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01665 ／てしかがちょう

Hokkaido 川上郡

Teshikaga Town

Yellow needle crystals form near vents.

Mt. Io, Atosa-nupuri

Photo by 663highland (CC BY 2.5)

01 ／ Former Minami-Teshikaga Station

The stand-in for the wooden stationwas a scrapped guard's van.

The town says Minami-Teshikaga Station's building was a scrapped guard's van reused as a station building, which took the place of the wooden one in 1986 (Showa 61). The station closed after its last day of service on 13 March 2020 (Reiwa 2), and the building was transferred from JR Hokkaido to the town and moved to the grounds of the Mashu tourism and culture center.

Guard's van as station building
Replaced the wooden building in 1986
Last day of service: 13 March 2020

02 ／ Wakoto Peninsula

The national description puts a peninsula with hot springsand vents in the Min-min cicada's northern-limit zone.

The Wakoto Min-min Cicada Habitat was designated a national natural monument on 9 June 1951 (Showa 26). Cultural Heritage Online's description says the Min-min cicada is a southern species found in southern Hokkaido, and that this habitat lies in the northern-limit zone of its range and is academically valuable.

National natural monument
Designated 9 June 1951
Northern-limit zone of its range

03 ／ Kawayu Onsen

The town's framework describes a hot spring where severalstreams blend with the surrounding conifers.

The town's local history says Kawayu had only one inn until the end of the Taisho era and began to flourish as a hot-spring town in the Showa era. The town's ecotourism framework describes a hot spring where several hot-spring streams blend with the surrounding conifers, and gives the spring temperature as 35 to 65.5 °C.

Only one inn until the late Taisho era
Several hot-spring streams
Spring temperature 35–65.5 °C

Teshikaga 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–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））

Open in GSI Maps (now)Open in GSI Maps (1974–78)

Living here

Mashu Station serves the center, about 80 minutes from Kushiro.

about 7,000 people
Rural district town

The town's access page tells visitors to the town center to use JR Mashu Station, and lists about 80 minutes on the JR Senmo Main Line from Kushiro Station. The town's moving-in FAQ says there are three JR stations in the town.

People living here: 6,955people
Area: 774.33km²
Households: 3,339households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 2 hospitals ／ 5 clinics

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: —

These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

Shape

Borders 7 municipalities.

Teshikaga Town in Japan43.485°N 144.459°E

Territory of Teshikaga 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

35.2km

Shibecha Town, Bihoro Town, Koshimizu Town, Kiyosato Town, Kushiro City, Tsubetsu Town, Nakashibetsu Town

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

Teshikaga Town isthis kind of town.

01Mt. Io (Atosa-nupuri) is a lava dome in Teshikaga Town, Hokkaido; the town's ecotourism framework says yellow needle-like sulfur crystals form around its vents, and the town has designated the vents a specified natural tourism resource
02The former Minami-Teshikaga Station used a scrapped guard's van as its building; the station closed in 2020 and the building was transferred to the town. The Wakoto Min-min Cicada Habitat on Wakoto Peninsula was designated a national natural monument in 1951
03The town's ecotourism framework describes Kawayu Onsen as a hot spring where several hot-spring streams blend with surrounding conifers; the town's access page tells visitors to the town center to use JR Mashu Station

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Teshikaga Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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