Depicts Lake Tōya and the Former Hokkaido Government office building. State name above, value below.

Lake Tōya is a volcanic caldera lake in Shikotsu-Toya National Park, Abuta District, Hokkaidō, Japan. It is part of "Toya Caldera and Usu Volcano Global Geopark" which joins in Global Geoparks Network. The stratovolcano of Mount Usu lies on the southern rim of the caldera. The lake is nearly circular, being 10 kilometers in diameter from east-west and 9 kilometers from North-South. The town of Tōyako comprises most of the area surrounding the lake and the town of Sōbetsu is located on the eastern side.

Former Hokkaido Government office building (Red Brick Office) is Hokkaido’s best-known symbol. Constructed in 1888, the building is an example of American neo-baroque architecture. Architectural details such as the warped glass created in the Meiji Period and the heat-retaining double doors stored in an ornamental frame exude functional beauty. The building and its exhibits on Hokkaido history are open to the public.

The inner section shows an image of an old Japanese coin (old cast Mon coin) where Kanji letters mean “Local Autonomy”. Latent image technology is applied to the centre of the coin to make letters of “47″ representing the number of prefectures in Japan, and “60″ representing the 60th Anniversary of Enforcement of the Local Autonomy Law appear alternately when viewed from different angles.

The outer ring of the coin depicts the inscription in English above, value in English and the year of issue in Kanji below.

Kanji are the adopted logographic Chinese characters that are used in the modern Japanese writing system along with hiragana and katakana. The date begins with the symbols for the era name Heisei (平成), followed by the era year, and ends with the symbol for year (年).