01 ／ Furuyama pond
In the Meiji 30s (late 1890s to 1900s), more people took up rice paddies, and Yuni Village planned with Tsunoda Village to dam the Yubari River, but the high ground made it hard. So the Yuni Village Irrigation Association built a large pond at Furuyama, the town says.
02 ／ Shrine forest
Yuni Shrine adjoins the town center, and a place for relaxing around it was wanted. The town held resident workshops for three years, and a Hokkaido project built the path over three years from 1999. It is 1,200 m long, and the town chronology says reconstruction of the shrine hall was completed in 1904.
03 ／ Poppokan Yuni
Yuni Station was created when the railway between Muroran and Iwamizawa opened on August 1, 1892. Known as Poppokan Yuni, the hall was completed on that building's site in December 2006. It is a waiting room for JR, Chuo Bus and demand buses, and a tourist information office.
Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.
Wide (about 6 km across)
Close (about 1.5 km across)
Now (shot June–September 2015)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 says it lies at the southern tip of the Sorachi area, 8 km east to west and 32 km north to south, with a total area of 133.74 km², shaped like a gourd. Four JR stations are in town, three on the Muroran Main Line and Kawabata on the Sekisho Line, and they appear in the JR Hokkaido timetable for October 2026.
−9.3% since 2015
7,250 → 4,822
85.59km² of it habitable
2024
2.3 people per household
2020
12.4 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
24.0km
Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.
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