01 ／ Toyotomi Onsen
The Toyotomi Tourism Association's onsen site says test drilling for oil began in 1925 (Taisho 14), and in May of the next year hot water at 43 degrees C burst out from about 960 m underground with high-pressure natural gas. The town says all its waters are cloudy yellow and contain a little oil.
02 ／ Sarobetsu Plain
The Ministry of the Environment's leaflet describes the Sarobetsu Plain as a peat wetland where a raised bog, among the largest of Japan's lowland wetlands, remains. It was registered as a Ramsar site on 8 November 2005, and boardwalks run around the Wetland Center on its north side.
03 ／ Wakasakunai Coastal Dune Forest
Bunka Isan Online describes the Wakasakunai Coastal Dune Forest, a Hokkaido-designated natural monument, as a dune forest running 1.6 to 2 km wide and 20 km long, with more than 100 ponds and marshes between it and the plain. Trees growing in a band along the coast all lean east in the sea wind.
Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.
Wide (about 6 km across)
Close (about 1.5 km across)
Now (shot July–August 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））
Living here
The town's access guide (updated 14 June 2021) gives Wakkanai Station to Toyotomi Station as 43.5 km, about 50 minutes by local train, and about 4 hours 30 minutes by limited express from Sapporo Station. The town has two JR stations on the Soya Main Line: Toyotomi and Kabutonuma.
−2% since 2015
5,504 → 3,974
240.78km² of it habitable
2024
2.0 people per household
2020
7.5 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
27.0km
Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.
See the town as it is now.
Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)
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