Hachioji City, located on the island of Honshu, 40 kilometers from the Greater Tokyo, famous for its medieval landmark - the ruins of the castle that are located nine kilometers west of the center of the modern Hachioji. Besides the ruins of the castle tourists are attracted to these places beautiful mountain scenery and small temples.

Hachioji Castle - is evidence of what military action took place in this area in the fourteenth century. Hachioji is surrounded by mountains on three sides, one of them - Mount Shiroyama - in 1570 the representative of the powerful family Hojo Udziteru built a castle. After 20 years, the ruler Hideyoshi, who was involved in the union of Japanese land and destroyed it. The battle on the slopes of Shiroyama was fierce and bloody, but the owner of the castle lost it and was forced to commit seppuku - ritual suicide of the samurai.

Ruined castle for a long time no one dared to touch it, the rumor even populate it ghosts and phantoms. But in 1990, part of the castle still decide to restore. In particular, you can see fragments of the residence of the local governor - bridges, walls and entrance to the castle.

Hachioji received city status in 1917 century. In the Meiji era, he was famous as a center of silk production, and before that was a postal station and a transit point on the road that connects the city of Edo (now Tokyo) with the western regions of the country.

During the Second World War, the city has gained a bad reputation, and suffered greatly because of the incident with the American pilots. The captured pilots publicly beheaded. Photo executions were published in newspapers, then every American crew tried to avenge comrades and throw over the city at least one bomb. Destruction of these bombardments were terrible.

Currently, the city is also the "sleeping" areas, and the city university. From Hachioji many commute to work in Tokyo. Universities and colleges (the city of 23) began here to appear in the 60s of the last century during the so-called transfer of educational institutions and continue to open in the 80s. The city maintained the production of precision instruments and electronics, as it is one of the logistics centers.