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Tachikawa

Tachikawa is a city located in the western portion of the Tokyo Metropolis, . As of 1 March 2021, the city had an estimated population of 184,383 in 93,428 households, and a population density of 7,600 persons per km2.
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  • Type: City with 180,000 residents
  • Description: city in Tokyo, Japan
  • Also known as: “Tachikawa Shi”, “Tachikawa, Tokyo”, and “Tatikawa”
  • Neighbors: , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tachikawa and Tachikawa Airfield.

Railway station
Photo: MaedaAkihiko, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Station is a junction passenger railway station located in the city of , Tokyo, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company.

Aerodrome
is an airfield in the city of Tachikawa, in the western part of , . Currently under the administration of the Ministry of Defense, it has also served as a civilian airport with Japan's first scheduled air service.

Railway station
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Station is a passenger railway station located in the city of Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kokubunji and Kunitachi.

Photo: Irina Gelbukh, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a city located in the western portion of the Tokyo Metropolis, . As of 1 March 2021, the city had an estimated population of 126,791, and a population density of 11,000 persons per km2. The total area of the city was 11.46 square kilometres.

Photo: Nyaos, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a city in western . The naming of comes from its location: sandwiched between Kokubunji and Tachikawa, the first kanji in each city was combined to create a new name.

Tachikawa

Latitude
35.7139° or 35° 42′ 50″ north
Longitude
139.4078° or 139° 24′ 28″ east
Population
180,000
Elevation
94 metres (308 feet)
Open location code
8Q7XPC75+H4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1440311172
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1851306
Wiki­data ID
Q269634
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Tachikawa” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ታቺካዋ ከተማ (ቶክዮ)”
  • Amharic: “ታቺካዋ ከተማ”
  • Arabic: “تاتشيكاوا، طوكيو”
  • Arabic: “تاتشيكاوا”
  • Armenian: “Տատիկավա”
  • Asturian: “Tachikawa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Taçikava”
  • Basque: “Tachikawa”
  • Belarusian: “Тацікава”
  • Bengali: “তাকিকাওয়া”
  • Bulgarian: “Тачикава”
  • Catalan: “Tachikawa”
  • Cebuano: “Tachikawa”
  • Chechen: “Татикава”
  • Chinese: “Tatikawa-chhī”
  • Chinese: “立川市”
  • Czech: “Tačikawa”
  • Danish: “Tachikawa”
  • Dutch: “Tachikawa”
  • Esperanto: “Taĉikava”
  • Estonian: “Tachikawa”
  • Finnish: “Tachikawa”
  • French: “Tachikawa”
  • Galician: “Tachikawa”
  • German: “Tachikawa”
  • Greek: “Τατσικάβα”
  • Gujarati: “તાચિકાવા”
  • Hebrew: “טאצ’יקאווה”
  • Hindi: “ताचिकावा सिटी”
  • Hungarian: “Tacsikava”
  • Indonesian: “Tachikawa, Tōkyō”
  • Indonesian: “Tachikawa”
  • Irish: “Tachikawa”
  • Italian: “Tachikawa”
  • Japanese: “Tachikawa-shi”
  • Japanese: “たちかわし”
  • Japanese: “タチカワシ”
  • Japanese: “立川”
  • Japanese: “立川市”
  • Japanese: “立川村”
  • Japanese: “立川町”
  • Kannada: “ಟಚಿಕಾವಾ”
  • Korean: “다치카와”
  • Korean: “다치카와시”
  • Latvian: “Tačikava”
  • Literary Chinese: “立川市”
  • Lithuanian: “Tachikawa”
  • Lithuanian: “Tačikava”
  • Luxembourgish: “Tachikawa”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Tachikawa”
  • Malay: “Tachikawa”
  • Marathi: “ताचिकवा”
  • Mazanderani: “تاچیکاوا، توکیو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tatikawa-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tachikawa”
  • Norwegian: “Tachikawa”
  • Persian: “تاچیکاوا، توکیو”
  • Persian: “تاچیکاوا”
  • Polish: “Tachikawa”
  • Portuguese: “Tachikawa”
  • Romanian: “Tachikawa”
  • Russian: “Татикава”
  • Scots: “Tachikawa, Tokyo”
  • Scots: “Tachikawa”
  • Serbian: “Tačikava”
  • Serbian: “Тачикава”
  • Serbian: “立川市”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tachikawa”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tačikava”
  • Sinhala: “ටචිකවා”
  • Slovenian: “Tačikava”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تاچیکاوا، توکیو”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تاچیکاوا”
  • Spanish: “Tachikawa”
  • Sundanese: “Tachikawa, Tokyo”
  • Swedish: “Tachikawa”
  • Tagalog: “Tachikawa, Tokyo”
  • Tagalog: “Tachikawa”
  • Tagalog: “Tatsikawa”
  • Tajik: “Tacikava”
  • Tajik: “Тачикава”
  • Tamil: “டச்சிக்கவா”
  • Tatar: “Татикава”
  • Tatar: “Тачикава”
  • Telugu: “తాచికావా”
  • Thai: “ทาจิกาวะ”
  • Tumbuka: “Tachikawa”
  • Turkish: “Tachikawa-mura”
  • Turkish: “Tachikawa”
  • Ukrainian: “Татікава”
  • Ukrainian: “Тачікава”
  • Urdu: “تاچیکاوا”
  • Venetian: “Tachikawa”
  • Vietnamese: “Tachikawa, Tokyo”
  • Vietnamese: “Tachikawa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tachikawa, Tokyo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tachikawa”
  • Yue Chinese: “立川市”

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