The Horonobe Tonakai Reindeer Ranch/Farm

Phone: 01632-5-2050

Address: 398 Hokushin, Horonobe, Teshio District, Hokkaido 098-3224

Open: 9am to 5pm / Lunchtime 11am to 2pm (Last Order 2pm) Cafe 2pm to 4pm (Last Order 4pm)

Closed: Closed every Monday (*If Monday is a public holiday, it will be closed the following day) Year-end and New Year holidays (12/31, 1/1-5) *May be temporarily closed due to bad weather.

Charge: Entry is free / Reindeer Food: 200 Yen Per Bag / Reindeer Sled (Winter Only) Adults 510 yen Elementary School Students 200 yen * Free for children under elementary school age. *Time: 10am to 4pm *The service may not be available depending on the weather. Please check in advance.

URL: http://tonakai-farm.com/

For The Taxi Driver:
〒098-3224北海道天塩郡幌延町字北進398番地

GPS: 45.04092864403352, 141.8612385308876

The relationship between Horonobe and reindeer did not start with this tourist ranch, but rather with a man from Gifu Prefecture who left his job to study reindeer breeding in Finland. He then found a suitable place in Hokkaido, and established a company with volunteers in the town to import reindeer.

The purpose was to use them as livestock, and to raise them for the production and sale of meat, antlers, and leather. That was in 1989, and 173 reindeer came to the town in the same year…

After the following year, the number of reindeer continued to increase steadily, and because of their rarity, the reindeer were covered by the press, and there was no end to the number of visitors who heard the news and rumors and came to visit the area for sightseeing.

The reindeer were bred as livestock at that time, and the purpose was not to promote the tourism industry in the town. In 1995, Horonobe town purchased 50 reindeer to meet the expectations of tourists. The location was not at the current site, but an area adjacent to the city center along the JR Soya Line, but due to the increase in the number of visitors the had to look for a larger area. On Christmas Day, December 25, 1999, it was reopened in a Scandinavian-style location about 4 km away from the city center and became the Horonobe Reindeer Tourist Farm.
You can also find a rare variety of blue poppies that are extremely difficult to cultivate here, and also other flowers that grow only in cold areas like Wakkanai.