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01235 ／いしかりし

Ishikari City

A gold-named peak resembles Mt. Fuji.

Mt. Koganeyama, Hamamasu Fuji

Photo by Takisaw (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Shark Deity

A statue riding a turtle and one riding a sharkform a pair the locals call the “Shark Deity.”

The deity enshrined at Ishikari Bentensha shrine is called the “Shark Deity” locally. One statue rides a turtle and the other a shark, forming a pair; the turtle and the shark are thought to represent the two halves of its name. Dedicated in 1825 by Yamada, the manager of the Ishikari trading post, the statues were designated a Hokkaido Prefecture Tangible Folk Cultural Property in 2007.

Hokkaido Tangible Folk Cultural Property (2007)
Dedicated in 1825
A pair: one on a turtle, one on a shark

02 ／ Jin'ya site

The jin'ya built in 1859housed about 200 samurai.

The Hamamashike Jin'ya site is a national historic site. In 1859, after the shogunate granted the Tsuruoka domain of Dewa, also called the Shonai Domain, a territory, the domain built it as the base for managing Ezo. Long houses, storehouses and a drill hall stood around the magistrate's office; the main gate has been reconstructed, and the waterway known as the “Thousand-ryo Canal” can still be seen.

National historic site (designated 1988)
About 200 samurai lived there
“Thousand-ryo Canal” waterway

03 ／ Former Nagano Store

Soft stone is stacked outside a timber frame,with Western-style arched windows.

The Former Nagano Store was founded in 1874 by a merchant named Nagano from Niigata Prefecture. The shop building dates from 1894: a timber frame with more than 920 blocks of soft stone stacked outside it, in the mokkotsu-sekizo style. It combines a tiled roof and udatsu firewalls with Western-style arched windows.

Ishikari City Cultural Property (designated 1994)
More than 920 stone blocks
Shop building dates from 1894

Ishikari City 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 May 2025)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

From JR Sapporo Station, about 45 min by bus.

about 60,000 people

The city says it takes about 45 minutes from JR Sapporo Station (Kita 5-jo Nishi 1-chome bus stop) to the bus stop in front of Ishikari City Hall, about 50 minutes from the Chuo Bus Sapporo Terminal and about 30 minutes from Asabu Station on the subway (checked October 2026).

People living here: 56,869people
Area: 722.33km²
Households: 23,102households
Rent (average for rentals): 44,220yen
Healthcare: 5 hospitals ／ 26 clinics

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

Population from 2005 onward (municipal boundary changed).2005-10-01 に編入合併（厚田村・浜益村）。2005年調査から市域が変わっている。

Children waiting for childcare: —15 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 5 municipalities.

Ishikari City in Japan43.171°N 141.315°E

Territory of Ishikari City

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

67.5km

Tobetsu Town, Sapporo City, Mashike Town, Shintotsukawa Town, Otaru City

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

Ishikari City isthis kind of town.

01Mt. Koganeyama in Hamamasu, Ishikari City, is 739.1 m high; its shape resembles Mt. Fuji, so it is called Hamamasu Fuji and Koganeyama Fuji, and it is one of the national Places of Scenic Beauty known as Pirikanoka
02The Shark Deity of Ishikari Bentensha shrine is a pair of statues, one on a turtle and one on a shark, and a Hokkaido Tangible Folk Cultural Property; the Hamamashike Jin'ya site in Hamamasu is a national historic site built by the Shonai Domain in 1859
03The Former Nagano Store is a merchant house in the mokkotsu-sekizo style and a city cultural property; it takes about 45 min by bus from JR Sapporo Station to the stop in front of Ishikari City Hall

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