Fujino ( 藤野町 , Fujino-chō ) was a town located in Tsukui District , Kanagawa Prefecture , Japan .
21-492: Sagamihara ( 相模原市 , Sagamihara-shi ) is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture , Japan. As of 1 May 2021, the city has an estimated population of 723,470, with 334,812 households, and a population density of 1,220 persons per km. The total area of the city is 328.91 square kilometres (126.99 sq mi). Sagamihara is the third-most-populous city in the prefecture, after Yokohama and Kawasaki , and
42-662: A mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral city council of 49 members. Sagamihara contributes eight members to the Kanagawa Prefectural Assembly. In terms of national politics, the city is divided between the Kanagawa 14th district and Kanagawa 16th district of the lower house of the Diet of Japan . In terms of economy and geography such as railroads and roads, Sagamihara has stronger ties with Tokyo than other cities in
63-529: Is 12.6 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1906 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 23.9 °C, and lowest in January, at around 1.2 °C. Per Japanese census data, the population of Sagamihara has grown steadily over the past 70 years. The area of modern Sagamihara has been settled since ancient times, and has a number of remains from
84-481: Is approved by the prefectural governor and the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications . A city can theoretically be demoted to a town or village when it fails to meet any of these conditions, but such a demotion has not happened to date. The least populous city, Utashinai, Hokkaido , has a population of three thousand, while a town in the same prefecture, Otofuke, Hokkaido , has over forty thousand. Under
105-609: The Imperial Japanese Army during the 1930s. These villages were merged on April 29, 1941, together with neighboring Zama Town to create Sagamihara Town. At the time of its formation, it was the largest town in Japan in terms of area. On September 1, 1948, Zama was administratively separated into Zama Town. The remaining portion became Sagamihara City on November 20, 1954. The city population had grown steadily, partly due to local industrial development, and partly due to
126-775: The JR East Yokohama Line and Keio Sagamihara Line ; Sagamihara Station on the Yokohama Line; and Sagami-Ōno Station on the Odakyu Odawara Line . Western Sagamihara is within the Tanzawa Mountains . Kanagawa Prefecture Tokyo Yamanashi Prefecture Sagamihara has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa ) characterized by warm summers and cool winters with light to no snowfall. The average annual temperature in Sagamihara
147-761: The Japanese Paleolithic period and Kofun period have been found. It was home to the Yokoyama clan, one of the seven warrior clans of the Musashi region during the early Kamakura period . During the Edo period , the lands around Sagamihara were tenryō territory theoretically administered directly by the Tokugawa Shogunate in Edo ; however, in reality, the area was a patchwork of small fiefs held by various hatamoto , as well as exclaves under
168-451: The "city code" ( shisei , 市制) of 1888 during the "Great Meiji mergers" ( Meiji no daigappei , 明治の大合併) of 1889. The -shi replaced the previous urban districts /"wards/cities" (-ku) that had existed as primary subdivisions of prefectures besides rural districts (-gun) since 1878. Initially, there were 39 cities in 1889: only one in most prefectures, two in a few (Yamagata, Toyama, Osaka, Hyōgo, Fukuoka), and none in some – Miyazaki became
189-456: The Act on Special Provisions concerning Merger of Municipalities ( 市町村の合併の特例等に関する法律 , Act No. 59 of 2004) , the standard of 50,000 inhabitants for the city status has been eased to 30,000 if such population is gained as a result of a merger of towns and/or villages , in order to facilitate such mergers to reduce administrative costs. Many municipalities gained city status under this eased standard. On
210-447: The amalgamation, the town had an estimated population of 10,720 and a density of 165.15 persons per km . The total area was 64.91 km . On March 11, 2007, Fujino, along with the town of Shiroyama (also from Tsukui District ), was merged into the expanded city of Sagamihara , and thus no longer exists as an independent municipality . It is now part of Midori-ku, Sagamihara . This Kanagawa Prefecture location article
231-542: The city's excellent transportation infrastructure connecting it to Yokohama , Tokyo and Hachiōji . It was designated a core city with increased autonomy in 2003. On March 20, 2006, Sagamihara absorbed the towns of Tsukui and Sagamiko (both from Tsukui District ). The merged city consisted of two geographically separate areas, as two other towns of Tsukui District ( Fujino and Shiroyama ) elected to remain separate. A further merger on March 11, 2007, joined Fujino and Shiroyama with Sagamihara, thus geographically unifying
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#1732772381923252-413: The city, and dissolving former Tsukui District. In 2007, the population of Sagamihara exceeded 700,000. In 2010, Sagamihara was redesignated as a government ordinance city and split into three wards Midori-ku, Chūō-ku, and Minami-ku. On July 25, 2016, 19 people were killed and 26 injured in a mass stabbing incident at a disabled care home in the city by Satoshi Uematsu, the perpetrator. Sagamihara has
273-560: The control of the Ogino-Yamanaka Domain and Karasuyama Domain. After the Meiji Restoration , the eastern portion was part of Kōza District , and the western portion was part of Tsukui District . The Kōza District portion was administratively divided into six villages on April 1, 1889 with the creation of the modern municipalities system. The area was the location of extensive training facilities and arsenals of
294-561: The fifth most populous suburb of the Greater Tokyo Area . Its northern neighbor is Machida , with which a cross-prefectural merger has been proposed. On April 1, 2010, the city became the 19th city designated by government ordinance . As a result of this, three wards were established: Midori-ku , Chūō-ku and Minami-ku . Sagamihara covers a large area of northwestern Kanagawa Prefecture. The main areas of commercial activity in Sagamihara are located near Hashimoto Station on
315-542: The last prefecture to contain its first city in 1924. In Okinawa -ken and Hokkai-dō which were not yet fully equal prefectures in the Empire, major urban settlements remained organized as urban districts until the 1920s: Naha-ku and Shuri-ku, the two urban districts of Okinawa were only turned into Naha -shi and Shuri-shi in May 1921, and six -ku of Hokkaidō were converted into district-independent cities in August 1922. By 1945,
336-487: The number of cities countrywide had increased to 205. After WWII , their number almost doubled during the "great Shōwa mergers" of the 1950s and continued to grow so that it surpassed the number of towns in the early 21st century (see the List of mergers and dissolutions of municipalities in Japan ). As of October 1 2018, there are 792 cities of Japan. Fujino, Kanagawa As of March 1, 2007, final population data before
357-448: The other hand, the municipalities recently gained the city status purely as a result of increase of population without expansion of area are limited to those listed in List of former towns or villages gained city status alone in Japan . The Cabinet of Japan can designate cities of at least 200,000 inhabitants to have the status of core city , or designated city . These statuses expand the scope of administrative authority delegated from
378-547: The prefectural government to the city government. Tokyo , Japan's capital, existed as a city until 1943, but is now legally classified as a special type of prefecture called a metropolis ( 都 , to ) . The 23 special wards of Tokyo , which constitute the core of the Tokyo metropolitan area, each have an administrative status analogous to that of cities. Tokyo also has several other incorporated cities, towns and villages within its jurisdiction. Cities were introduced under
399-461: The prefecture, especially with the Tama area such as Machida and Hachioji. In addition, it is positioned by the national government as the core of the southwestern part of the Tokyo metropolitan area. However, due to the successive withdrawal of large factories in the city, the aspect of Sagimahara as a commuter town has become stronger, and the percentage of commuters to work and school in Tokyo in 2015
420-538: The same level as towns ( 町 , machi ) and villages ( 村 , mura ) , with the difference that they are not a component of districts ( 郡 , gun ) . Like other contemporary administrative units, they are defined by the Local Autonomy Law of 1947. Article 8 of the Local Autonomy Law sets the following conditions for a municipality to be designated as a city: The designation
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