01207 ／ おびひろし
HokkaidoTickets to Kofuku sold 10 million in four years.
Kofuku Station, old Hiroo Line01 ／ Aikoku Station
Aikoku Station is a former Japan National Railways Hiroo Line station. The city says it now serves as a transport museum displaying the tickets, panels and steam locomotive of its day. In front of the station stands a monument shaped like a ticket to Kofuku.
02 ／ Tokachi Railway
The Tokachi Railway opened in 1920 as a private line of Hokkaido Seito to carry sugar beets, the raw material for sugar. Steam locomotive No. 4, a 12-ton C-type tank engine built that year, is the only survivor among its sister engines No. 3 and No. 5. It became a city-designated cultural property in 1994.
03 ／ Former Futaba Kindergarten
The former Futaba Kindergarten building is a wooden kindergarten said to have been built in 1922 from a design by an educator of the time. An octagonal play hall sits at the center of the square building, with nursery rooms attached on its four sides, and the hall carries a domed roof. It was designated an Important Cultural Property in 2017.
Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.
Wide (about 6 km across)
Close (about 1.5 km across)
Now (shot July–November 2023)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
According to the city's profile (updated April 9, 2025), the area is 619.34 km², almost the same as Tokyo's 23 wards. The Hidaka Mountains occupy the southwest, and the urban area lies at the northeast edge of the city, next to the Tokachi and Satsunai rivers. The gateway is Obihiro Station.
−1.6% since 2015
171,715 → 166,536
381.3km² of it habitable
2024
2.1 people per household
2020
National average 60,630 yen
2023
7.7 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
37.5km
Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.
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Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)
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