Hino ( 日野市 , Hino-shi ) is a city located in the western portion of the Tokyo Metropolis , Japan . As of 1 April 2021 , the city had an estimated population of 187,048, and a population density of 6800 persons per km². The total area of the city was 27.55 square kilometres (10.64 sq mi).
14-730: The Keiō Dōbutsuen line ( 京王動物園線 , Keiō Dōbutsuen-sen ) is a railway line in Hino, Tokyo , Japan, owned by the Keio Corporation , which connects Takahatafudō on the Keiō Main Line and Tama-Dōbutsukōen (for Tama Zoo and the Keio Rail-Land railway amusement park). It is a single track of 1,372 mm ( 4 ft 6 in ) gauge. The line is electrified at 1,500 V DC. The line opened on 29 April 1964. "Wanman" one-person operation started in 2000. The line experienced
28-691: A directly elected mayor and a unicameral city council of 24 members. Hino contributes two members to the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly. In terms of national politics, the city is part of Tokyo 21st district of the lower house of the Diet of Japan . Hino is largely a regional commercial center and bedroom community for central Tokyo. Hino is the hometown of Orient Watch Co., Ltd. established in 1950 by Shogoro Yoshida. On December 22, 2008, operations of Seiko Epson 's Tokyo sales office began at Seiko Epson's Hino Office. Previously operations were at
42-599: A drop in ridership numbers following the closure of the Tama Tech theme park in 2009. In 2011, operation switched from 6000 series to 7000 series trainsets. Hino, Tokyo Hino is in Western Tokyo . The city has three geographical regions. The western part is called the Hino plateau, approximately 100 meters above sea level . The southern part is Tama Hills , between 150 and 200 meters above sea level. The eastern part of
56-673: A fictional Hino City, at the same geographic location. JR East The East Japan Railway Company is a major passenger railway company in Japan and the largest of the seven Japan Railways Group companies. The company name is officially abbreviated as JR-EAST or JR East in English, and as JR Higashi-Nihon ( JR東日本 , Jeiāru Higashi-Nihon ) in Japanese. The company's headquarters are in Yoyogi , Shibuya , Tokyo , next to Shinjuku Station . It
70-537: Is a front for a revolutionary political organization called the Japan Revolutionary Communist League (Revolutionary Marxist Faction) . An investigation of this is ongoing. The East Japan Railway Culture Foundation is a non-profit organization established by JR East for the purpose of developing a "richer railway culture". The Railway Museum in Saitama is operated by the foundation. JR East held
84-644: Is listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange (it formerly had secondary listings in the Nagoya and Osaka stock exchanges), is a constituent of the TOPIX Large70 index, and is one of three Japan Railways Group constituents of the Nikkei 225 index, the others being JR Central and JR West . JR East was incorporated on 1 April 1987 after being spun off from the government-run Japanese National Railways (JNR). The spin-off
98-627: Is owned and operated by the Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central), although it stops at several JR East stations. These lines have sections inside the Tokyo suburban area (Japanese: 東京近郊区間 ) designated by JR East. This does not necessarily mean that the lines are fully inside the Greater Tokyo Area . Below is the full list of limited express and express train services operated on JR East lines as of 2022. During fiscal 2017,
112-610: The World Trade Center in Minato, Tokyo . Hino also houses the headquarters of Hino Motors , a Toyota Group company producing semi-trailer trucks (British and Irish: articulated lorries), box trucks and buses. There are three metropolitan high schools operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Board of Education . Hino has 17 municipal elementary schools and eight public junior high schools operated by
126-571: The Hino City Board of Education. Municipal junior high schools: Municipal elementary schools: [REDACTED] JR East – JR East – Chūō Main Line [REDACTED] Keio Corporation - Keio Corporation – Keiō Line [REDACTED] Keio Corporation - Keio Corporation – Keiō Dōbutsuen Line [REDACTED] Tokyo Tama Intercity Monorail - Tama Toshi Monorail Line The manga and anime series My Deer Friend Nokotan takes place in
140-684: The busiest stations in the JR East network by average daily passenger count were: JR East co-sponsors the JEF United Chiba J-League football club , which was formed by a merger between the JR East and Furukawa Electric company teams. JR East aims to reduce its carbon emissions by half, as measured over the period 1990–2030. This would be achieved by increasing the efficiency of trains and company-owned thermal power stations and by developing hybrid trains . The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department has stated that JR East's official union
154-642: The city is an alluvial plain of the Tama River . Tokyo Metropolis Hino has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa ) characterized by warm summers and cool winters with light to no snowfall. The average annual temperature in Hino is 13.9 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1647 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 25.4 °C, and lowest in January, at around 2.9 °C. Per Japanese census data,
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#1733093949499168-417: The jurisdiction of Minamitama District. The entire district was transferred to the control of Tokyo Prefecture on April 1, 1893, at which time Hino-juku was proclaimed Hino Town under the modern municipalities system. The area of the town expanded through annexation of neighboring villages in 1901 and 1958. On November 3, 1963, Hino was elevated to city status. Hino has a mayor-council form of government with
182-553: The population of Hino increased rapidly in the late 20th century and has continued to grow at a slower pace since. The area of present-day Hino was part of ancient Musashi Province . During the Edo period , the village of Hino developed as a post station on the Kōshū Kaidō . In the post- Meiji Restoration cadastral reform of 1871, Hino-juku became part of Kanagawa Prefecture . In the reorganization of districts in 1889, Hino-juku came under
196-734: Was nominally "privatization", as the company was actually a wholly owned subsidiary of the government-owned JNR Settlement Corporation for several years, and was not completely sold to the public until 2002. Following the breakup, JR East ran the operations on former JNR lines in the Greater Tokyo Area , the Tōhoku region , and surrounding areas. Railway lines of JR East primarily serve the Kanto and Tohoku regions , along with adjacent areas in Kōshin'etsu region ( Niigata , Nagano , Yamanashi ) and Shizuoka prefectures . The Tokyo–Osaka Tōkaidō Shinkansen
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