Sarufutsu (猿払村, Sarufutsu-mura) is a village located in Sōya Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.

Located on the Tonbetsu Plain, it faces the Sea of Okhotsk to the east where, during the winter, there is drift ice.

[4] Per Japanese census data, the population of Sarufutsu is as shown below: From around the middle of the Edo period, fishing grounds were established under a land contract system managed by Matsumae Domain.

In 1909 it was merged with neighboring Soya Village (now part of Wakkanai City), and separated back out as a second-class municipality in October 1924.

In 1936, a telephone relay station was established in Sarufutsu, which connected Karafuto with Honshu via a submarine cable.

[7] In June 1942, construction of the Asajino Airfield of the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force began.

[8] Sarufutsu has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral village council of eight members.

Sarufutsu, as part of Soya sub-prefecture, contributes one member to the Hokkaido Prefectural Assembly.

In terms of national politics, the village is part of the Hokkaido 12th district of the lower house of the Diet of Japan.