Tanashi [city] - Tanashi

Japanese: 田無[市] - たなし

An old city in central Tokyo. It was incorporated as a city in 1967. In January 2001, it merged with neighboring Hoya City to the east and was renamed Nishitokyo City. Located on the Musashino Plateau, the city center developed as a post town on the Ome Kaido road. With the opening of the Seibu Railway in 1927, it rapidly became a residential area. Since the 1960s, large housing estates such as Hibarigaoka have been built on the site of former munitions factories, straddling the old Hoya City and Higashikurume City, and it has developed into a residential and industrial district on the outskirts of Tokyo. It is home to the University of Tokyo Faculty of Agriculture Farm. Area: 6.80 ^km2 . Population: 75,997 (1998).

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Japanese:

東京都中部の旧市。1967年市制。2001年１月東隣の保谷市と合併して西東京市と改称。武蔵野台地にあり，中心市街は青梅街道の宿場町として発達。1927年西武鉄道の開通とともに急速に住宅地化した。1960年代以降，軍需工場跡地に旧保谷市，東久留米市にまたがってひばりが丘などの大住宅団地が建設され，都の近郊住宅地，工場地区として発展している。東大農学部付属農場がある。6.80km²。７万5997人（1998）。

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