01431 ／ うらうすちょう
Hokkaido 樺戸郡Flowers carpet a shrine on donated land.
Urausu Shrine, dogtooth violets01 ／ Sapporo soft stone
The shop is built of Sapporo soft stone. Its storehouse has a finish cut with diagonal ridges, while the shop front is smooth, and the front dates to the early Showa period. The town's booklet says a warehouse by the former station uses stone 15 cm thick, half the shop's 30 cm.
02 ／ Oxbow lakes
The town's booklet says eight oxbow lakes, large and small, lie in a row over about 10 km, from Pira Numa, the farthest upstream along the Ishikari River, to a pair of lakes at the other end. It calls them naturally formed, in one of the few areas in Japan where they are so dense.
03 ／ Church
The town's booklet says a proper hall was built near the oxbow lake Urausu Numa in 1897 and moved to the present site in 1906. The current hall of 1959 was built with volunteer labor by members, and the booklet names the former Sapporo Kita-Ichijo church as its model.
Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.
Wide (about 6 km across)
Close (about 1.5 km across)
Now (shot September 2009)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 railway station in the town; the Sassho Line ran until 2020. The town bus on the Urausu-Takikawa route takes at best 34 minutes from Urausu Town Office stop to Takikawa Station. The town covers 101.83 km2 and says Sapporo is about 65 km away and Asahikawa 70 km.
−12.7% since 2015
2,854 → 1,732
52.95km² of it habitable
2024
2.2 people per household
2020
17.3 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 浦臼町営バス『浦臼滝川線』の時刻表（町公式『交通アクセス』から PDF。『令和８年10月１日現在』）。全日運行の便の最速（浦臼役場前→滝川駅前34分・滝川駅前→浦臼役場前33分） (checked 2026-10-29). They vary by time of day.
Shape
North to south
16.1km
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