Tokyo Calling : Another Landscape of Japan » BACKCOUNTRY http://tokyo-calling.com Find Your Unexpected Japan Wed, 26 Sep 2018 07:44:53 +0000 ja hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 BACKCOUNTRY SNOWBOARD / FURANO HOKKAIDO http://tokyo-calling.com/backcountry-snowboard-furano-hokkaido.html http://tokyo-calling.com/backcountry-snowboard-furano-hokkaido.html#comments Thu, 29 Jan 2015 17:15:42 +0000 http://tokyo-calling.com/?p=317 Furano (富良野市 Furano-shi) is a city in the prefecture of Hokkaido located in the southern reaches of Kamikawa Subprefecture, under whose jurisdiction it resides. Well known throughout Japan as a tourism destination, it is famous for its lavender fields, the television drama Kita no Kuni kara and the Furano Ski Resort, which held the Snowboarding World Cup in recent years.

As of 2009, the city has an estimated population of 24,493 and a density of 40.8 persons per km² (106 persons per sq. mi.). The total area is 600.97 km2 (232.04 sq mi).

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