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01483 ／とままえちょう

Hokkaido 苫前郡

Tomamae Town

White sand turns pink in the sunset.

Sunset Hill White Beach

Photo by Peter Nichols (CC BY 3.0)

01 ／ Satsumon house

The town says cooking stoves in Hokkaidoare seen only in the Satsumon era.

The ancient village has two reconstructed dwellings, which cannot be entered. The Satsumon house dates from about the 10th century: a square floor, a hearth in the center, a stove in the wall and four main posts. The town says cooking stoves are seen in Hokkaido only in this era.

Dwelling of about the 10th century
Four main posts, stove in the wall
Two reconstructed dwellings

02 ／ Place names

A village name in Kuwana Districtbecame a Tomamae settlement name.

In 1896, people from Nagashima Village in Kuwana District settled in Tomamae as the Nagashima group, and the site is now the Nagashima district. In a round-table talk in a Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism magazine, the settlement opened by a group from another village in Kuwana District is named after that village, and a Mie group opened another.

1896: Nagashima group settles
25 households in the Nagashima group
Now the Nagashima district

03 ／ Kotanbetsu Midorigaoka Park

A park marking 100 years of Hokkaidonow holds 1,000 trees.

The park was set up in August 1968 to mark 100 years of Hokkaido and 20 years since Tomamae became a town. Edo yamazakura cherries, magnolias, rowans and others total 1,000 trees, and daffodils, tulips and wisteria also bloom.

Set up August 1968
1,000 trees planted
8,902 square meters

Tomamae 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 June–July 2025)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 railway station; reached by bus.

about 3,000 people
Rural district town

There is no railway station in the town, and the town says buses are the convenient way to reach it. It notes that the JR Rumoi Line between Ishikari-Numata and Rumoi was closed on April 1, 2023, and lists bus connections from Sapporo and Asahikawa.

People living here: 2,936people
Area: 454.6km²
Households: 1,347households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 3 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 3 municipalities.

Tomamae Town in Japan44.306°N 141.653°E

Territory of Tomamae 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

28.5km

Obira Town, Haboro Town, Horokanai Town

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

Tomamae Town isthis kind of town.

01The white beach, with 1,000 square meters of white sand in Sakaehama, Tomamae, is a swimming beach; the town says sand lit by the sunset turns pink
02The ancient village has Satsumon and Jomon dwellings, names of villages in Kuwana District survive as settlement names, and the park holds 1,000 trees
03The town has no railway station, and the town says buses are the convenient way to reach it

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Tomamae Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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