Tama-ku, Kawasaki

Tama

多摩区
Tama 多摩区
Ward
	Tama Ward
	Tama Ward Office
	UTC+9 (Japan Standard Time)
- Tree	Flowering Dogwood, Nashi Pear
- Flower	Viola, Peach
Address	1775-1 Noborito, Tama-ku Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa-ken; 214-8570
Website	www.city.kawasaki.jp/71/71tama/home/index.html

Tama-ku (多摩区) is one of the seven wards of the city of Kawasaki in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2010, the ward has an estimated population of 211,221 and a population density of 10,310 persons per km². The total area is 20.49 km².

Geography

Tama Ward is located in eastern Kanagawa Prefecture, in the far northeastern corner of the city of Kawasaki, bordering on Tokyo. It is bordered to the north by the Tama River

Surrounding municipalities

Takatsu-ku, Kawasaki
Miyamae-ku, Kawasaki
Asao-ku, Kawasaki
Setagaya-ku, Tokyo
Chōfu, Tokyo
Komae, Tokyo
Inagi, Tokyo

History

The area around present-day Tama Ward has been inhabited for thousands of years. Archaeologists have found

tenryō territory controlled directly by the Tokugawa shogunate, but administered through various hatamoto. From 1725, the 52 villages of the area were a designated zone for Falconry by the Tokugawa shōguns, but suffered from repeated natural disasters: an earthquake in 1782, floods in 1786, famine in 1787, floods in 1790, 1791 and 1809 and earthquake in 1855

.

After the Meiji Restoration, the area was transferred to the new Kanagawa Prefecture, and divided into several villages within Tachibana District and Tsuzuki District, Kanagawa on April 1, 1889. These areas were annexed by the neighboring city of Kawasaki from 1938 to 1939. The area became Tama Ward with the division of the city of Kawasaki into wards from April 1972. In July 1982, Asao Ward was separated from Tama Ward. A new Ward Office was completed in 1997.

Economy

Tama Ward is largely a regional commercial center and

bedroom community

for central Kawasaki and Tokyo. Several factories producing chemical, glass, and electronics are located in the ward, and there is some residual agriculture (primarily horticulture and market vegetables).