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01545 ／しゃりちょう

Hokkaido 斜里郡

Shari Town

A rebar-free bridge no train ever used.

Koshikawa Bridge, never crossed

Photo by 橄欖岩 at Japanese Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Chashikotsu Cape-top Site

31 pit dwellings built in the 8th-9th centuries,a cape site of the Okhotsk culture.

The Agency for Cultural Affairs says this national historic site lies on a cape-like coastal terrace 55 m above sea level, at the southwestern tip of the Shiretoko Peninsula. A settlement site centered on the late Okhotsk culture, it yielded Jingu Kaiho, used under the ancient Ritsuryo state, showing exchange with the Honshu side through neighboring groups.

National Historic Site (designated Feb. 26, 2019)
31 pit dwellings (8th-9th centuries)
Jingu Kaiho excavated

02 ／ Oshinkoshin Falls

The flow splits in two partway down,one of the 100 Waterfalls of Japan.

The Shiretoko Shari-cho Tourist Association says the drop is about 30 m, and the flow splits in two partway down, which is why it is also called the Twin Beauty falls. The town's Shiretoko Museum says the falls drop over the same coarse-grained basalt cliff as the Hokkaido-designated Natural Monument columnar joints at Cape Oshinkoshin.

Drop of about 30 m (tourist association)
Also called the Twin Beauty falls
One of the 100 Waterfalls of Japan

03 ／ Shiretoko 100 Square Meter Movement

Buying back pioneer-farm land with donationsfrom across Japan to restore the primeval forest.

The town says that in Shiretoko, a World Natural Heritage site, Shari Town has long worked on a national trust movement to protect the forest. The movement's own site says it began in 1977, bought former farmland in the national park with donations, and acquired all the land it targeted in 2010.

Started in 1977
Target reached in March 1997 (49,024 participants in total, 520 million yen)
About 861 ha with town-owned land

Shari 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 July–October 2024)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

Over 100 km of coastline to the north, the Shiretoko mountains to the southeast.

about 10,000 people
Rural district town

The town says Shari faces the Sea of Okhotsk, with a coastline of over 100 km to the north and the Shiretoko mountains to the southeast, forming an arc-shaped triangle. Its area is 737.13 km², and it shares the Shiretoko Peninsula with Rausu Town. Agriculture, fishing and tourism are its main industries.

People living here: 11,418people
Area: 737.13km²
Households: 5,349households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 3 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —3 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 4 municipalities.

Shari Town in Japan43.911°N 144.671°E

Territory of Shari 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

65.6km

Rausu Town, Shibetsu Town, Kiyosato Town, Koshimizu Town

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

Shari Town isthis kind of town.

01Koshikawa Bridge is, per the Agency for Cultural Affairs, a ten-span arch bridge of unreinforced concrete, 147 m long and 21.7 m high. Built as part of the Konboku Line, which was never completed, it is also called the bridge not crossed, since the town says no train ever ran over it. It was registered as a national Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 1998
02Chashikotsu Cape-top Site is a settlement site centered on the late Okhotsk culture, designated a national historic site in 2019. Oshinkoshin Falls drop about 30 m according to the tourist association, split in two partway down, and are among the 100 Waterfalls of Japan
03The Shiretoko 100 Square Meter Movement began in 1977 in Shari Town to buy former farmland in Shiretoko National Park with donations and restore the primeval forest. The town shares the Shiretoko Peninsula with Rausu Town and covers 737.13 km². The gateway to the town is Shiretoko-Shari Station

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Shari Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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