Obihiro Shimin Bunka Hall

Obihiro has a unique type of draught horse racing called Banei (ばんえい) . The horses drag steel 'sleighs', each weighing around 500 kilograms, along a 200-m sand track with two humps in the middle of the course. The sport originated in a test of strength for farm animals. Most of the horses are a crossbreed of French Percherons and Bretons and Belgian horses. The 'jockeys' lash the horses repeatedly with the reins - animal lovers be warned!.

Large park. With in the park, there are a variety of facilities zoo, and museums.

Said to be Japan's first conifer garden, many of the plants were imported from Europe and Canada. The garden is among the largest in Japan, featuring a Japanese garden, a Western garden, and a landscape garden.

A garden that was started in 1986 by the local woman, Akiyo Shichiku, as a way to deal with the death of her husband. She kept adding to the garden over the years and today has over 2500 different flower varieties. Akiyo used to walk around the garden among the visitors until she passed away in 2021 at age 94.