Echigo Swamp

A wide swamp

Original Text

This is near the Ebetsu Higashi IC and next to the Ebetsuta Rural Park. Walk about 100m from the road. It is a wide swamp, and the Echigo-numa Marsh area was formed as a back wetland of the Ishikari River. You can see the Hokkaido Expressway across the swamp.

The appearance of Ishikari wetland

Original Text

It is a swamp in the Ebetsubuto Rural Park on the outskirts of Ebetsu City, which is adjacent to the northeast of Sapporo City. The name of the swamp comes from the fact that the surrounding area was once called Echigo Village. It is said that it is a valuable existence that retains the remnants of Ishikari Marsh, which was the largest in Japan, but the current area is about 1 ㎢, and bamboo grass and other trees are growing in groups and the scale of the marsh is being reduced. It is said that members of the conservation committee are focusing on survival. However, it is declining as a habitat for wetland plants and wild birds ...

I feel the remnants of the Tondenhei era.

Original Text

It is said that this area is called Echigo Village, which is very close to the Ebetsu Higashi Interchange on the highway, but is the origin probably a trace of settlers from Niigata? There was a waterfowl in the empty swamp.