Kodaira, Tokyo

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Kodaira is a city in western Tokyo, Japan. It covers about 20.5 square kilometers and has around 195,000 residents. It sits on the Musashino Terrace near the center of Tokyo and has a humid subtropical climate with warm summers and cool winters. The average yearly temperature is about 14.0°C and it gets roughly 1,647 mm of rain each year, with September the wettest month.

History and growth: The area was once part of Musashi Province. It became a village in 1889, joined Tokyo Metropolis in 1893, became a town in 1944, and was made a city in 1962. The population grew quickly in the 1950s and 1960s and has risen slowly since then.

Government: Kodaira has a mayor-council government with a directly elected mayor and a 28-member city council. It also sends two members to the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly. The current mayor is Yōko Kobayashi (since April 2021).

Education: The city has three public high schools and one special education school run by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, plus 19 public elementary schools and eight public junior high schools. There are two private elementary schools, three private junior high schools, and three private high schools.

Transportation: Kodaira is served by JR East’s Musashino Line and several Seibu Railway lines. There are no national highways or expressways in the city.