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17-729: Kunitachi is located in the Musashino Terrace of central Tokyo Metropolis. Kunitachi is known for its broad main avenue, Daigaku Dori (University Avenue). This cherry-tree -lined boulevard stretches from Kunitachi Station on the Chūō Main Line toward the banks of the Tama River . Tokyo Metropolis Kunitachi has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa ) characterized by warm summers and cool winters with light to no snowfall. The average annual temperature in Kunitachi

34-449: A regional geological feature is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Table (landform) A tableland 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,

51-478: A route that connected Edo with Kofu in the province of Kai (present-day Yamanashi Prefecture ). The area was noted for its abundant spring water. The villages of Ishida, Aoyagi and Yabo were created within Tama District of Kanagawa Prefecture during the establishment of the modern municipalities system on April 1, 1889. The district was transferred from Kanagawa to Tokyo in 1893. In the 1920, much of

68-530: Is 13.9 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1647 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 25.4 °C, and lowest in January, at around 2.5 °C. Per Japanese census data, the population of Kunitachi expanded rapidly in the postwar decades and has continued to grow at a slower rate since then. Kunitachi lies along the historical Kōshū Kaidō ,

85-601: 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 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

102-731: 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 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

119-653: The Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly. In terms of national politics, the city is part of Tokyo 21st district of the lower house of the Diet of Japan . Kunitachi remains a university town, but is also increasing a commuter town for central Tokyo, with an estimated 25.1% of the population commuting to central Tokyo daily, per the 2015 census. Tertiary: The city was originally home to the Kunitachi College of Music . The tertiary-level branch of

136-1028: The conservatory is now located far outside the city, but its attached high school and business affiliate, Kunitachi Gakki (Western Tokyo's largest community music center), remain in central Kunitachi. The city has two public high schools operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Board of Education . Kunitachi has eight public elementary schools and three junior high schools operated by the city government. Municipal junior high schools: Municipal elementary schools: There are also three private high schools. There are also three private elementary schools and one private junior high school. [REDACTED] JR East – Chūō Main Line [REDACTED] JR East – Nambu Line Musashino Terrace The Musashino Plateau ( 武蔵野台地 , Musashino daichi ) , also translated from Japanese as Musashino Platform and also named Musashino Region ,

153-459: 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

170-595: 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 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

187-412: 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

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204-499: 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

221-499: The land was obtained by Kojiro Tsutsumi, the founder of Seibu , who began large-scale development of a planned community , which he intended to become a university town modeled after Göttingen in Germany. The Tokyo University of Commerce ( Hitotsubashi University ) was relocated from central Tokyo to this location, and a train station was opened on Chūō Main Line in 1926. The station was named "Kunitachi", taking one kanji from

238-440: 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 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

255-408: The names of the stations to either side, namely Kokubunji Station and Tachikawa Station . The three villages were merged to form Kunitachi town in 1951. Kunitachi was elevated to city status on January 1, 1967. Kunitachi has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral city council of 22 members. Kunitachi, together with Kokubunji, contributes two members to

272-426: 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,

289-565: The wind carried west from Mount Fuji . Two types of developed fluvial terraces (river terraces) are found on the plateau. One is formed by 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

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