Area 397.3 km² Local time Monday 6:22 PM | Population 47,245 (30 Sep 2016) | |
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Time zone Japan Standard Time (UTC+9) City hall address 1-3-10 Chūō, Hokuto-shi, Hokkaidō049-0192 Website www.city.hokuto.hokkaido.jp Weather 2°C, Wind E at 11 km/h, 83% Humidity Prefecture Hokkaido (Oshima Subprefecture) | ||
Hokuto (北斗市, Hokuto-shi) is a city in the center of the Oshima Subprefecture in Japan's northern island of Hokkaido. It serves as a bedroom community for Hakodate, to the east of the city. 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.
Contents
- Map of Hokuto Hokkaido Prefecture Japan
- Geography
- Neighboring regions
- History
- Rail
- Road
- High schools
- References
Map of Hokuto, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan
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
Rail
Oshima-Ōno Station was scheduled to be rebuilt and renamed Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station by the time the Hokkaido Shinkansen in March 2016.