01401 ／ きょうわちょう
Hokkaido 岩内郡A pond named for a party's sense of a hermit's home.
Shinsen-numa, its naming01 ／ Iwanai Line station
The town says the Iwanai Line, closed in 1985, had served as a link to the Hakodate Main Line. A railway memorial park opened in 1988 on the site of old Horoni Station, and a memorial hall preserving the old station is open to the public from May 1 to October 31, closed Mondays.
02 ／ School songs
The town's local-history hall is a restored former Horoni Elementary School. To mark the hall's 30th anniversary, the songs of 12 closed elementary schools, 3 junior high schools and 2 high schools were recorded, playable at the push of a button. Songs of schools still open and the town song are included.
03 ／ Three-village merger and emblem
The town says three villages merged in 1955 to form Kyowa Village, and the village emblem was set on that occasion. It places the first character of Kyowa on top and symbolizes the second with a circle; the first stands for residents of the three districts joining forces.
Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.
Wide (about 6 km across)
Close (about 1.5 km across)
Now (shot May–August 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））
Living here
The town says its flower is the mitsugashiwa (bogbean), which grows around the edge of Shinsen-numa, and its tree is the yew, with many old specimens; both were adopted in 1985. By JR, one gets off at Kozawa Station on the Hakodate Main Line. From the observation deck at Shinsen-numa, the town describes the view of rice-country farmland.
−7.3% since 2015
7,430 → 5,772
101.86km² of it habitable
2024
2.1 people per household
2020
6.9 per 10,000 people
2023
These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.
Shape
North to south
23.2km
Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.
If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.
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