As a coal mining town flourished from the early Meiji period, produced a lot of coal.
However, later half of Showa 30's energy revolution faced with competition progress with the coal, spate accidents, national coal policy retreat.
Demand will increase due to the steel recession later and closed the oyubari District Office (0/1973) in 1973. The decline of the coal industry go bankrupt after successive subsequent closure, in 1981 (0/1981) in addition to one of the city was a line-of-business office Hokkaido Colliery steamer (Northern coal) evening in Zhang's new mining North coal Yubari coal gas projecting accidents occurred, Yubari coal operated North coal Yubari Colliery Co., Ltd., took Spurs.
Domestic resources promoting a wide range of Government the justification to overcome the oil crisis-not and decides the avalanche to a low-cost, high-quality overseas resources then phenomenon, government streamlining policy prior to each management is Geri and continue, one after another pulled out of domestic coal companies.
Also boasted a domestic scale and carbonaceous Yubari Mitsubishi coal mining-southern oyubari Colliery closed.
Yubari is a city originally opened on mountain coal mine development, and less flat terrain on the area is not suitable for large-scale agriculture was no industrial base of non-coal industry employment basis not because it was as good as youth workers leaked out to the city and its inhabitants,. Remaining seniors in the city next to the birthrate and aging rapidly.
Yubari-Shi from the golden age of population decline.
Melon cultivation is currently utilizing the temperature difference of temperatures (Yubari melon), flower farms, Yubari is pursuing activities as a town of tourism, such as the International Fantastic Film Festival is in a difficult situation.