Tachikawa [city] - Tachikawa

Japanese: 立川[市] - たちかわ

A city located in the Musashino Plateau in central Tokyo. It was incorporated as a city in 1940. The central city area was the castle site of the Tachikawa clan, one of the seven clans of Musashi in the Middle Ages, a key location on the Kamakura Kaido road, and a post town on the Koshu Kaido road in the early modern period. Since an army airfield was established in 1922, it has rapidly developed, and during World War II it was a center of aircraft production. It is served by the Chuo Line and Seibu Haijima Line, and the Ome Line and Nambu Line branch off from it, making it a commercial and residential city that is at the center of the Tama area. Electrical equipment and transportation equipment industries are active here. The area around the airfield became a US military base after World War II, and there were many base issues, such as the Sunagawa Incident from 1955 to 1957, but it was returned in its entirety in 1977. The former site is now a Ground Self-Defense Force garrison, a wide-area disaster prevention base, and Showa Memorial Park (1983). ^{24.36 km2} . 179,668 people (2010).
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東京都中部，武蔵野台地にある市。1940年市制。中心市街は中世の武蔵七党の一族立川氏の居城地，鎌倉街道の要地，近世の甲州街道の宿場町であった。1922年陸軍の飛行場が設置されて以後急速に発展，第２次大戦中は航空機生産の一中心であった。中央本線，西武拝島線が通じ，青梅線，南武線が分岐し，多摩地区の一中心をなす商業・住宅都市になっている。電気機器・輸送用機器工業などが行われる。飛行場一帯は第２次大戦後米軍基地となり，1955年−1957年砂川事件が起きるなど基地問題が多かったが，1977年全面返還。跡地は陸上自衛隊駐屯地，広域防災基地，昭和記念公園（1983年）となっている。24.36km²。17万9668人（2010）。
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