01 ／ Wakka Primeval Flower Garden
The city says the sandbar is 200 to 700 m wide and 20 km long, separating the Sea of Okhotsk from Lake Saroma. It explains that the name Wakka, an Ainu word meaning a place with water, comes from a freshwater marsh in the middle of the bar. Its spring is called the "Sacred Water of Flowers, Wakka's Water."
02 ／ Tokoro Site
The nationally designated Tokoro Site has 12 locations in 4 districts, and the city introduces Sakaeura Daini as the largest. A pit dwelling has been reconstructed at the Tokoro Forest Park of Archaeological Sites, whose museum shows representative pieces of the Tokoro River Mouth Site grave-pit artifacts, an Important Cultural Property.
03 ／ Post station
An ekitei was a post station that housed travelers and handled the relay of people and horses. This one opened in Taisho 9 (1920). The city introduces it as the oldest surviving ekitei in its area. The city says the Architectural Institute of Japan chose the building as one of the famous buildings of modern Japan, and it was repaired in fiscal 2020.
Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.
Wide (about 6 km across)
Close (about 1.5 km across)
Now (shot July–September 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 city gives Kitami's area as 1,427.41 km², about 65% of Tokyo Metropolis and about 76% of Kagawa Prefecture. It says the east-west road distance is about 110 km, comparable to Tokyo Station to Hakone. On March 5, 2006 (Heisei 18), Kitami and three neighboring towns merged into today's Kitami City.
−4.7% since 2015
125,689 → 115,480
427.94km² of it habitable
2024
2.1 people per household
2020
National average 60,630 yen
2023
6.8 per 10,000 people
2023
Population from 2010 onward (municipal boundary changed).2006-03-05 に新設合併（端野町・常呂町・留辺蘂町）。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
66.2km
Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.
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