Machida, Tokyo
Encyclopedia
is a city
located in the western part of the greater metropolis of Tokyo
, Japan
. The city was founded on February 1, 1958.
As of October 1, 2010, the city has an estimated population
of 424,669 and a population density
of 5,928.65 persons per km². The total area is 71.63 km². Machida is also the home of Obirin University
.
Tōkyū Den-en-toshi Line
Yokohama Line
Keiō Sagamihara Line
Tokyo Metropolitan Government Board of Education
operates the following public high schools.
Machida also has the following private high schools.
Cities of Japan
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located in the western part of the greater metropolis of Tokyo
Tokyo
, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
, Japan
Japan
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. The city was founded on February 1, 1958.
As of October 1, 2010, the city has an estimated population
Population
A population is all the organisms that both belong to the same group or species and live in the same geographical area. The area that is used to define a sexual population is such that inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with individuals...
of 424,669 and a population density
Population density
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of 5,928.65 persons per km². The total area is 71.63 km². Machida is also the home of Obirin University
Obirin University
is a private university in Machida, Tokyo, Japan. The university's name was derived from that of pastor and philanthropist J. F. Oberlin, and the name also shows the university's historical ties with Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, which the university's founders attended...
.
Railway Stations
Odakyū Odawara Line- - - - -
Tōkyū Den-en-toshi Line
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Yokohama Line
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Though Hashimoto, Sagamihara, Yabe, Fuchinobe, Kobuchi Station are in Sagamihara, KanagawaSagamihara, Kanagawais a city located in north central Kanagawa Prefecture, bordering Tokyo, Japan. It is the third most populous city in the prefecture, after Yokohama and Kawasaki, and the fifth most populous suburb of Greater Tokyo. Its northern neighbor is Machida, with which a cross-prefectural merger has been...
, They are near the city border.
Keiō Sagamihara Line
Keio Sagamihara Line
The is a Japanese railway line operated by Keio Corporation, connecting Hashimoto Station in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture and Chōfu Station in Chōfu, Tokyo.-History:...
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Education
Machida operates its public elementary and junior high schools.Tokyo Metropolitan Government Board of Education
Tokyo Metropolitan Government Board of Education
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government Board of Education is the board of education in Tokyo, Japan. The board manages the individual school systems within the metropolis. The board also directly manages all of the public high schools in Tokyo...
operates the following public high schools.
- Machida High SchoolMachida High Schoolis a Japanese high school in Machida, Tokyo originally founded as the private Machida Women School in 1929....
- Machida Sogo High School
- Machida Technical High School
- Naruse High School
- Nozuta High School
- Ogawa High School
- Yamasaki High School
Machida also has the following private high schools.
- Nihon University 3rd High School
- Obirin High School
- Tamagawa University High School
List of mayors
- Tokichiro Aoyama (1958–1970)
- Katsumasa Oshita (1970–1990)
- Kazuo Terada (1990–2006)
- Joichi Ishizaka (2006–2010)
Notable residents and people from Machida
- Satoshi TajiriSatoshi Tajiriis a Japanese video game designer best known as the creator of Pokémon and the founder of development company Game Freak, Inc. An avid fan of arcade games, Tajiri wrote for and edited his own video gaming fanzine Game Freak with Ken Sugimori, before evolving it into a development company of the...
, the creator of Pokémon, who also based Pallet Town on this town in the original Pokémon Red and BluePokémon Red and BluePokémon Red Version and Blue Version, originally released in Japan as , are role-playing games developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy. They are the first installments to the Pokémon series. They were first released in Japan in 1996 as Red and Green, with Blue being...
. - Ami OnukiAmi Onukiis a member of the pop group PUFFY.She has co-hosted several Japanese TV shows with the "cool" half of PUFFY, Yumi Yoshimura, including the talk show Pa-Pa-Pa-Pa-Puffy, part of a morning show called Saku-Saku, and the 2006 series Hi Hi Puffy Bu, in which Ami and Yumi perform one given task each...
, Half of the J-pop group Puffy