was a
city
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located in the western portion of
Tokyo Metropolis,
Japan
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.
At the time of its merger, the city had an estimated
population of 102,720 and a
density of 11,350 persons per km². The total area was 9.05 km².
The area of modern Hōya was an agricultural region and agricultural products transshipment center for
Edo
Edo ( ja, , , "bay-entrance" or "estuary"), also romanized as Jedo, Yedo or Yeddo, is the former name of Tokyo.
Edo, formerly a ''jōkamachi'' (castle town) centered on Edo Castle located in Musashi Province, became the ''de facto'' capital of ...
in the premodern period, and was part of ancient
Musashi Province
was a province of Japan, which today comprises Tokyo Metropolis, most of Saitama Prefecture and part of Kanagawa Prefecture. It was sometimes called . The province encompassed Kawasaki and Yokohama. Musashi bordered on Kai, Kōzuke, Sagami, S ...
. After the
Meiji Restoration it came under the jurisdiction of the short-lived prefectures of Shinagawa (1868), Irima (1871), Kumagaya (1873) and
Saitama (1876).
On April 1, 1889, the villages of Kamihōya, Shimohōya, and Hōya-shinden merged to form the village of Hoya within
Niikura District, then a portion of Saitama Prefecture. The district merged with
Kitaadachi District in 1896, but subsequently was transferred to the administrative control of Tokyo Metropolis on April 1, 1907. Hōya was connected to central Tokyo by train from 1915. Hoya was elevated to town status in 1940, and to city status in 1967.
On January 21, 2001, Hōya
was merged with the neighboring city of
Tanashi to create the city of
Nishi-Tōkyō, and Hōya thus no longer exists as an independent
municipality.
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