was a
city
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located in the western portion of
Tokyo Metropolis,
Japan
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.
Tanashi means the land without rice. Because of the area's elevation relative to the Tamagawa River, traditional irrigation and rice farming was impossible. Hence, the area was named Tanashi.
At the time of its merger, the city had an estimated
population of 78,165 and a
density of 11,495 persons per km
2. The total area was 6.8 km
2.
The area of modern Tanashi prospered during the
Edo period as a
post station on the Ome Kaido and Tokorozawa Kaido, 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) and Irima (1871), before becoming part of
Kanagawa in 1872. During the early
Meiji period (1878) cadastral reform, it became the town of Tanashi within
Kitatama District in Kanagawa. The entire district was transferred to the administrative control of Tokyo Metropolis in 1893. Tanashi was connected to central Tokyo by train from 1927. Tanashi was elevated to city status in 1967.
On January 21, 2001, Tanashi
was merged with the neighboring city of
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Places
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*County of Hoya, a former state in present Germany
* Hoya, Tokyo, now incorporated within Nishi-tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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to create the city of
Nishi-Tōkyō, and thus Tanashi no longer exists as an independent
municipality.
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