Chōfu

Chofu: Tokyo Stadium

Chōfu, city, south-central Tokyo to (metropolis), east-central Honshu, Japan. It is bordered by Tokyo city (east) and the Tama River (south) and the cities of Fuchū (west) and Mitaka (north) in the metropolis.

During the Edo (Tokugawa) period (1603–1867), Chōfu was a post town on the Kōshū Highway. Industrialization progressed rapidly after the city was connected to Tokyo by railway in the early 1920s. Chōfu’s products now include machinery, electrical equipment, chemicals, and foods. Since World War II, Chōfu has been a residential suburb of the Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan area. The Jindai (“Age of the Gods”) Temple in the northern part of the city was built in 733. Chōfu has a cycling racetrack (Keiokaku Velodrome), a sports stadium (Tokyo, or Ajinomoto, Stadium), and an airport, used mainly for flight service to and from the Izu archipelago and other islands that are administered by the Tokyo metropolitan government. Pop. (2010) 223,593; (2015) 229,061.