Uryū, Hokkaido
Uryū is a town located in Sorachi Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.
As of September 2016, the town has an estimated population of 2,546, and a density of 13.3 persons per km². The total area is.Etymology
The name of the town is from the Ainu language, but the origin of name has been lost. Urir-o-pet, one possibility, means "cormorant river".
In Japanese, the name of the town is written with ateji, or kanji characters used to phonetically represent native or borrowed words. The first,, means "rain", and the second,, means "dragon".
