The town is on Nemuro Sen railway line and can be reached by train from Kushiro and Nemuro several times a day.
Habomai village was dissolved in 1959 and merged into Nemuro, including the Habomai islands.
Kiritappu Wetland is on the northeast side of Japan, on the east side of Hokkaidō, facing the Pacific Ocean between Kushiro and Nemuro.
The airport serves Nakashibetsu and the nearby city of Nemuro.
He later developed trading routes to the Kuril Islands and operated many fisheries around Nemuro, a town on Hokkaidō's east coast.