Hokkaido"nature & sightseeing" Information

　Use of local ingredients! Transmit "unique food culture", Kitami-city

■ Kitami

　　　　Kitami which spreads from the southern coast of the Saroma lake facing the Sea of Okhotsk in Hokkaido to the inland side They are a population of 120,000, and a central city in the Sea of Okhotsk. The ground is prosperous in an agro, a fishing, and a livestock industry, and the "gastronomic cultures" which is full of charm, such as a characterful this place gourmet "fried noodles" using local foods, is born on it.

　　　　Moreover, We succeed the flow which prospered as a land of origin of the No.1 peppermint of the world once, the measure that We will make it the town of a "herb" which is fragrant and drifts is taken, and also there are an aquarium etc. which can observe the fishs of a mountain stream and We are continuing development as an attractive tourist resort.


　　　　　　　　　Kitami

　　　　　Furthermore, it is although Kitami is known as a strong point of "curling",The motion used as the charm of sightseeing new as "the city of curling" is also active taking advantage of the woman team formed by the local graduate person having participated in the Winter Olympics opened in South Korea in 2018, and having gained the bronze medal.

■ Charm

▼Charm Part 1..."The food culture which Kitami is proud of"

　　　　　Kitami has had complete set of various foods which form a food culture. Delicacies from the mountains, such as a "scallop" which can be taken in the Saroma lake including agricultural products including the "onion" which is proud of the No.1 product of Japan, and other meat, and delicacies from the sea are abundant.


　The "onion" which is proud of the No.1 turnover of Japan

　　　　In intense cold land called Kitami, the food culture which harnessed such foods was concerned, and has been been and born by various forms. 。


- King of the local gourmet"Okhotsk Kitami salt-fried noodles"

　　　　　It is the "Okhotsk Kitami salt-fried noodles" that represents the food culture of Kitami. in Heisei 19, We led "as the town revitalization project through the foods" it was developed with the enterprise and We came out brilliantly.


"Okhotsk Kitami salt-fried noodles"

　　　 In the "Okhotsk Kitami salt-fried noodles", "a definition and rule 8 article" are detaermined rules.

　　　First, the wheat of the materials of noodles is a product from Hokkaido, and the "scallop" to which the body from Okhotsk became tight instead of the porc,Instead of a cabbage, the "onion" of the turnover No.1 Kitami of Japan and also seasoning pierced through the characterful gastronomic culture using local foods centering on Kitami, and considering it as the "salt" instead of sauce etc. is sending them. Also nationally as this place gourmet, We are known.

- "The Kitami style and grilled meat culture"

　　　　　Kitami is known as "the city of grilled meat" with many beef barbecue restaurants considering population. They are a little more than 70 roast meat specialty stores to a population of 120,000. When seeing it per population 10,000 people, in Sapporo, We are"about 1.6 houses" to "about six houses" of Kitami, and the number of the stores per population is Hokkaido 1.


"it is grilled meat at a "Charcoal fire"

　　The material of fresh grilled meat

　　　　The Kitami's style surrounds a charcoal fire and grilled meat etc., and the grill meat culture characterful to Kitami of talking together is succeeded, attaching to "raw Darre（such a sauce）" using fruit or an onion, and eating.


-The event of the "food"

　　　　The food culture of Kitami showed development with the rise of use by the kind and quantity of local foods being abundant, and the event which many people can enjoy was produced one after another.

▽Event Part 1..."an intense cold grilled meat festival"

　　　　"An intense cold grilled meat festival" performed in the city central part in the coldest February among an every year and all the year rounds is a "grill meat" event in the outdoors performed by not only a citizen but transfer fellows, business trip fellows, etc. joining.

　　　　We can enjoy the grill meat culture which Kitami of being worn and attached to meat is proud of, putting up with cold, while wearing heavy winter clothing, many people's gathering and the smoke of grill meat hanging over thickly.


"An intense cold grilled meat festival"
(every year February)


▽Event Part 2..."curry-and-rice marathon"

　　　　Curry-and-rice marathon is the event performed to nine midmonths in the agricultural prosperous Tanno area every year.


"Material collection" curry-and-rice marathon

　　　　　We collect materials, such as the meat and the potato which four persons, such as a family, a friend, a company, need for making the curry and rice which the number of is one and are placed on the marathon course, a carrot, and an onion, jogging, We bring home, actually cook, and compete for the performance of curry and rice.


　Cooperate all together! Production of curry and rice

　　　　Although it started at first to enjoy autumn of harvest by local people, it comes to be known in the whole of Hokkaido now, and We show popularity as an event representing the food culture of Kitami.


▼Charm Part 2...City planning in which the scent of herbs drifts

　　　　　Although Kitami greatly prospered as a town which mint is fragrant with the large land of origin which occupies 70% of mint production in the world, and drifts in it at the start time of Showa, demand decreases after that and the scent of mint is disappearing from a town.


The No.1 production once of the world "flower of mint"

　　　　Then, We obtain a collaboration of inauguration, a citizen, and a company for "the city planning screw style which We are fragrant and color", inherit the history of the mint of Kitami, and are furthering in Kitami the city planning promposal under which We spread a herb (mint is also a group of a herb) as new scent culture.

　　　　As a center of the enterprise, from Heisei 6, We improve a "Kaoryanse park" to a 10ha [ of a dry riverbed in the city ] a little more than site, and many kinds, such as Mint, a Rosemarie of herbs including
a Dyers Chamomile are planted in it like an every year.


　　　　　　"Kaoryanse park"

　　　　A herb begins to bloom one after another for every season, and We set coolness and a spicy scent adrift, and are making people relax in a park.


　　　　 　"Dyers Chamomile"

　　　　In order to enliven the city planning enterprise of this herb which is fragrant and drifts, We get many citizens, such as holding a how [ to cultivate into seven midmonths every year the event a "Kaoryanse festival", or a herb ] school, to get people familiar with herbs .


The herb enterprise PR in various events.


- "Kitami Mint Memorial Museum"

　　　　Various measures, such as experience which takes out "mint oil" from the leaf of mint, are also taken even in the built "Kitami Mint Memorial Museum" which will leave the history of the once Mint culture by such new one side of a motion.


　　　"Kitami Mint Memorial Museum"

　 Here,if reserves experience which exracts mint will also be made.

▼Charm Part 3..."The aquarium of a mountain"

　　　　The aquarium "aquarium of a mountain" of the septentrional ground is located in the Onneyu hot-springs resort division known as a Hot-Springs Resort .
　　　
　　The charm ... It is that the tank is devised when We will have the ecology of a fish seen with reality.


　　　　　"The aquarium of a mountain"

The tank which the appearance of the fish of the basin of a waterfall can observe

　Intense-cold term "Appearance of Hucho perryi "



▼Charm Part 4..."Wakka Gensei-kaen"

　　　　"Wakka Gensei-kaen" is located in the sandbar zone of the Saroma lake in the Kitami Tokoro area, and is contained in the area in "Abashiri Quasi-National Park."


　　　　　 "Wakka Gensei-kaen"

　　　　300 sorts of flowers, such as Rugosa Rose and Ezosukashiyuri, bloom all over from the end of April to the end of September every year.

　　　　Moreover, it is an nature treasury that it is also a breeding ground of a wild bird etc. The sightseeing carriage also operates.


The setting sun which falls to the Saroma lake

　　　　　It is popularity also as a spot of the setting sun which falls to the Saroma lake.


▼Charm Part 5...as a new sightseeing spot "city of curling"

　　　　　The curling place equipped with the institution which can perform the game of formal curling is installed in the Kitami Tokoro area, and many players who grew up here are playing an active part in it in the whole country.


　　　　"Curling place" (Tokoro-cho, Kitami)

　　　　The woman team "LS Kitami" formed by the players of the Kitami native which makes this curling place headquarters participates in "curling" of the Winter Olympics held by South Korea and a Pyeongchang in February, 2018, and We demonstrate a daily result, and brilliant! We gained the bronze medal.

　　　　We are an owner of respectively rich individuality, and this team shared language with a characterful accent, the figure which is eating local sweets at the recess was frequently introduced on television etc., and the popular person became [ five players ] suddenly.

　　　　Furthermore, sweets local sold and We became insufficient, and also that goods curling-related [ various ] also appeared on the market also brings about a ripple effect, and the inquiry at a curling place and its tourist that drops in are also increasing, and it has required expectation as a charm of the new Kitami sightseeing.


The curling place whose tourist is beginning to increase

　　　　However, even though it receives [ a curling place ] a lesson, while it is a full reservation system, subjects which must be cleared immediately -- whether what we do with correspondence of the tourist who drops in by inspection suddenly -- are also coming out of it.

 

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▼ Kitami-city commerce-and-industry Tourism Department ... 0157-25-1244

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