Haboro, Hokkaido

Haboro (羽幌町, Haboro-chō) is a town located in Rumoi Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.

[1] In Japanese, the name of the town is written with ateji, or kanji characters used to phonetically represent native or borrowed words.

Haboro has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral town council of nine members.

Haboro, as part of Rumoi sub-prefecture, contributes one member to the Hokkaidō Prefectural Assembly.

In terms of national politics, the town is part of the Hokkaidō 10th district of the lower house of the Diet of Japan.

The local economy of Haboro is centered on commercial fishing and agriculture, and there are attempts to develop the tourism industry, taking advantage of the coal mine remnants and the Shokanbetsu-Teuri-Yagishiri Quasi-National Park Haboro has three public elementary schools and three public junior high schools operated by the town government, and two public high schoolsoperated by the Hokkaidō Board of Education.

The Japanese National Railways Haboro Line [ja] extended 141.1 km between Rumoi and Horonobe.

Construction on the line dated to 1927, but it was discontinued in 1987 with the establishment of JR Hokkaido during the privatization of Japanese National Railways.

Awaiwa on Teuri Island
Haboro town center area
Teuri High School, Teuri Island, Haboro
Abandoned rail tunnel of the JNR Haboro Line
Orobo, the town's mascot