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Hino City

Homes line a canal said to date to 1567.

Hino Canal, Sato Hayato

Photo by Asturio Cantabrio (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Post town

The top-ranking guest roomwas cut off from the main house.

After the great fire of Kaei 2 (1849), the head of the family, Sato Hikogoro, rebuilt it in Genji 1 (1864). The jodan-no-ma, the guest room of the highest rank it originally had, was cut off from the main house and moved elsewhere in 1893 (Meiji 26). In February 2024 a Tokyo council recommended adding it to the designation.

Tokyo Metropolitan Historic Site (March 2010)
Rebuilt in Genji 1 (1864)
Addition of the jodan-no-ma recommended (February 2024)

02 ／ Excavated find

A weight for spinning threadis inscribed with a date in Wado 7.

A dark-green igneous-rock weight found on the floor of a dwelling pit at the Ochikawa-Ichinomiya site. Its top bears an inscription that reads "the second day of the eleventh month, Wado 7," and Wado 7 is 714 CE. The city regards it as evidence of how far the ritsuryo system reached near the Musashi provincial capital.

City-designated Tangible Cultural Property (May 2002)
Weighs 54.6 g (city)
Top diameter 4.2 cm (city)

03 ／ Historic site

A grave from the site of a mansionnow stands in Soin-ji's graveyard.

Hirayama Sueshige was a warrior of the East from the late Heian to early Kamakura period, and the Hirayama belonged to the Musashi Shichito. His 25th-generation descendant built the grave at Daifuku-ji, on land said to have held his mansion. Daifuku-ji was merged into Soin-ji, and the grave was moved to its present site.

Tokyo Metropolitan Historic Site (March 1936)
Within the Soin-ji graveyard (Tokyo)
Daifuku-ji closed in Meiji 6 (city)

Hino City from the sky

Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.

Now1974–78

Wide (about 6 km across)

Close (about 1.5 km across)

Now (shot June–November 2019)Shot 1974–78

Source: Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) GSI Tiles（全国最新写真（シームレス）／国土画像情報（第一期：1974〜1978年撮影））

Open in GSI Maps (now)Open in GSI Maps (1974–78)

Living here

44 minutes from Tokyo, 30 from Shinjuku.

about 190,000 people
30 min to a city centre

On the JR Chuo Line Special Rapid, Hino Station is 44 minutes from Tokyo and 30 minutes from Shinjuku by the fastest weekday train (JR East timetable, October 2026). The city's guide puts City Hall about a 15-minute walk from Hino Station.

People living here: 190,435people
Area: 27.55km²
Households: 90,404households
Rent (average for rentals): 64,199yen
Healthcare: 7 hospitals ／ 132 clinics

Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103

Children waiting for childcare: —28 nurseries and similar
Home purchase subsidy: —
Average annual temperature: —

These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

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Where you can go from here.

Hino City in Japan35.671°N 139.395°E

to TokyoJR Chuo Line (Rapid)44min
to ShinjukuJR Chuo Line (Rapid)30min

Travel times follow JR東日本の駅の時刻表（日野駅中央本線・中央線快速八王子・大月方面。https://timetables.jreast.co.jp/2610/timetable/tt1328/1328010.html〔平日〕・1328011.html〔土曜・休日〕と、その列車ページ約370枚。2026-10-22 に取得。作業のフォルダ $SP/tokyo-hino/jr/）。京王電鉄の公式時刻表API（transfer-train.navitime.biz/api/keio/timetable/<駅>/1/1。新宿4254・高幡不動2624。平日2026-10-22・土休日2026-10-25の分。2026年8月17日改正のダイヤ）を列車番号で突き合わせた (checked 2026-10-23). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 6 municipalities.

Territory of Hino City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (Administrative Area Data), MLIT. Processed by Machigatari.

North to south

5.8km

Hachioji City, Tama City, Tachikawa City, Fuchu City, Kunitachi City, Akishima City

Hino City isthis kind of town.

01The Hino Canal draws water from the Tama River, with its intake at Hirazeki weir in Hachioji City. The city notes that a 1703 document, Aisatsu Mokuroku, records Sato Hayato as having built it in 1567 (Eiroku 10). The city's canals total about 116 km
02The Hino-juku Honjin is the site of a waki-honjin on the Koshu Kaido's Hino post town, a Tokyo Metropolitan Historic Site. Tokyo notes that Sato Hikogoro opened a Tennen Rishin-ryu dojo there, where Hijikata Toshizo and Kondo Isami gathered. The jodan-no-ma was cut off from the main house in the Meiji era and moved elsewhere
03A spindle whorl inscribed with Wado 7 was unearthed at the Ochikawa site and is a city-designated cultural property. The grave of Hirayama Sueshige lies in Soin-ji's graveyard, a Tokyo-designated historic site. Hino Station is 44 minutes from Tokyo by the fastest weekday train

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Hino City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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