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01206 ／くしろし

Kushiro City

Mud named “boiling” spurts up by a lake.

Bokke, Lake Akan shore

Photo by Abasaa (Public domain)

01 ／ Hokuto Site

On the terrace of this national site,pit-dwelling hollows can be seen.

A nationally designated historic site on a terrace overlooking Kushiro Wetland. According to the city, hollows of 102 pit dwellings from the Jomon and Epi-Jomon periods and 232 from the Satsumon period remain. The grounds have a reconstructed dwelling, seen from the lookout facing the wetland.

Designated a national historic site on 14 July 1977
102 Jomon and Epi-Jomon pit dwellings
232 Satsumon-period pit dwellings

02 ／ Nusamai Bridge

A bridge with bronze statues on it,the fifth over the Kushiro River.

A National Route 38 bridge over the Kushiro River. According to the Hokkaido Regional Development Bureau, it is 124 m long and was completed in 1976 as the fifth bridge. The city's landscape plan calls it the first bridge in Japan to have bronze statues placed on it, and the city's chronology dates the first bridge to 1900.

124 m long, National Route 38
1976 (Showa 51): fifth bridge completed
First bridge: 1900 (city chronology)

03 ／ Former Igarashi House

A double-windowed office by the door,praised as a cold-climate house model.

A two-storey wooden house built around 1950 as a home and office by a man who ran a construction firm in Kushiro. The office beside the entrance has double windows, and the kitchen with built-in fittings sits at the center of the house, which the listing calls a pioneering attempt for houses in the area.

Built around 1950, two-storey wooden house
Building area 120 m²
Registered Tangible Cultural Property of Japan since 17 August 2020

Kushiro 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 June–July 2015)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

To Kushiro Station, about 4 hours from Sapporo.

about 170,000 people

The city's "Access to Kushiro" page (updated 7 October 2026) gives JR travel times to Kushiro Station of about 4 hours from Sapporo Station, about 3 hours 30 minutes from Abashiri Station and about 2 hours 30 minutes from Nemuro Station. The gateway is Kushiro Station.

People living here: 165,077people
Area: 1,363.26km²
Households: 80,349households
Rent (average for rentals): 41,135yen
Healthcare: 17 hospitals ／ 78 clinics

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

Population from 2010 onward (municipal boundary changed).2005-10-11 に新設合併（阿寒町・音別町）。2010年調査から市域が変わっている。

Children waiting for childcare: —26 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 7 municipalities.

Kushiro City in Japan42.985°N 144.382°E

Territory of Kushiro 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

76.5km

Shiranuka Town, Tsurui Village, Urahoro Town, Tsubetsu Town, Kushiro Town, Ashoro Town, Teshikaga Town

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

Kushiro City isthis kind of town.

01Bokke on the Lake Akan shore is a mud volcano whose Ainu name means "boiling", according to the Ministry of the Environment, and the tourism site says hot mud spurts out of the ground there with volcanic gas
02The Hokuto Site is a national historic site on a terrace overlooking Kushiro Wetland, with pit-dwelling hollows and a reconstructed dwelling. Nusamai Bridge is the fifth bridge over the Kushiro River, and the Former Igarashi House has an office with double windows
03By JR, Kushiro Station is about 4 hours from Sapporo Station, the city says. The gateway is Kushiro Station

See the town as it is now.

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Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Kushiro City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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