Jigokudani, blast crater remains, Noboribetsu City
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01230 ／ のぼりべつし

Hokkaido

Noboribetsu City

Noboribetsu Onsen's top spring zone: crater about 450 m.

Jigokudani, blast crater remains

Photo by Calistemon (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Oyunuma

From the bottom of a gourd-shaped pond,sulfur spring water gushes up.

Oyunuma in Noboribetsu City
Photo by Calistemon (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Oyunuma is the remains of a crater formed by a steam explosion of Mt. Hiyori, a gourd-shaped pond about 1 km around. The tourism association says a sulfur spring of about 130 °C gushes from the bottom, and the surface, at about 40 to 50 °C, is grayish black. Sulfur deposited on the bed was once collected.

  • About 1 km around
  • Gourd-shaped pond
  • Steam explosion of Mt. Hiyori

02 ／ Primeval forest

Among Hokkaido's primeval forests,rich in relatively warm-climate species.

The Noboribetsu Primeval Forest around Jigokudani was designated a national natural monument on 9 December 1924. The Agency for Cultural Affairs describes it as rich in relatively warm-climate species among Hokkaido's primeval forests, with a very diverse flora. The Forestry Agency says about 60 tree species and about 110 herbaceous species grow there.

  • National natural monument
  • 9 December 1924 (Taisho 13)
  • About 60 tree species

03 ／ Spring Source Park

Beside a hot-spring stream from Jigokudani,a park puts a geyser to use.

Spring Source Park in Noboribetsu City
Photo by Wpcpey (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The tourism association introduces a park where visitors can feel a geyser that erupts forcefully, with sound and steam, at intervals of about 3 hours. Its chronology says the park was built in 2008 and that 80-degree hot water rises 8 m high.

  • Intervals of about 3 hours
  • 80-degree hot water
  • 8 m high

Noboribetsu City from the sky

Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.

Wide (about 6 km across)

Close (about 1.5 km across)

Now (shot September 2009)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

City Hall is about 5 minutes' walk from Horobetsu Station.

  • about 50,000 people

The city's access page says City Hall is about a 5-minute walk from JR Horobetsu Station. It lists Horobetsu as about 30 minutes by limited express from Tomakomai Station and about 1 hour 30 minutes from Sapporo Station.

People living here
46,391people
19952020

−6.5% since 2015

56,892 → 46,391

Area
212.21km²

38.53km² of it habitable

2024

Households
20,928households

2.2 people per household

2020

Rent (average for rentals)
38,700yen

National average 60,630 yen

2023

Healthcare
6 hospitals ／ 18 clinics

5.2 per 10,000 people

2023

Area212.21km²Habitable land38.53km² ／ 18%
Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103
Children waiting for childcare
—2 nurseries and similar
Home purchase subsidy
—
Average annual temperature
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These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

Shape

Borders 4 municipalities.

Noboribetsu City in Japan42.413°N 141.107°E
TokyoOsakaNoboribetsu City
Territory of Noboribetsu 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

22.6km

Shiraoi Town, Sobetsu Town, Muroran City, Date City

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

Noboribetsu City isthis kind of town.

  1. 01Jigokudani in Noboribetsu Onsen is a blast crater left by the eruptive activity of Mt. Hiyori, which the Forestry Agency describes as the largest spring area of Noboribetsu Onsen, about 450 m across
  2. 02Oyunuma is a gourd-shaped pond about 1 km around formed by a steam explosion of Mt. Hiyori, and the Noboribetsu Primeval Forest around Jigokudani was designated a national natural monument in 1924
  3. 03Spring Source Park is a park where a geyser erupts at intervals of about 3 hours, and City Hall is about 5 minutes' walk from JR Horobetsu Station

See the town as it is now.

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

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