01667 ／ つるいむら
Hokkaido 阿寒郡Cars of a line that ran about 40 years.
Tsurui village railway cars01 ／ Village Railway
The village's chronology records that the railway line opened in 1928 (Showa 3) was placed under village management in 1953 and that the village railway was closed entirely in 1968. A 2019 exhibition notice says it linked Tsurui and Kushiro for about 40 years.
02 ／ Kirakotan Cape
The village says a Hokkaido official, acting on local residents' reports, first confirmed red-crowned cranes in the wetland of the Chiruwatsunai River basin near Kirakotan Cape, and gives 1924 as the year of rediscovery. The trail to the cape is about 2 km one way; individual visitors need prior permission.
03 ／ The Village Name
The village's chronology records that on 1 April 1937 (Showa 12) it split from a neighboring village and took the name Tsurui, after the habitat and breeding ground of the red-crowned crane, a natural monument. The crane was designated a natural monument in 1935 and a special natural monument in 1952.
Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.
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））
Living here
There is no operating railway station in the village. In the timetable for the Akan Bus Tsurui Line (April to October 2026), the fastest daily service takes 65 minutes from Kushiro Station to Yakubamae, the village office stop. The gateway is the village office.
+0.9% since 2015
2,759 → 2,558
121km² of it habitable
2024
2.3 people per household
2020
7.8 per 10,000 people
2023
These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.
ACCESS
Travel times follow 阿寒バス『鶴居線・鶴野NT線』全停留所時刻表（日本語。https://www.akanbus.co.jp/route/pdf/time/tsurui.pdf・PDF 右下の日付 2025/2/12）と、同じ阿寒バスの英語の時刻表『Tsurui Line』（https://www.akanbus.co.jp/pdf/en/Tsurui-line.pdf・**『2026年4月1日～2026年10月31日』の期間つき**）。どちらも阿寒バスの定期路線バスのページ https://www.akanbus.co.jp/route/ から2026-10-29に取得。村公式プロフィール『鶴居村へのアクセス』は『釧路駅へは車で約60分』『バスの時刻表は阿寒バス』と書くだけで分数のあるバス区間は無い (checked 2026-10-29). They vary by time of day.
Shape
North to south
42.3km
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