●The Tokachi River

・The Tokachi River in
the Four Seasons
・Natural surroundings
of the Tokachi River
・Profile of the Tokachi
River
・History of the Tokachi
River
・Quiz on the Tokachi
River

●The River Museum

●River events

●Tokachi River
Photo Gallery

●Art Contest of Rivers
in Tokachi

	contents
			■Historical sketch of the Tokachi River 　■Chronological table of floods

■A historical sketch of the Tokachi River

1875	The first public office for seven districts in Tokachi is established in the Village of Moyoro.
1879	Kikuhei Takeda immigrates to the City of Toshibetsubuto begin cultivating land in the area one after another.
1880	A plague of locusts appears in Kasai and Nakagawa districts in Tokachi Subprefecture and hits all parts of Hokkaido.
1883	Banseisha Immigration Group settles in Oberiberi.
1892	Construction begins on Otsu Highway (from Otsu to Memuro) by 700 prisoners of the Kushiro Branch Prison.
1895	The Hokkaido Shujikan Tokachi Branch Prison opened (renamed Tokachi Prison in 1903).
1896	Liberalization of the Tokachi Colonization Plots increases the number of farmers, organizations and individuals that settle in the area.
1897	The public office for Kasai and six other districts becomes the Kasai Subprefectural Government.
1901	Three men, including Shigematsu Niitsu in Toshibetsu are elected to the first Hokkaido Assembly.
1905	The Kaisei Bridge is built between Obihiro and Otofuke as the first bridge linking the two towns (the forerunner of the Tokachi Bridge).
1905	The Kushiro Line (the present Nemuro Main Line) between Kushiro and Obihiro opened.
1907	With the Karikachi Tunnel completed, the Tokachi Line between Asahikawa and Obihiro opened.
1910	The Abashiri Line (the present Furusato Ginga Line) between Ikeda and Rikubetsu opened.