The city of Hachioji, located on Honshu island, about 40 kilometers from greater Tokyo, famous for its medieval attraction is the ruins of the castle, which is located nine kilometers West of the center of modern Hachiōji. In addition to the castle ruins attract tourists to these places beautiful mountain scenery and small temples.

Hachiōji castle is evidence of what military action occurred in this area in the FOURTEENTH century. Hachiōji is surrounded by mountains on three sides, one of them - mount Shiroyama - in 1570, the representative of influential kind of the HOJO Ujiteru built a castle. 20 years later the ruler Hideyoshi, who was involved in the Association of Japanese lands, destroyed him. 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 a samurai.

Ruined castle a long time no one dared to touch, the rumor was even inhabited by ghosts and phantoms. But in 1990 the part of the castle still decided to restore. In particular, you can see fragments of the residence of a local ruler – the bridge, the walls and the entrance to the castle.

Hachiōji was granted town status in 1917 century. In the Meiji period it was known as a center of silk production, and before that was a post station and a transit point on the road that connected the city of Edo (now Tokyo) with the Western parts of the country.

During the Second world war the city has acquired a bad name and greatly suffered because of the incident with the American pilots. Captured pilots have publicly beheaded. Photo executions were published in the Newspapers, after that, each American crew tried to avenge his comrades and relieve the city at least one bomb. The destruction from these bombings were terrible.

Currently the city is both "sleeping" area and University city. From Hachiōji many commute to work in Tokyo. Universities and colleges in the city 23) began to appear in the 60-ies of the last century, during the so-called transfer of training institutions and continued to open in the ' 80s. the city is the manufacture of precision instruments and electronics, he also is one of the logistics centres.