1. Chitose RiverChitose River is a river in Hokkaidō, Japan. The river is a class A river. In the city of Ebetsu, the river is sometimes known as Ebetsu River . In the Ainu language Chitose was originally called shikotsu, meaning big depression or hollow, like Lake Shikotsu a caldera lake. To the Japanese, this sounded too much like dead bones, so it was changed to Chitose. The name of the river was changed in 1805.
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