01210 ／ いわみざわし
Hokkaido232 old rails frame the station windows.
Rail window frames, Iwamizawa01 ／ Station building
Asahi Station opened in 1919 and its building was refurbished in 1956; it closed with the Manji Line in 1985. In 1999 the surroundings became the Manji Line Railway Park, and a Class B20 steam locomotive was moved there from Higashiyama Park.
02 ／ Civil engineering heritage
It is a JSCE Selected Civil Engineering Heritage (fiscal 2012), in Higashimachi, Iwamizawa, completed in 1936. The citation calls it one of four surviving prewar steel road bridges in Hokkaido and the first solid-rib tied-arch bridge built there.
03 ／ Glass plates
The materials are glass-plate photographs taken from the late 1900s to the early 1940s, and related items such as the paper boxes that held the plates. The city notes that the subjects range widely, including family, farms and sightseeing spots in Hokkaido. The designation was decided on 24 December 2025.
Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.
Wide (about 6 km across)
Close (about 1.5 km across)
Now (shot June 2017)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 city's access page (updated 1 April 2022) gives about 25 minutes from Sapporo and about 65 minutes from New Chitose Airport by JR. Iwamizawa Station is on the JR Hakodate Main Line and Muroran Main Line.
−6.1% since 2015
90,145 → 79,306
320.71km² of it habitable
2024
2.2 people per household
2020
National average 60,630 yen
2023
8.6 per 10,000 people
2023
Population from 2010 onward (municipal boundary changed).2006-03-27 に編入合併（北村・栗沢町）。2010年調査から市域が変わっている。
These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.
Shape
North to south
29.1km
Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.
See the town as it is now.
Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)
If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.
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