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01221 ／なよろし

Nayoro City

A train broke snow walls, blew snow far.

Kimaroki, a snow-clearing train

01 ／ Suzuishi

A stone called a bell stone for its sound when shakenis a national natural monument with Takashi-kozo.

Nayoro Suzuishi is a kind of limonite thought to form as iron wraps around a clay core like a shell. Most are about fist-sized and rattle when shaken. Takashi-kozo are cylindrical tubes, about 1 to 6 cm across. Both became national natural monuments in 1939, and the specimens are held at the Kitaguni Museum.

Natural monument (designated 7 Sept 1939)
Suzuishi mostly fist-sized
Takashi-kozo about 1 to 6 cm across

02 ／ Church hall

The hall built in 1909 is the city'soldest surviving Western-style wooden building.

The hall of the Nayoro Church, United Church of Christ in Japan, is City Cultural Property No. 3. It was built by the family that founded a woodworking company in 1907. The straight gable front and tall windows with rounded tops give a Western impression. In 1923 a half-basement was added for Nayoro's first kindergarten, giving it nearly its present form.

City Cultural Property No. 3
Built in 1909
Half-basement added in 1923

03 ／ Foucault pendulum

In the museum's entrance hall standsa pendulum that proves the Earth's rotation.

The Nayoro city website calls the pendulum in the Kitaguni Museum's entrance hall a valuable installation that few places in Japan have. The city says it carries the image of the sun pillar, a natural phenomenon typical of Nayoro winters. The museum stands on a hill south of Nayoro Park, on the former Nayoro Line site.

In the entrance hall
Few in Japan, says the city
Carries the image of the sun pillar

Nayoro 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–August 2011)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

From Nayoro Station to the museum, about 16 minutes on foot.

about 30,000 people

The city's facility guide (updated April 2026) gives about 16 minutes on foot and about 6 minutes by car from Nayoro Station to the Kitaguni Museum. The Kimaroki, on the former Nayoro Line tracks in front of the museum, is on display from late April to mid-October and covered with sheets in winter. The Soya Main Line reached Nayoro on 3 September 1903.

People living here: 27,282people
Area: 534.86km²
Households: 12,810households
Rent (average for rentals): 42,792yen
Healthcare: 4 hospitals ／ 10 clinics

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

Population from 2010 onward (municipal boundary changed).2006-03-27 に新設合併（風連町）。2010年調査から市域が変わっている。

Children waiting for childcare: —5 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.

Nayoro City in Japan44.356°N 142.463°E

Territory of Nayoro 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

34.5km

Shimokawa Town, Bifuka Town, Shibetsu City, Horokanai Town, Oumu Town

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

Nayoro City isthis kind of town.

01In front of Nayoro's Kitaguni Museum stands the Kimaroki snow-clearing train of locomotive, snow-gathering car, rotary car and locomotive; the city says it exists only in Nayoro nationwide
02Nayoro Suzuishi and Takashi-kozo became national natural monuments in 1939, and the Nayoro Church hall, built in 1909, is a city cultural property
03The museum's entrance hall has a Foucault pendulum, about 16 minutes on foot from Nayoro Station

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Nayoro City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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