Tokoro (常呂町, Tokoro-chō) is a small town, formerly 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.
[2] This eventually closed in early 2013, replaced by a new, larger, all-year-round structure.
[2] Curling was introduced in schools in Tokoro as part of the physical education curriculum, and the two produced a number of Olympic curlers.
[1] 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.