Hokuto, Hokkaido

Hokuto
北斗市
City

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Location of Hokuto in Hokkaido (Oshima Subprefecture)
Hokuto

Location in Japan

Coordinates: 41°49′N 140°39′E / 41.817°N 140.650°E / 41.817; 140.650Coordinates: 41°49′N 140°39′E / 41.817°N 140.650°E / 41.817; 140.650
Country Japan
Region Hokkaido
Prefecture Hokkaido (Oshima Subprefecture)
Government
  Mayor Toshimine Takaya
Area
  Total 397.29 km2 (153.39 sq mi)
Population (March 31, 2008)
  Total 49,452
  Density 125/km2 (320/sq mi)
Symbols
  Tree Japanese Black Pine and Japanese beech
  Flower Spring: Sakura
Summer: Marigold
Autumn: Mukuge
Time zone Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)
City Hall Address 1-3-10 Chūō, Hokuto-shi, Hokkaidō
049-0192
Website www.city.hokuto.hokkaido.jp

Hokuto (北斗市 Hokuto-shi) is a city in the center of the Oshima Subprefecture in Japan's northern island of Hokkaido.[1] It serves as a bedroom community for Hakodate, to the east of the city.[2] Hokuto was formed on February 1, 2006 from merging the town of Kamiiso, from Kamiiso District, and the town of Ōno, from Kameda District. Hokuto is the third city to be established in Oshima. (The second, Kameda City, no longer exists being dissolved just two years after its founding in 1971.) Hokuto is the second largest city in Oshima by population after Hakodate.[1]

Geography

Hokuto is in the middle of Oshima, a peninsula in Hokkaido's south. The southeast portion is mostly plains and the western part is more mountainous. The south borders the Hakodate Bay. The Ōno River runs north and south through the middle of Hokuto.

Neighboring regions

History

Transportation

Rail

Oshima-Ōno Station is scheduled to be rebuilt and renamed Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station by the time the Hokkaido Shinkansen in March 2016.

Road

Education

High schools

References

  1. 1 2 "北斗(市)" [Hokuto]. Nihon Daihyakka Zensho (Nipponika) (in Japanese). Tokyo: Shogakukan. 2012. OCLC 153301537. Retrieved 2012-12-02.
  2. "上磯" [Kamiiso]. Nihon Daihyakka Zensho (Nipponika) (in Japanese). Tokyo: Shogakukan. 2012. OCLC 153301537. Retrieved 2012-12-02.

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