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01513 ／なかとんべつちょう

Hokkaido 枝幸郡

Nakatonbetsu Town

Shells piled up, then rose as limestone.

Nakatonbetsu Cave, Warship Rock

Photo by DrTerraKhan (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Mount Pinneshiri

A 703 m mountainstands at the town's center.

Mount Pinneshiri, 703 m high, is described by the town as standing at its center. Two rivers rise in the town's mountain areas centered on it and flow north to the Sea of Okhotsk. A shrine is enshrined on the summit.

703 m high (town)
A shrine on the summit
Where two rivers rise

02 ／ Former Tanbaya Inn

An inn that fronted the old station,its Japanese and Western wings joined.

The former Tanbaya Inn stood in front of Shotonbetsu Station on the old Tenpoku Line. The Japanese wing, a two-story wooden building (about 1914), was built with the station's opening; the Western wing (about 1927) joins its east side. Both are Registered Tangible Cultural Properties.

Japanese wing: about 1914
Western wing: about 1927
Registered Tangible Cultural Property (2000)

03 ／ Tenpoku Line Memorial Park

A park keeping a railway's namehosts the town's festivals.

The town writes that just after the era changed from Showa to Heisei, the railway that had worked to help the town grow ended and bus service began. Its tourism page lists Tenpoku Line Memorial Park as the venue of the January Latitude 45 Shibare Festival and the August Latitude 45 Summer Festival.

Railway ended in early Heisei
Latitude 45 Shibare Festival (January)
Latitude 45 Summer Festival (August)

Nakatonbetsu Town 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 September–October 2014)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

No station; about 2 hours by car from Wakkanai.

about 2,000 people
Rural district town

There is no railway station in the town. The town gives its access as about 2 hours by car from Wakkanai, about 3 hours 30 minutes from Asahikawa and about 5 hours 30 minutes from Sapporo.

People living here: 1,637people
Area: 398.51km²
Households: 756households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 2 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —1 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.

Nakatonbetsu Town in Japan44.970°N 142.287°E

Territory of Nakatonbetsu Town

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

27.4km

Esashi Town, Hamatonbetsu Town, Otoineppu Village, Nakagawa Town, Horonobe Town

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

Nakatonbetsu Town isthis kind of town.

01Warship Rock, the rock in front of Nakatonbetsu Limestone Cave, is limestone formed when small shells piled up on the seabed and were uplifted, according to Cultural Heritage Online. The cave is a Hokkaido natural monument
02Mount Pinneshiri, 703 m, stands at the town's center; the Japanese and Western wings of the former Tanbaya Inn, once the inn in front of an old Tenpoku Line station, are Registered Tangible Cultural Properties; and Tenpoku Line Memorial Park hosts the town's festivals
03The town has no railway station; the town gives about 2 hours by car from Wakkanai

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Nakatonbetsu Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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