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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 , Japan. Currently under the administration of the Ministry of Defense, it has also served as a civilian airport with Japan's first scheduled air service.

College
The , or NIJL, was established in May 1972. Its primary purpose is to preserve manuscripts and books relating to the study of Japanese literature.

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: 江戸村のとくぞう, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a city in western . The naming of comes from its location: sandwiched between 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)
Inception
April 1st, 1889
Open location code
8Q7XPC75+H4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1440311172
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1851306
Wiki­data ID
Q269634
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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”
  • Balinese: “Tachikawa, Tokyo”
  • 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-shi”
  • 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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