5-555: Shimukappu ( 占冠村 , Shimukappu-mura ) is a village located in Kamikawa Subprefecture , Hokkaido , Japan . As of September 2016, the village has an estimated population of 1,251 and a density of 2.2 persons per km². The total area is 571.31 km². Tomamu in the eastern part of the village area is the site of the Hoshino Resorts Tomamu, one of Hokkaido's major ski resorts, located on
10-924: A village's extent is contained within a prefecture. Villages are larger than a local settlement; each is a subdivision of rural district ( 郡 , gun ) , which are subdivided into towns and villages with no overlap and no uncovered area. As a result of mergers and elevation to higher statuses, the number of villages in Japan is decreasing. As of 2006, 13 prefectures no longer have any villages: Tochigi (since March 20, 2006), Fukui (since March 3, 2006), Ishikawa (since March 1, 2005), Shizuoka (since July 1, 2005), Hyōgo (since April 1, 1999), Mie (since November 1, 2005), Shiga (since January 1, 2005), Hiroshima (since November 5, 2004), Yamaguchi (since March 20, 2006), Ehime (since January 16, 2005), Kagawa (since April 1, 1999), Nagasaki (since October 1, 2005), and Saga (since March 20, 2006). Atarashiki-mura (which
15-616: Is a Japanese sable with a pretty but sporty personality. She likes outdoor activities such as skiing and snowboarding. Her favorite food is milk. She was unveiled on 2 August 2014. [REDACTED] Media related to Shimukappu, Hokkaidō at Wikimedia Commons List of villages in Japan A village ( 村 , mura ) is a local administrative unit in Japan . It is a local public body along with prefecture ( 県 , ken , or other equivalents) , city ( 市 , shi ) , and town ( 町 , chō , sometimes machi ) . Geographically,
20-628: Is the location of a new nature reserve, called the Horoka Tomamu Montane Forest, established in 2010, by the United Nations International Year of Biodiversity . According to the Köppen climate classification , Shimukappu features a humid continental climate ( Dfb ) with warm, wet summers and cold, extremely snowy winters. Shimukappu's mascot is Shimukappy ( しむかっぴー , Shimukappiｰ ) . She
25-480: The southern slopes of Mount Tomamu . The resort is dominated by four 40-storey (121 metre) high-rise towers built during the boom of the late 1980s. The exteriors of these buildings have recently been redecorated by Klein Dytham architecture (KDa) of Shibuya, Tokyo to make them harmonize better with their surroundings. Shimukappu and Tomamu have a student exchange/sister city program with Aspen, Colorado . Shimukappu
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