Yūbari, Hokkaido

The city was founded on April 1, 1943, as a coal mining town. When the mines were operating Yūbari had as many as 120,000 people. With the closing of the colliery in the 1980s, an attempt was made to convert the economic base to tourism. Subsidies were obtained from the central government and huge debts incurred for the building of tourist attractions, but few visitors came. In 2007 the city was in the news due to bankruptcy and the refusal of the national government to bail it out. City services had been severely cut and its white elephant amusement park and museums were up for sale."Tokyo Cuts Aid, and Hinterland Withers in Japan", article by Norimitsu Onish in the New York Times, January 27, 2007 The amusement park has begun to be demolished as of June 2008.[http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200806060089.html asahi.com： In Yubari, even less amusement now, June 6, 2008] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080607095328/http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200806060089.html |date=June 7, 2008 }}

Roughly half of Yūbari's government officials resigned in March 2007 as part of an attempt to streamline the local fiscal situation. The majority of officials stepping down who responded to a survey conducted by Mainichi Shimbun say they "feel no sense of responsibility" for the city's financial problems."[http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20070307p2a00m0na002000c.html Most high-ranking officials of bankrupt municipal gov't feel no sense of responsibility], Mainichi Daily News, March 7, 2007.{{Dead link|date=April 2010}}

• Mountain : Mount Yūbari
• River : Yūbari River

{{Weather box

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|single line = Y

|metric first = Y

|location = Yūbari (1991−2020 normals, extremes 1976−present)

|Jan high C = -2.7

|Feb high C = -1.7

|Mar high C = 2.4

|Apr high C = 9.9

|May high C = 17.0

|Jun high C = 20.6

|Jul high C = 23.7

|Aug high C = 24.4

|Sep high C = 20.7

|Oct high C = 14.1

|Nov high C = 6.3

|Dec high C = -0.6

|Jan mean C = -6.6

|Feb mean C = -6.0

|Mar mean C = -1.8

|Apr mean C = 4.5

|May mean C = 10.9

|Jun mean C = 15.0

|Jul mean C = 18.8

|Aug mean C = 19.6

|Sep mean C = 15.6

|Oct mean C = 8.9

|Nov mean C = 2.1

|Dec mean C = -4.2

|Jan low C = -11.1

|Feb low C = -10.8

|Mar low C = -6.4

|Apr low C = -0.3

|May low C = 5.5

|Jun low C = 10.5

|Jul low C = 15.2

|Aug low C = 16.0

|Sep low C = 11.3

|Oct low C = 4.2

|Nov low C = -1.8

|Dec low C = -8.1

|Jan record high C = 6.6

|Feb record high C = 11.6

|Mar record high C = 14.4

|Apr record high C = 26.2

|May record high C = 31.3

|Jun record high C = 31.6

|Jul record high C = 35.0

|Aug record high C = 34.9

|Sep record high C = 31.5

|Oct record high C = 24.4

|Nov record high C = 19.0

|Dec record high C = 11.5

|year record high C= 35.0

|Jan record low C = -21.6

|Feb record low C = -23.6

|Mar record low C = -19.5

|Apr record low C = -13.8

|May record low C = -2.8

|Jun record low C = 1.2

|Jul record low C = 5.1

|Aug record low C = 7.1

|Sep record low C = 0.2

|Oct record low C = -3.8

|Nov record low C = -13.3

|Dec record low C = -19.0

|year record low C= -23.6

|precipitation colour = green

|Jan precipitation mm = 115.3

|Feb precipitation mm = 82.0

|Mar precipitation mm = 78.5

|Apr precipitation mm = 78.4

|May precipitation mm = 107.1

|Jun precipitation mm = 86.4

|Jul precipitation mm = 129.8

|Aug precipitation mm = 185.6

|Sep precipitation mm = 156.0

|Oct precipitation mm = 119.7

|Nov precipitation mm = 129.5

|Dec precipitation mm = 131.5

|year precipitation mm=

|Jan rain days = 19.0

|Feb rain days = 16.3

|Mar rain days = 14.9

|Apr rain days = 12.5

|May rain days = 12.0

|Jun rain days = 10.1

|Jul rain days = 10.8

|Aug rain days = 12.3

|Sep rain days = 12.2

|Oct rain days = 14.5

|Nov rain days = 17.0

|Dec rain days = 20.2

|Jan snow cm = 225

|Feb snow cm = 172

|Mar snow cm = 132

|Apr snow cm = 34

|May snow cm = 0

|Jun snow cm = 0

|Jul snow cm = 0

|Aug snow cm = 0

|Sep snow cm = 0

|Oct snow cm = 3

|Nov snow cm = 84

|Dec snow cm = 230

|year snow cm=

|Jan snow days = 18.7

|Feb snow days = 16.4

|Mar snow days = 14.5

|Apr snow days = 5.0

|May snow days = 0

|Jun snow days = 0

|Jul snow days = 0

|Aug snow days = 0

|Sep snow days = 0

|Oct snow days = 0.4

|Nov snow days = 6.6

|Dec snow days = 18.7

|Jan sun = 94.7

|Feb sun = 103.7

|Mar sun = 142.5

|Apr sun = 160.4

|May sun = 186.1

|Jun sun = 160.8

|Jul sun = 132.8

|Aug sun = 142.0

|Sep sun = 153.7

|Oct sun = 134.9

|Nov sun = 90.9

|Dec sun = 80.1

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Per Japanese census data, the population has been rapidly declining since 1960.{{Historical populations|1950|99,530|1960|107,972|1970|69,871|1980|41,715|1990|20,969|2000|14,791|2010|10,922|2020|7,334|2024|6,374|align=none|source=Censuses{{Cite web|url=https://www.stat.go.jp/english/index.html|title=Statistics Bureau Home Page|website=www.stat.go.jp}}{{cite web |url= http://www.city.yubari.lg.jp|title= Official website of Yūbari City|publisher= Yūbari City|location= Japan|language= ja|access-date= 31 January 2024}}}}

• Kuriyama Police Station (Main station is Kuriyama Town)
• Yubari Police Building (Former Yubari Police Station)
• Shimizusawa Police Box, Wakana Police Box
• Nambu Residential Station, Numanosawa Residential Station, Momijiyama Residential Station

• Hokkaido Yubari High School
• Hokkaido Yubari Special High School

• Yubari Junior High School

• Yubari Elementary High School

File:Panoramic view of Yuni-cho, Yubari-gun, Hokkaido, Japan.jpg

The central train station was Yūbari Station on the Yubari branch of the Sekishō Line, formerly operated by JR Hokkaido. However, on March 31, 2019, the Yubari branch line closed after 127 years of operation,"JR Hokkaido's Yubari Line: A Beloved Local Line Comes to an End", NHK World TV Japan Railway Journal (August 09 2019) https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/2049066/ requiring passengers from Yubari to take a bus to Shin-Yūbari Station.

• Sekishō Line (Main Line) : Takinoue - Tomisato - Shin-Yūbari - (Kaede Passing Loop)
• Sekishō Line (Yūbari Branch Line - now closed): Shin-Yūbari - Numanosawa - Minami-Shimizusawa - Shimizusawa - Shikanotani - Yūbari

• Dōtō Expressway : Yūbari IC

• Hokkaido Chuo Bus
• Yubari Tetsudo

• {{flagicon|PRC}} Fushun, Liaoning, China (since April 1982)

• Furano-Ashibetsu Prefectural Natural Park
• Ishikari coalfield
• Ōyūbari Dam

{{Reflist}}

• Kazama Kensuke. Kazama Kensuke shashinshū: Yūbari (風間健介写真集：夕張) / Kensuke Kazama Photographic Collection: Yubari. Sapporo: Jyuryousya, 2005. {{ISBN|4-902269-14-7}}. A collection of Kensuke Kazama's black-and-white photographs of Yūbari and its mines after their closure. All text and captions in both Japanese and English.
• Toda Reiko. Yūbari tankōbushi (夕張炭坑節, Song of the Yūbari mines). Tokyo: Shobunsha, 1985. {{ISBN|4-7949-7009-9}}. Black-and-white photo documentary of the last five hundred days of mining in Yūbari, a period during which a disaster occurred.{{in lang|ja}}

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• [http://www.city.yubari.lg.jp/ Official Website] {{in lang|ja}}

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