01646 ／ ほんべつちょう
Hokkaido 中川郡Town flower blooms in Yoshitsune's park.
Yoshitsune's Village Park01 ／ Former Honbetsu Station
Of the roadside station Stella Honbetsu, the town's 2012 document says it renewed the former Honbetsu Station. The town says the footbridge and part of the track of the former Furusato Ginga Line, closed in 2006, remain as they were at the time.
02 ／ Kamuiyama
Kamuiyama is a hill between the central town and Honbetsu Park, with a trail built by the townspeople. The town says that climbing from the park side, the day's number of climbers is written with a tree branch partway up, and it gives about 30 minutes to the observation deck from the park side and about 20 from the town side.
03 ／ Sembiri Station building
Sembiri Station is a station of the former Furusato Ginga Line, closed in 2006. The town introduces its station building as the Sembiri Railway Archive Room, with panels on the history of Honbetsu's railway. The town's 2012 document says three former stations, Sembiri among them, were each developed for its own use.
Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.
Wide (about 6 km across)
Close (about 1.5 km across)
Now (shot July–November 2023)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
There is no JR station in town. The town gives 30 km to JR Ikeda Station and 52 km to JR Obihiro Station. On the Tokachi Bus Obihiro-Rikubetsu line, daily buses run from Ikeda Station to Honbetsu in 43 minutes. The gateway is the Town Office.
−10.1% since 2015
10,336 → 6,618
179.83km² of it habitable
2024
2.1 people per household
2020
6.0 per 10,000 people
2023
These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.
ACCESS
Travel times follow 十勝バス公式の路線バス時刻表【17】帯広陸別線（平日ダイヤ jikoku_t17-20250602wd-1.pdf〈Last-Modified 2026-10-05〉・土日祝ダイヤ jikoku_t17-20250602we.pdf〈令和7年6月2日改定〉）。池田駅前→本別は毎日運転の6便がすべて43分 (checked 2026-10-29). They vary by time of day.
Shape
North to south
20.9km
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