odakyu are the current shirt sponsors of football club Machida Zelvia . On 6 August 2021, a mass stabbing incident occurred on one of its commuter services when a man stabbed nine passengers , seriously injuring a woman before trying to ignite

540-633: The bottle-neck will be resolved by 2013. All of its lines are double- or quadruple-tracked within Tokyo Metropolis as of March 2018 , a project first decided in December 1964 but due to NIMBY land acquisition difficulties, complex and expensive workarounds were constructed and finished, taking a half century. The main or Odawara Line acts as a bypass route for the Tōkaidō Main Line from Tokyo to western Kanagawa. The Romancecar 3000 series "SE"

570-716: The core of the Odakyu Group , which comprises 101 companies (as of July 14, 2017) and includes the Enoshima Electric Railway , Hakone Tozan Railway , Odakyu Bus  [ ja ] , Odakyu Department Store  [ ja ] , and Hyatt Regency Tokyo  [ ja ] hotel. It is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the Nikkei 225 . The 83 km (52 mi) line from Shinjuku to Odawara opened for service on 1 April 1927. Unlike

600-531: The delay of improvements from the railway company. Odakyu began construction on the - "Shinjuku Station Great Improvement Project" setting 5 lines and 10 platforms long enough for 10 standard commuter cars with service on the Chiyoda Line, among others. Plans for a four-track system in 1964 were prevented by residents of Setagaya Ward in Tokyo, as such the system remains uncompleted. The Setagaya Residents' opposition set

630-469: The industry's 300-year history in 1984, and the local farmers have largely converted to production of green tea and ornamental flowers. A former tobacco-trading center and processing plant belonging to Japan Tobacco and Salt Public Corporation (now Japan Tobacco ) has been replaced by a large shopping mall. Hadano has 13 public elementary schools and nine public middle schools operated by the city government. The city has three public high schools operated by

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660-535: The last prefecture to contain its first city in 1924. In Okinawa -ken and Hokkai-dō which were not yet fully equal prefectures in the Empire, major urban settlements remained organized as urban districts until the 1920s: Naha-ku and Shuri-ku, the two urban districts of Okinawa were only turned into Naha -shi and Shuri-shi in May 1921, and six -ku of Hokkaidō were converted into district-independent cities in August 1922. By 1945,

690-530: The number of cities countrywide had increased to 205. After WWII , their number almost doubled during the "great Shōwa mergers" of the 1950s and continued to grow so that it surpassed the number of towns in the early 21st century (see the List of mergers and dissolutions of municipalities in Japan ). As of October 1 2018, there are 792 cities of Japan. Odakyu Electric Railway The Odakyu Electric Railway Company forms

720-448: The other hand, the municipalities recently gained the city status purely as a result of increase of population without expansion of area are limited to those listed in List of former towns or villages gained city status alone in Japan . The Cabinet of Japan can designate cities of at least 200,000 inhabitants to have the status of core city , or designated city . These statuses expand the scope of administrative authority delegated from

750-495: The prefectural government to the city government. Tokyo , Japan's capital, existed as a city until 1943, but is now legally classified as a special type of prefecture called a metropolis ( 都 , to ) . The 23 special wards of Tokyo , which constitute the core of the Tokyo metropolitan area, each have an administrative status analogous to that of cities. Tokyo also has several other incorporated cities, towns and villages within its jurisdiction. Cities were introduced under

780-522: The same level as towns ( 町 , machi ) and villages ( 村 , mura ) , with the difference that they are not a component of districts ( 郡 , gun ) . Like other contemporary administrative units, they are defined by the Local Autonomy Law of 1947. Article 8 of the Local Autonomy Law sets the following conditions for a municipality to be designated as a city: The designation

810-422: The section from Odawara to Hakone-Yumoto (6.1 km (3.8 mi)) was changed to a dual gauge system. Odakyu operated the first Romancecar ( 1710 series ) limited express in 1951. After the 1950s, due to rapid Japanese economic growth, Odakyu was faced with an explosive increase of population along with its lines. Commuter passengers had to use very crowded trains every morning, and complained strongly with

840-483: The stage for a long-term and remarkable case in the courts and legislature. Odakyu could not take main part of transport from Tama New Town Area, though Odakyu started the operation of Tama Line in 1974. To serve its Mukōgaoka-Yūen Amusement Park, Odakyu operated the Mukōgaoka-Yūen Monorail Line between Mukōgaoka-Yūen and Mukōgaoka-Yūen-Seimon (1.1 km (0.68 mi), 2 stations) beginning in 1966 using

870-504: Was made popular by the title song of the 1929 movie Tōkyō kōshinkyoku and eventually became the official name of the railroad on March 1, 1941. On 1 May 1942, Odakyu merged with the Tokyo-Yokohama Electric Railway company (now Tokyu Corporation ), which controlled all private railway services west and south of Tokyo by the end of World War II . The company regained its independence on June 1, 1948, and it obtained

900-537: Was tested at speeds of up to 145 km/h (90 mph) in 1957, achieving a world record for narrow gauge 1,067 mm ( 3 ft 6 in ) lines at the time. These tests also provided important data on high-speed electric multiple units (EMU), which Japanese National Railways (JNR) used for its limited express EMUs, 151 series , and 0 Series Shinkansen introduced in the early 1960s. Odakyu celebrated its 80th anniversary in April 2007. The 50th anniversary of

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