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Kitami Peppermint Memorial Hall

Kitami Peppermint Memorial Hall (北見ハッカ記念館) is a tourist facility near Kitami Station in the center of Kitami city, and the distance is about 1 km from there to here. It has been opened since 1986. About 20,000 tourists come. The Kitami is well-known as a peppermint town, and 70% peppermint in the world once was produced in the Kitami area because cultivation of the peppermint was prosperous in old days. This place was built in a special product's memory. There are 2 buildings, Peppermint Memorial Hall (ハッカ記念館) and Peppermint Distillation Hall (ハッカ蒸溜館) at the site, and the Peppermint Memorial Hall has been designed as a modernization period monument since 2007. Herbs are planted around the buildings, and the peppermin and the herbs of the Kitami was chosen as one of The Most Tasteful 100 Landscapes. Admission free. A parking lot is free of charge. Maybe visitors can look around for 60 minutes.

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Movie of Kitami Peppermint Memorial Hall

A direct bus does not run between Sapporo or New Chitose Airport and the Kitami Peppermint Memorial Hall. But an express bus "Dollymint Okhotsk-go (ドリーミントオホーツク号)" runs between the Sapporo and the Kitami, and Limited Express Sekihoku-go (特急石北号), an express bus, runs between the Kitami and Asahikawa, and Senpoku-go (釧北号), an express bus, runs between the Kitami and Kushiro.

List of Highway Bus

Refer to following companies for the highway bus service between the Kitami and the Sapporo, the Asahikawa and the Kushiro.

Chuo Bus(中央バス)	From Sapporo to Kitami	HP	Jalan	Rakuten
Chuo Bus(中央バス)	From Kitami to Sapporo	HP	Jalan	Rakuten
Hokkaido Kitami Bus(北海道北見バス)	From Asahikawa to Kitami	HP	Jalan	Rakuten
Hokkaido Kitami Bus(北海道北見バス)	From Kitami to Asahikawa	HP	Jalan	Rakuten
Akan Bus(阿寒バス)	From Kushiro to Kitami	HP	Jalan	Rakuten
Akan Bus(阿寒バス)	From Kitami to Kushiro	HP	Jalan	Rakuten

KITAMI

Kitami (北見) that about 120,000 people live is the 9th largest commercial city in Hokkaido, and is one of regional hub cities of the Northeastern Hokkaido area. The Kitami became incorporated with Rubeshibe town (留辺蘂), Tanno town (端野) and Tokoro town (常呂) in 2006, and has became the largest city by area in the Hokkaido. In Japan, it is the 4th latgest city by the area. The Kitami is also an agriculture city, and Onion and White Runner Bean are famous as a local product. As for a climate, it is hot that temperature rises to nearly 30 degrees in a summer, and it is cold that temperature falls to nearly -25 degrees in a winter, and it snow hard, too. Article is here