TOMARIORU Old Tomari

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Tomarioru in 1930.

Tomari was also the 'Sakhalinic' town developed by the paper mill, the railroad, and river, forest and coalmine. To tell the truth, though the Karafuto-Cho had planned the Tomarioru would become the coalmine town at the beginning of the Japanese period, it was seriously failed, and people in Tomari were almost abandoned until the earlier 1910s. In 1914, however, the paper mill company, Karafuto Kogyo Corporation built their factory in 1916. Soon after that the World War I developed Tomari dramatically because of Japanese economical prosperity. In 1920, the paper mill was all burnt by fire, but quickly rebuilt. The Railroad between Maoka and Tomarioru opened in November 1930. In 1926, Tomari had 1,820 households and 8,401 people.

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