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24-595: Kumagaya is one of the largest cities in northern Saitama Prefecture. About two-thirds of the city area is located between the Tone River and the Arakawa River alluvial fan , approximately 60 km from central Tokyo and 45 km from the prefectural capital at Saitama City . The highest point in the city is Mikajiri Kannon, which is located on the Kushibiki plateau at an altitude of 83.3 meters. The city

48-477: A 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) stretch. The river provides some of the best white water rafting and kayaking in Japan. The snow melt swells the river to grade 4 in spring; in the summer it is a gentle grade 2. The Momijikyo section has 7 grade 3-4 rapids for 1 kilometer (0.62 mi) and is 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) long in total. The Tone River is home to Japan's longest car free cycling path. At over 220km long

72-506: A diameter of 29.5 centimetres and weighed 3.4 kilograms. The Japan Meteorological Agency maintains a local meteorological observatory in Kumagaya. Per Japanese census data, the population of Kumagaya peaked around the year 2000 and has declined since. Kumagaya was part of ancient Musashi Province and was controlled by various samurai clans from the Heian period . One of these clans,

96-712: A result of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster radioactive cesium concentrations of 110 becquerels per kilogram were found in silver crucian carp fish caught in the Tone River in April 2012. The river is 180 kilometres (110 mi) from the Fukushima Daiichi Plant. Six fishery cooperatives and 10 towns along the river were asked to stop all shipments of fish caught in the Tone. The Tone River

120-747: 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

144-637: Is twinned with: Tone River The Tone River ( 利根川 , Tone-gawa ) is a river in the Kantō region of Japan . It is 322 kilometers (200 mi) in length (the second longest in Japan after the Shinano ) and has a drainage area of 16,840 square kilometers (6,500 sq mi) (the largest in Japan). It is nicknamed Bandō Tarō ( 坂東太郎 ); Bandō is an obsolete alias of the Kantō Region , and Tarō

168-556: 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

192-529: Is a major industrial and commercial center within northern Saitama. Eight national highways and three railway lines serve the city. While many people commute towards south Tokyo, its daytime population is larger than the night population thanks to commuters from surrounding towns. [REDACTED] JR East – Joetsu Shinkansen [REDACTED] JR East – JR East - Takasaki Line [REDACTED] Chichibu Railway - Chichibu Main Line Kumagaya

216-677: 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 is listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange (it formerly had secondary listings in

240-812: Is a popular given name for an oldest son. It is regarded as one of the "Three Greatest Rivers" of Japan, the others being the Yoshino in Shikoku and the Chikugo in Kyūshū . The source of the Tone River is at Mount Ōminakami   [ Wikidata ] ( 大水上山 ) (1,831 meters (6,007 ft)) in the Echigo Mountains , which straddle the border between Gunma and Niigata Prefectures in Jōshin'etsu Kōgen National Park . The Tone gathers tributaries and pours into

264-577: Is hard to trace its ancient route, but it originally flowed into Tokyo Bay along the route of the present-day Edo River , and tributaries like the Watarase and Kinu had independent river systems. For the sake of water transportation and flood control, extensive construction began in the 17th century during the Tokugawa shogunate , when the Kantō region became the political center of Japan. The course of

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288-644: Is known for being one of the hottest areas in summer in Japan. This is caused by very hot winds from Tokyo and the Chichibu basin in the west of the prefecture. In central Tokyo, the summer monsoon enhanced by sea breeze is heated by the urban heat island . Also, from the Chichibu Mountains, the Föhn blows. The two winds converge above the city at about 2 p.m. On August 16, 2007, the city recorded air temperature of 40.9 °C (105.6 °F), breaking

312-641: Is known for its abundant and high quality ground water. Gunma Prefecture Saitama Prefecture Kumagaya has a humid subtropical climate ( Köppen climate classification : Cfa ) characterized by warm summers and cool winters with light to no snowfall. The average annual temperature in Kumagaya is 14.0 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1532 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 25.8 °C, and lowest in January, at around 2.4 °C. Kumagaya

336-583: 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,

360-577: 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 was nominally "privatization", as the company was actually

384-642: The Pacific Ocean at Cape Inubō , Choshi in Chiba Prefecture . Major tributaries of the Tone River include the Agatsuma , Watarase , Kinu , Omoi , and the Kokai River   [ Wikidata ] . The Edo River branches away from the river and flows into Tokyo Bay . The Tone River was once known for its uncontrollable nature, and its route changed whenever floods occurred. It

408-493: The 74-year record for the highest temperature recorded in Japan. "Very Hot! Kumagaya" ( あついぞ！熊谷 ) is a catchphrase of the city. On July 23, 2018, the national record was broken again with a temperature of 41.1 °C (106.0 °F), surpassing the previous record of 41.0 °C (105.8 °F) recorded in Kōchi Prefecture in August 2013. There was a large hailstorm on June 29, 1917 at about 5 p.m. The hailstones had

432-624: The Kumagaya clan, rose to prominence during the Kamakura period . During the Edo Period , the area was divided between the holdings of Oshi Domain and tenryō territory under direct control of the Tokugawa shogunate . Kumagai-shuku developed as a post town on the Nakasendō highway during this period. After the Meiji restoration , the town of Kumagaya was established with the creation of

456-700: The Tone River Cycling Road 利根川サイクリングロード starts in Shibukawa City, Gunma and runs all the way to Choshi City, Chiba. The total route is over 230km but the final 10km or so into Choshi is on a road. The remaining 220km is on detached cycling paths high up on the river bank with great views of mountains while in Gunma and large rice fields and agriculture as you approach the ocean. [REDACTED] Media related to Tone River at Wikimedia Commons JR East The East Japan Railway Company

480-700: 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

504-585: The modern municipalities system on April 1, 1889. Kumagaya has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral city council of 30 members. Kumagaya contributes three members to the Saitama Prefectural Assembly. In terms of national politics, the city is divided between the Saitama 11th district and Saitama 12th district of the lower house of the Diet of Japan . November 6, 2021 to present Kumagaya

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528-618: The river has several dams that supply water for more than 30 million inhabitants of metropolitan Tokyo and large-scale industrial areas such as the Keiyō Industrial Zone . The Minakami onsen area in Gunma Prefecture is near the source for the Tone River and during the spring snow melt period, April–June, the river provides consistent grade 4 rapids (on the International Scale of River Difficulty ) over

552-486: The river was significantly changed, and the present route of the river was determined during the Meiji period , with the assistance of Dutch civil engineer Anthonie Rouwenhorst Mulder . Its vast watershed is thus largely artificial. Two ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy were named after the river, one of World War I vintage and another from World War II , the lead ship of its class . As

576-581: Was an indispensable inland water link between the capitol at Edo , and later Tokyo, to the Pacific Ocean. It carried not only local products like soy sauce from Choshi , but also products from the Tōhoku region , in order to save time and to avoid risk in the open sea. With the advent of the railway in the 19th century major shipping on the Tone quickly declined, and inland ports such as Noda , Sekiyado , now part of Noda, Nagareyama , and Sawara , now part of Katori diminished in importance. Today

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