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16-485: Inagi is located in the south-central portion of Tokyo Metropolis , approximately 25 kilometers from the center of Tokyo. The Tama River flows through the city, which is bordered by Kanagawa Prefecture to the south. Tokyo Metropolis Kanagawa Prefecture Inagi has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa ) characterized by warm summers and cool winters with light to no snowfall. The average annual temperature in Inagi

32-766: A shōen controlled by the Oyamada clan, and later by their cadet branch, the Inabe clan into the Kamakura period , and was an area contested between competing branches of the Ashikaga clan and Uesugi clan in the Muromachi and Sengoku periods . After the start of the Edo period , the area was tenryō controlled directly by the Tokugawa shogunate . Inagi as a municipality was founded on April 1, 1889 as

48-598: A directly elected mayor and a unicameral city council of 22 members. Inagi, together with the city of Tama , contributes two members to the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly . In elections to the lower house of the Diet of Japan , the city is a part of the Tokyo 30th district . Inagi is largely a bedroom community for central Tokyo due to extensive new town public housing projects in the late 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. There

64-434: A village in what was then Minamitama District , Kanagawa Prefecture , from the merger of 6 pre- Meiji period hamlets with the establishment of the modern municipalities system. The district was transferred to the administrative control of Tokyo Metropolis on April 1, 1893. On April 1, 1957, Inagi Village was promoted to town status, and to city status on November 1, 1971. Inagi has a mayor-council form of government with

80-681: Is 14.3 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1647 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 25.6 °C, and lowest in January, at around 3.2 °C. Per Japanese census data, the population of Inagi has increased steadily since the 1950s. The area of Inagi has been settled since the Japanese Paleolithic , or for over 20,000 years, based on projectile points, stone tools and microliths found in several locations within city borders. There

96-737: Is a Japanese railway line which connects Tachikawa Station in Tachikawa, Tokyo and Kawasaki Station in Kawasaki, Kanagawa . For most of its length, it parallels the Tama River , the natural border between Tokyo and Kanagawa prefectures. It lies along the Tama Hills . It is part of the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) network. The line forms part of what JR East refers to as the "Tokyo Mega Loop" (Japanese: 東京メガループ ) around Tokyo, consisting of

112-545: Is also some residual agriculture, notably pears and grapes. The paper manufacturer, Nippon Filcon is headquartered in Inagi. Tertiary: The Tokyo Metropolitan Government Board of Education operates one high school: Previously Inagi High School  [ ja ] existed. Inagi has twelve public elementary schools and six public junior high schools operated by the Inagi City Board of Education. Municipal junior high schools: Municipal elementary schools: There

128-608: Is evidence of several Jomon period settlements, but settlement disappeared towards the end of the Jomon period due to climate change and eruptions of Mount Fuji. The area was sparely settled in the Yayoi period , with increasing settlement density in the Kofun period . A number of Nara period remains have been found, including the ruins of a roof tile kiln. During the Heian period , the area became part of

144-635: Is one private junior-senior high school: [REDACTED] JR East – Nambu Line [REDACTED] Keio Corporation - Keio Sagamihara Line Tokyo Metropolis Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.226 via cp1108 cp1108, Varnish XID 827058233 Upstream caches: cp1108 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Fri, 29 Nov 2024 08:48:00 GMT Nambu Line The Nambu Line ( Japanese : 南武線 , romanized :  Nanbu-sen )

160-868: The Keiyo Line , Musashino Line , Nambu Line, and the Yokohama Line . The name refers to the southern (Japanese: 南 ) part of the ancient province of Musashi (Japanese: 武 蔵 ) (now Tokyo and northern Kanagawa prefecture), through which the Nambu Line runs. "Rapid" service trains (two trains per hour between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m) do not stop at Shitte, Yakō, Hirama, Mukaigawara, Tsudayama, Kuji, Shukugawara, Nakanoshima, Yanokuchi, Minami-Tama, Nishifu, Yaho, Yagawa, or Nishi-Kunitachi. All other trains except for some seasonal services are "Local" services, stopping at all stations. The "Shitte crossover" ( 尻手短絡線 , Shitte-tanraku-sen ) connects Shitte Station and Shin-Tsurumi Yard on

176-517: The Tama River . When the railway reached Tachikawa and made connection with the Ōme Electric Railway , limestone became one of the main freight commodities. The railway was controlled by Asano zaibatsu , which enabled the transport of limestone from its own quarry in Western Tokyo to its cement plant in Kawasaki without using the government railways. On 1 April 1944, the railway was nationalised by

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192-529: The Tōkaidō Main Line ( Hinkaku Line ) and the Musashino Line . Freight trains operating between Tokyo Freight Terminal and northern Japan operate on both branch lines. As of 1 October 2016 the following fleet of electric multiple unit (EMU) trains is used on Nambu Line services, with all trainsets based at Nakahara Depot. From 15 March 2017, the last remaining 209 series trainset, set 53,

208-553: The imperial government and became the Nambu Line of Japanese Government Railways . After the end of World War II , there were several calls for the privatisation of the line, but the line remained a part of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) until its privatization in 1987. The postwar growth of the Tokyo urban area resulted in the conversion of most of the farmlands along the Nambu Line into residential areas and increased

224-546: The passenger traffic on the line. Freight traffic reduced after the opening of the Musashino Line (parallel to the Nambu Line) in 1976 and the discontinuance of the limestone freight in 1998, except for the Nambu Branchline, which remains a major freight route. Limited-stop "Rapid" services between Kawasaki and Noborito with stops at Musashi-Kosugi and Musashi-Mizonokuchi started on 15 December 1969, but were discontinued by

240-407: The timetable revision on 2 October 1978. After 33 years, Rapid services between Kawasaki and Tachikawa with more stops started on 9 April 2011, postponed from the originally scheduled 12 March due to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami . On 20 August 2016, station numbering was introduced with Nambu line stations being assigned station numbers between JN01 and JN26. Numbers increase towards in

256-400: Was replaced by a six-car Ome Line and Itsukaichi Line E233-0 series set 670 modified and renumbered to become E233-8500 series set N36. The private Nambu Railway opened the line in five stages between 1927 and 1930 (freight branches are omitted): Passenger trains utilised electric multiple units (EMUs) from the beginning. Freight initially consisted primarily of gravel hauled from

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