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01456 ／あいべつちょう

Hokkaido 上川郡

Aibetsu Town

A closed station's room, now a gallery.

Aizan Museum

Photo by Mister0124 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Hokkaidoite

New mineral hokkaidoite's secondarytype locality is in Aibetsu.

The new mineral hokkaidoite was approved and registered by the International Mineralogical Association in January 2023. Of its two sites, the research group set Shikaoi, where enough data could be obtained, as the primary type locality and Aibetsu as the secondary one. In Aibetsu it occurs as pale yellow plate-like crystals in cavities of a vein at a former mine, and the site is closed to the public for protection.

Approved and registered January 2023
Aibetsu is the secondary type locality
Site closed to the public for protection

02 ／ Kura Kurara

A Sapporo soft stone brewery from 1924is now an exchange hub on the shopping street.

Kura Kurara is a former sake brewery built in 1924 of Sapporo soft stone. In 2000 it was converted into a community hall as a place for exchange and information on the shopping street. It has a multipurpose hall that can be used for parties, meetings and concerts.

Sake brewery built in 1924
Sapporo soft stone
Converted in 2000

03 ／ Sekihoku Line

With the Sekihoku Line extended in 1923,Naka-Aibetsu and Antaroma stations opened.

The town's historical chronology records that in 1923 the Sekihoku Line was opened through to Kamikawa Station and that Naka-Aibetsu Station and Antaroma Station opened. The Sekihoku Main Line has three stations in town, Aibetsu, Naka-Aibetsu and Antaroma, and all three appear in the JR Hokkaido timetable (October 2026 issue).

Opened through to Kamikawa in 1923
Naka-Aibetsu and Antaroma opened
Three stations in town

Aibetsu Town from the sky

Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.

Now1974–78

Wide (about 6 km across)

Close (about 1.5 km across)

Now (shot June 2024)Shot 1974–78

Source: Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) GSI Tiles（全国最新写真（シームレス）／国土画像情報（第一期：1974〜1978年撮影））

Open in GSI Maps (now)Open in GSI Maps (1974–78)

Living here

Three Sekihoku Main Line stations in town.

about 3,000 people
Rural district town

The Sekihoku Main Line has three stations in town: Aibetsu, Naka-Aibetsu and Antaroma. The town's access page gives 48 minutes from Asahikawa Station to Aibetsu Station by JR, 50 minutes from Asahikawa by Dohoku Bus, and 45 minutes by car from Asahikawa Station. The gateway is Aibetsu Station.

People living here: 2,605people
Area: 250.13km²
Households: 1,189households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 2 clinics

Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103

Children waiting for childcare: —1 nurseries and similar
Home purchase subsidy: —
Average annual temperature: —

These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

Shape

Borders 4 municipalities.

Aibetsu Town in Japan43.907°N 142.578°E

Territory of Aibetsu Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (Administrative Area Data), MLIT. Processed by Machigatari.Lakes: National Land Numerical Information (Lake Data), MLIT. Processed by Machigatari. Prepared with the approval of the Director-General of the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, using its Digital Map 25000 (Spatial Data Framework) and Digital Map 25000 (Place Names and Public Facilities). (承認番号平27情使、第585号)

North to south

22.3km

Shibetsu City, Toma Town, Kamikawa Town, Pippu Town

Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.

Aibetsu Town isthis kind of town.

01Aizan Museum reuses the waiting room of Aizan Station, which the town says closed on March 15, 2024, and displays materials and photos on the history of the station and the Aizan district
02The new mineral hokkaidoite was approved and registered in January 2023 with Aibetsu as its secondary type locality; Kura Kurara is a sake brewery of Sapporo soft stone built in 1924 and converted in 2000 into a place for exchange
03The Sekihoku Main Line has three stations in town, and Naka-Aibetsu and Antaroma opened when the Sekihoku Line was extended in 1923

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Aibetsu Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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