3 Current situation and issues in Niseko Town 3-8

As of January 1, 2000, the land use status of Niseko Town is as follows: 7.01 km2 of rice fields, 23.50 km2 of fields, 2.07 km2 of residential land, 40.08 km2 of wilderness, 101.95 km2 of forest, 0.92 km of ranch It has a total area of 197.13 km2, with a total area of 19,000 km2, 3.59 km2 in hybrid land, 18.01 km2 in Ikenuma and others.
More than half of the total area is forested, about half of which is occupied by paved forests, and it is designated as National / National Park and various security forests. Cultivated areas such as fields are decreasing year by year, abandoned cultivation abandoned by farming is conspicuous, and conversely, residential land has continued to increase slightly.