🐎 Power and Fortune Run & Walk! “Horse” GPS Art Route Around Tokachi Banba Shrine 🗻
Located beside the Obihiro Racecourse — home to the world’s only Ban’ei horse racing — Tokachi Banba Shrine honors the mighty draft horses that embody strength and perseverance. Visitors come here to pray for victory and strong legs.
Ban’ei racing, a tradition born in Tokachi, features powerful draft horses pulling iron sleds over sand slopes — a dramatic showcase of endurance unique to Hokkaido.
This 9km route loops past Obihiro Racecourse, Midorigaoka Park, and Obihiro Centennial Museum, letting you draw a horse shape beneath the vast Tokachi sky — a perfect way to start your year.
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A PIONEER IN GPS ART.
1st work was authorized by Guinness World Records as “the Largest GPS Drawing”.
He is the only Japanese person to be featured in a Google documentary as an innovator. He is fascinated by the idea of drawing with GPS and has published more than 2,500 works.
