01 ／ Bihoro Flax Factory Site
Teikoku Seima's Bihoro Flax Factory had 64 buildings, including the factory, warehouses and company housing, and began operating in 1920. Flax was a raw material for clothing, tents and rope, and in 1945 it was planted on 600 hectares. The factory closed in 1962, and the town presents it as a historic site.
02 ／ Bihoro Post Station Site
Post stations were facilities that gave travelers lodging and transport in early Hokkaido. The Bihoro Post Station opened in 1900 near today's town office and was run by Sanshichi Aoyama. The pasture lay southeast of the site, and the town records that it gave the place the name Aoyama. The station was closed in 1922.
03 ／ Mizuharu Ashigara Yakko
It began in the 2nd year of Showa, when young men of Mizuharu and elsewhere served as the lead procession for the mikoshi of Bihoro Shrine's autumn festival. The town records that every September 5 a 25-member preservation society sets out from the shrine and parades through the whole parish. It became a town cultural property in 1999.
Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.
Wide (about 6 km across)
Close (about 1.5 km across)
Now (shot August 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））
Living here
The town's access page (updated December 2024) gives about 5 hours from Bihoro Station to Sapporo on the Limited Express Okhotsk, two round trips a day. Bihoro Station on the JR Sekihoku Main Line is the only active JR station in town, and it appears in the JR Hokkaido October 2026 timetable. The gateway is Bihoro Station.
−7.9% since 2015
24,716 → 18,697
172.61km² of it habitable
2024
2.3 people per household
2020
National average 60,630 yen
2023
4.8 per 10,000 people
2023
These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.
Shape
North to south
32.8km
Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.
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