Tokoro, Hokkaidō Prefecture, Hokkaido Region, Japan

Curling

🇯🇵 Tokoro is a small town, once was an independent administrative division located in Tokoro District, Abashiri Subprefecture (now Okhotsk Subprefecture), Hokkaido, Japan. On March 5, 2006, the division, along with the towns of Rubeshibe and Tanno (all from Tokoro District), was merged into a part of the expanded city of Kitami, and became Tokoro Town, Kitami City.

Curling The town had a strong association with the sport of curling following a friendship visit in 1980 by a curling team from Alberta in Canada. An outdoor curling rink was built the following year, and it hosted the 1st NHK Cup Curling Championship. In January 1988, the town built a dedicated 5-lane curling hall, the first in Japan. This eventually closed in early 2013, replaced by a new, larger, all-year-round structure.

Curling was introduced in schools in Tokoro as part of the physical education curriculum, and the two produced a number of Olympic curlers. Five members of the Japanese curling team at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano were from Tokoro, three members of the Japanese curling team at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino were from Tokoro, and three members of the Japanese curling team at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver were from Tokoro.

Asia/Tokyo/Hokkaido 
<b>Asia/Tokyo/Hokkaido</b>
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Tokoro has a population of over 4,885 people. Tokoro also forms part of the wider Okhotsk Subprefecture which has a population of over 309,487 people. Tokoro is situated near Abashiri.

Twin Towns - Sister Cities Tokoro has links with:

🇨🇦 Barrhead, Canada
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Antipodal to Tokoro is: -36.183,-44.017

Locations Near: Tokoro 143.817,44.0167

🇯🇵 Kitami 143.895,43.804 d: 24.5  

🇯🇵 Abashiri 144.267,44.017 d: 36  

🇯🇵 Kushiro 144.383,42.983 d: 123.6  

🇯🇵 Otofuke 143.2,43 d: 123.5  

🇯🇵 Obihiro 143.2,42.917 d: 132.1  

🇯🇵 Asahikawa 142.369,43.771 d: 119.2  

🇯🇵 Nemuro 145.567,43.317 d: 160.8  

🇯🇵 Rumoi 141.633,43.933 d: 175  

🇯🇵 Iwamizawa 141.783,43.2 d: 187.2  

🇯🇵 Ebetsu 141.533,43.1 d: 210.4  

Antipodal to: Tokoro -36.183,-44.017

🇨🇱 La Reina -33.45,-33.45 d: 18816.6  

🇧🇷 Rio Grande -52.099,-32.041 d: 18093.7  

🇧🇷 Tubarão -49,-28.467 d: 17944.4  

🇧🇷 Criciúma -49.372,-28.678 d: 17946.3  

🇧🇷 Pelotas -52.341,-31.763 d: 18055.4  

🇧🇷 Viamão -51.023,-30.088 d: 17988.7  

🇧🇷 Gravataí -50.983,-29.933 d: 17977  

🇧🇷 Alvorada -51.079,-30.001 d: 17977.7  

🇧🇷 Cachoeirinha -51.083,-29.95 d: 17972.8  

🇧🇷 Porto Alegre -51.229,-30.028 d: 17971.6  

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