21 Facts About Hokkaido

Largest city on Hokkaido is its capital, Sapporo, which is its only ordinance-designated city.

In contrast to the island of Honshu, Hokkaido saw an absence of conflict during this time period.

In mid-July 1945, various shipping ports, cities, and military facilities in Hokkaido were attacked by the United States Navy's Task Force 38.

Hokkaido became equal with other prefectures in 1947, when the revised Local Autonomy Law became effective.

Hokkaido has the third-largest population of Japan's five main islands, with 5, 383, 579 people as of 2015.

Related searches

The Hokkaido brown bear is separated into three distinct lineages.

Hokkaido is one of eight prefectures in Japan that have subprefectures.

Subprefectural offices in Hokkaido carry out many of the duties that prefectural offices fulfill elsewhere in Japan.

Northern portion of Hokkaido falls into the taiga biome with significant snowfall.

Hokkaido celebrates its winter weather at the Sapporo Snow Festival.

Hokkaido's largest city is the capital, Sapporo, which is a designated city.

The average farm size in Hokkaido is 26 hectares per farmer in 2013, which is almost 11 times bigger than the national average of 2.

Hokkaido can be reached by ferry from Sendai, Niigata and some other cities, with the ferries from Tokyo dealing only in cargo.

The Hokkaido Shinkansen takes passengers from Tokyo to near Hakodate in slightly over four hours.

Hokkaido is home to one of Japan's Melody Roads, which is made from grooves cut into the ground, which when driven over causes a tactile vibration and audible rumbling transmitted through the wheels into the car body.

Hokkaido has 37 universities, 34 junior colleges, and 5 colleges of technology (4 national and 1 local public colleges).

Hokkaido has relationships with several provinces, states, and other entities worldwide.

Hokkaido won the governorship in the gubernatorial election in 2019 as an independent.

In 1959, Machimura had defeated Yokomichi's father Setsuo in the race to succeed Hokkaido's first elected governor, Socialist Toshibumi Tanaka who retired after three terms.

General elections for the Hokkaido assembly are currently held together with gubernatorial elections in the unified local elections.

Lower house of the National Diet, Hokkaido is divided into twelve single-member electoral districts.