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01610 ／しんひだかちょう

Hokkaido 日高郡

Shinhidaka Town

A road named for its width in ken.

Nijukken Road Cherry Trees

Photo by Hales Suen (CC BY 2.0)

01 ／ Burial mounds

About 80 stone-piled Jomon graves,found by a high school history club.

This burial-mound group in the Shizunai area is made of stone-piled graves from the late to final Jomon period, about 3,000 years ago. Shizunai High School's local history club found them in 1952, and later surveys have confirmed about 80 graves. The site is a Hokkaido-designated historic site.

Hokkaido-designated historic site
Stone-piled graves about 3,000 years old
About 80 graves confirmed

02 ／ Kelp drying

Kelp is spread across a gravel beach,and the town says the pebbles let the wind through.

The town describes sun-drying Hidaka kelp spread across the beach as a method handed down unchanged for over 100 years. It says the gaps between pebbles on the gravel beach give good airflow and help drying, and that Mitsuishi kelp, known as Hidaka kelp, became a local specialty.

Standard name Mitsuishi kelp
Sun-dried on a gravel beach
Method handed down over 100 years

03 ／ Scenic place

A 66 m hill left standingafter the Mitsuishi River wore away the rest.

In Mitsuishi, a town-designated scenic place is a residual hill 66 m high and about 150 m around. The town says one of its amphibolite masses was eroded by the Mitsuishi River and left standing. More than 300 species of higher plants, including the Hidaka-endemic Hidaka rock primrose, grow there.

Town-designated scenic place (Mar. 31, 2006)
66 m high, about 150 m around
Over 300 species of higher plants

Shinhidaka 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 2019)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 in town; 82 minutes by bus from Mukawa.

about 20,000 people
Rural district town

There is no railway station in the town. The town says the Hidaka Main Line between Mukawa and Samani closed on March 31, 2021 and was replaced by buses. Donan Bus's Tomakomai-Shizunai route takes at best 82 minutes from Mukawa Station to the Miyuki-cho stop in Shizunai.

People living here: 21,517people
Area: 1,147.55km²
Households: 10,176households
Rent (average for rentals): 37,033yen
Healthcare: 4 hospitals ／ 13 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —9 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.

ACCESS

Where you can go from here.

Shinhidaka Town in Japan42.341°N 142.369°E

to MukawaLocal bus82min

Travel times follow 道南バス『苫小牧静内線』の時刻表（https://www.donanbus.co.jp/map/hidaka_shizunai_tomakomai/tomakomai_shizunai/ 、取得2026-10-29。版の日付はページに無い）。鵡川駅前発→御幸町着：8:30→9:52・10:04→11:26・11:54→13:16・14:14→15:36＝82分（15:59→17:26・18:09→19:36は87分・20:21→21:42は81分の表記だが最速で数え82）。土日祝ダイヤも同じ時刻。静内バスターミナル（静内）着なら93分 (checked 2026-10-29). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 4 municipalities.

Territory of Shinhidaka 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

50.9km

Niikappu Town, Urakawa Town, Taiki Town, Nakasatsunai Village

Shinhidaka Town isthis kind of town.

01Nijukken Road was planted with cherry trees over three years from 1916, and the town says it took its name because the road was exactly twenty ken (about 36 m) wide, with over 2,000 trees along a straight 7 km
02The Shizunai burial-mound group is made of stone-piled Jomon graves found by the Shizunai High School local history club, with about 80 confirmed, and are a Hokkaido-designated historic site
03In Mitsuishi, kelp is dried on a gravel beach by a method handed down for generations, and a town-designated scenic place is a 66 m hill left by the Mitsuishi River

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Shinhidaka Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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