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is a neighborhood in
Tama-ku, Kawasaki 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 W ...
,
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,
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just across the southwestern border of
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on the
Tama River The is a major river in Yamanashi Prefecture, Yamanashi, Kanagawa Prefecture, Kanagawa and Tokyo Prefectures on Honshū, Japan. It is officially classified as a Class 1 river by the Government of Japan, Japanese government. It is long, an ...
and about 18 minutes south of
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on the
Odakyu Odawara Line , commonly known as Odakyū, is a major railway company based in Tokyo, Japan, best known for its '' Romancecar'' series of limited express trains from Tokyo to Odawara, Enoshima, Tama New Town, and Hakone. The Odakyu Electric Railway Company ...
Express. In 1927, Odakyu Line and Nanbu Line were constructed. Noborito Station became the interchange station. During
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, the
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established its secret institute, the Number Nine Research Laboratory, for researching special weapons, such as the
Fu-Go balloon bomb was an deployed by Japan against the United States during World War II. It consisted of a hydrogen-filled paper balloon in diameter, with a payload of four Incendiary device, incendiary devices and one high-explosive Anti-personnel weapon, ...
, counterfeit bills, and other chemical and biological weapons. It is called the "Noborito Institute" now, and several houses are used by
Meiji University is a Private university, private research university in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. Originally founded as Meiji Law School () by three lawyers in 1881, it became a university in April 1920. As of May 2023, Meiji has 32,261 undergradu ...
. For many years after 1945, Noborito was thought of as a rather sleepy suburb and company dormitory for workers to commute to more urban destinations such as Kawasaki,
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, and Shinjuku. Noborito has the
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Art Museum and Minka-en folk village, both nearer
Mukōgaoka-Yūen Station is a passenger railway station located in the Noborito neighborhood of Tama-ku, Kawasaki, Tama-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Kanagawa, Japan and operated by the private railway operator Odakyu Electric Railway. Lines M ...
than Noborito Station. Image:Tama-River.gif, Tama River Noborito Image:Suzuki-house.gif, Minka-en Suzuji house


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{{coord, 35, 37, 15, N, 139, 34, 12, E, display=title, region:JP-14 Neighborhoods of Kawasaki, Kanagawa