Kiyose

Kiyose is a city in the west of the Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. It is roughly wedge shaped, bordered by Saitama Prefecture to the north, east and south and separated from the city of Tokorozawa by the Yanase River, and it keeps considerable green space, with around 46 percent of its area remaining rural. The city sits on a flat tableland about 15 kilometres from the northeastern edge of the Musashino Plateau, with the average altitude ranging from 65 metres at Takeoka in the west to 20 metres at Shitajuku in the northeast. Kiyose became a town in 1954 and a city on 1 October 1970. It was noted for its many sanatoria for tuberculosis patients, and it still has the second-most hospital beds after Chiyoda Ward. Largely a bedroom community, with over a third of its workforce commuting to central Tokyo, it nevertheless keeps about 40 percent of its land in agriculture, with spinach and carrots the main crops. The estimated population was 74,972 and the area is 10.23 square kilometres.