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18-662: Chōfu is approximately in the south-center of Tokyo Metropolis, approximately 20 kilometers west from downtown Tokyo, on the Musashino Terrace bordered by the floodplains of the Tama River and the Iruma River . Tokyo Metropolis Kanagawa Prefecture Chōfu has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa ) characterized by warm summers and cool winters with light to no snowfall. The average annual temperature in Chōfu

36-633: A bedroom community ("bed town" ベッドタウン, beddotaun) for central Tokyo. The headquarters of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) are also located in the city. [REDACTED] Keio Corporation - Keiō Line [REDACTED] Keio Corporation - Keiō Sagamihara Line Colleges and universities: Primary and secondary education Metropolitan high schools: Municipal junior high schools: Municipal elementary schools: Private schools: The Chōfu City Fireworks Festival, attended by as many as 300,000 people along

54-537: A large alluvial fan that spread out from Ōme . The fan is the base layer of the Musashino Plateau, and is covered by the Kantō Loam Formation, which is 5 to 15 meters thick. The loam is primarily andesite or basaltic sandy mud formed from volcanic ash that the wind carried west from Mount Fuji . Two types of developed fluvial terraces (river terraces) are found on the plateau. One is formed by

72-427: A type of tableland. A homologous landform under the sea is called either a tablemount or guyot . Sedimentary tablelands are tablelands that typically have developed from the erosion of coarse-grained, clastic, sedimentary rocks in the form of relatively flat-lying sandstones and conglomerates that have not been strongly deformed by tectonics . The primary control on the geomorphology of sedimentary tablelands

90-590: Is 14.5 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1647 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 26.0 °C, and lowest in January, at around 3.1 °C. Per Japanese census data, the population of Chōfu has grown steadily over the past century, and increased especially rapidly in the 1950s and 1960s. The area of present-day Chōfu has been inhabited since Japanese Paleolithic times, and numerous remains from

108-523: Is an area containing elevated landforms characterized by a distinct, flat, nearly level, or gently undulating surface. They often exhibit steep, cliff-like edges, known as escarpments , that separate them from surrounding lowlands. Depending on either their size, other physical characteristics, or geographic location, the landforms comprising a tableland are individually referred to by a number of names including either butte , mesa , plateau , potrero , tepui , or tuya . Table Mountains are also

126-408: Is the dip of the layers of the sandstones, conglomerates, and associated sedimentary strata . Sedimentary tablelands only form if the dip of the sedimentary layers is negligible. If the sedimentary layers are tilted, although otherwise little deformed, asymmetric ridges known as cuestas develop. A really extensive sedimentary tablelands are often known as plateaus . As plateaus are dissected by

144-715: The Jōmon , Yayoi and Kofun periods have been discovered. During the Nara period , it became part of ancient Musashi Province . During the Sengoku period , the area was frequently contested between the Later Hōjō clan and Uesugi clan . During the Edo period , the area prospered as a post station on the Kōshū Kaidō and as a center for sericulture . The origin of the city name "Chōfu" comes from

162-665: The ancient Tama River, covered by a layer of loam formed from volcanic ash . The plateau is part of the Kantō Plain . It sits northwest of Tokyo Bay , in the southwest of the plain. Its northern section is in southern Saitama Prefecture . Much of Tokyo , between the Tama River to the south and the Arakawa River to the north, is built on the plateau. The Tama River carved the Okutama Mountains and deposited

180-487: The banks of the Tamagawa River. Chōfu has a large cultural centre that supports many groups encouraging the integration of foreigners into Japanese society, providing free Japanese, Shodo , Ikebana , Karate (and many other) lessons. There is a park and memorial hall commemorating the life of novelist Mushanokōji Saneatsu , a former resident of Chōfu. For the 1964 Summer Olympics , the city served as part of

198-459: The erosion of duricrusts are also quite common in parts of Australia and South America. In addition, the eruption of either lava or pyroclastic flows can deposit a solid surface layer of volcanic rock that is relatively flat. As in case of the duricrusts, the resulting lava or pyroclastic flows are sufficiently tough to form the flat-lying caprock of tablelands when breached and incised by rivers and streams. This article related to topography

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216-496: The fact that it was allowed to pay taxes in cloth instead of in rice. In the post- Meiji Restoration cadastral reform of April 1, 1889, Chōfu Town and neighboring Jindai Village were established within Kanagawa Prefecture . The entire district was transferred to the control of Tokyo Metropolis on April 1, 1893. Jindai was elevated to town status on November 3, 1952, and merged with Chōfu Town on April 1, 1955, to form

234-545: The flow of the Tama River on the south side. The lowest terrace (low surface) is the Tachikawa terrace, and the terrace one step higher than that (high surface) is the Musashino terrace. The other is in the north and is thought to be a remnant of the former Tama River channel. This article about a regional geological feature is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Table (landform) A tableland

252-412: The formation of a thick indurated surface layer duricrust by deep weathering beneath a relatively flat surface. Second, the breaching and incision of the duricrust layer by rivers or streams. Finally, the inward migration of valley walls and escarpments by slope erosion and denudation of mesas and buttes. An example of such tablelands is the laterite-capped Panchgani Tableland of India. Tablelands formed by

270-499: The headward erosion and incision of river and stream courses and the retreat of their bounding escarpments, plateaus are fragmented into tablelands of smaller and smaller extent known as mesas , buttes , or pinnacles . Further erosion eventually reduces these landforms to piles of bouderly rubble as known as rock labyrinths . The tepui of South America are a type of sedimentary tableland composed of erosional outliers of flat-lying Precambrian quartz arenite sandstone that tower over

288-558: The present city of Chōfu. Chōfu has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral city council of 28 members. Chōfu, together with the city of Komae, contributes three members to the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly. In terms of national politics, the city is part of Tokyo 22nd district of the lower house of the Diet of Japan . Chōfu is primarily a regional commercial center, and

306-525: The route for the athletic 50-kilometer walk and marathon events. Musashino Terrace The Musashino Plateau ( 武蔵野台地 , Musashino daichi ) , also translated from Japanese as Musashino Platform and also named Musashino Region , is a large tableland that sits between the Arakawa and Tama rivers in the Kantō region of Honshu , Japan . The plateau consists of an alluvial fan formed by

324-426: The surrounding jungle underlain by crystalline basement rocks. Flat-lying, coarse-grained, clastic sedimentary rocks are not the only layered rocks that serve as the caprock that form the surface of tablelands. Flat-lying duricrusts and volcanic rocks also form the caprock of various tablelands. In case of duricrusts, e.g. laterite or silcrete , the formation of tablelands involves a three stage process. First,

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