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  • Even though it's autumn...sunflowers bloomed in Hokuryu [Hokkaido Shimbun].
    • October 19, 2023

    Even though it's autumn...sunflowers bloomed in Hokuryu [Hokkaido Shimbun].

  • 🌻 Sunflower Chorus is on summer vacation 🌻 We wish you the best of luck in this hot summer. The main field at Sunflower Village is currently in full bloom ♪♪♪ [Hokuryu Town Sunflower Chorus]
    • August 4, 2023

    🌻 🌻 Sunflower Chorus is on summer break 🌻 🌻 We hope you are enjoying the hot weather. The main field of the Sunflower Village is now in full bloom 🌻🌻🌻 [Hokuryu-cho Sunflower Chorus

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Table of Contents
  • 1 Hokuryu Town logo "Bright Farming Methods" and the yellow mailbox of happiness
  • 2 Yasuhiro Sasaki, Mayor
  • 3 Outline of Hokuryu Town
  • 4 Hokuryu Town Web Site
  • 5 Town bus timetable
  • 6 Hokuryu Town Introduction Page
  • 7 Hokuryu Town Hometown Tax Payment

Logo "Bright Farming" in the town of Hokuryu
Yellow mailbox of happiness

bright agricultural practices
Yellow mailbox of happiness

Yasuhiro Sasaki, Mayor

 Yasuhiro Sasaki Mayor's Activity Report

Dear all! I would like to talk to you.
We will use their voices in city planning!

Please feel free to stop by the Mayor's office.
August and September Activity Schedule

We tour and speak in Hokuryu Town every month.
Mayor Yasuhiro Sasaki explores the charms of the town

Outline of Hokuryu Town

Hokuryu Town, Map
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Area: 159 km² ❂ Area
❂ Population: 1,573 people[Month-over-month: ± 0 ]
❂ Households:778 households[Month-over-month: - 1 ]
(August 1, 2025)
❂ Aging rate :46.0 % (0.5)(All roads, No. 19)
❂ Late aging rate :29.6% (%)(All the way No. 7)
(179 cities, towns, and villages in all provinces)As of January 1, 2024)

Hokuryu Town Web Site


Hokuryu Town Web Site

Town bus timetable


R7.4~ Town bus timetable

Hokuryu Town Introduction Page


Hokuryu Town Introduction Page

Hokuryu Town Hometown Tax Payment

❂ quaint little Kyoto-style home cooking with boiled vegetables and marinated food, also now served in restaurants
quaint little Kyoto-style home cooking with boiled vegetables and marinated food, also now served in restaurants
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Hometown Choice

❂ Rakuten Market
Rakuten Market

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Sites of organizations and individuals in town

❂ Hokuryu Town Treasures Facebook page

❂ Yasuhiro Sasaki, Mayor of the town Instagram
❂ Hokuryu Town Web Site What's New
❂ Hokuryu Fire Fighting
❂ Hokuryu Junior High School
❂ Shinryu Elementary School
❂ Special Nursing Home for the Elderly, Eirakuen
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❂ JA Kitasorachi Hokuryu Branch Office
❂ JA-Kita Sorauchi
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❂ Hokuryu-cho Sunflower Tourist Association
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❂ Hokuryu Town Chamber of Commerce and Industry
❂ Kuro Sengoku Business Cooperative Net Shop
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❂ Sunflower Park Hokuryu Onsen
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❂ Minorichi Hokuryu Instagram
❂ Group Home Hekisui Facebook page
❂ (Hokko Construction Co.
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❂ Fujioka Tsumeshin Co.
❂ Agricultural Cooperative Honoka Instagram

❂ Takada Corporation Instagram
❂ Toyoryu Farm Instagram
❂ NPO Akarui Nouhou Instagram
❂ Jodo Shinshu Hongwanji School Ryusenji Temple

❂ Hokuryu-cho Sunflower Chorus Facebook page
❂ Hokuryu Kendama Club Instagram
❂ Self-supporting forestry, under nature (Tatsuya Uei)
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❂ Ei no Mori Activity Organization (Representative: Osamu Kato)
❂ hanamarche2022 Instagram
❂ tumugi1114 Instagram
 
❂ Hokuryu Sunflower Osteopathic Clinic
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❂ Restaurant Mukohi
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❂ Kitchen Harebare
❂ tokadin715 and Mr. and Mrs. Takeshita
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❂ Youtube Channel: Hiroyuki Takimoto
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❂ Mr. Tsukasa Takebayashi, a somewhat of a farmer in Hokuryu Town
❂ Hokuryu Board Game Club (Claystone projects)

❂ Mizuho Farmers Facebook page
❂ Wara-zaiku Nakura Instagram
❂ Hokuryu Marche Instagram
❂ Agri-Fighter North Dragon Facebook page
❂ Former Mayor Yutaka Sano of Hokuryu Town Activity report
❂ Open the door (Keiko Ozaki)
❂ Tour of Hokkaido and Roadside Stations
❂ Young Dementia Family Association, Sorachi Himawari

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    • February 26, 2024

    The top of the wish list: "It's like being in a dream" by Mr. Okimoto of Fukagawa, "Kita no Manga Grand Prix" [Hokkaido Shimbun Digital].

    • February 20, 2024

    Acrylic painting of a sunflower field in Hokuryu-cho, Hokkaido] "Mama, I can't stand up," an elementary school student who lost the freedom of her legs and hands dreamed in her bed.

    • February 8, 2024

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    • January 22, 2024

    Support for the 37th Hokuryu-cho Himawari Festival [NIDS Digital Photo Gallery] [Defense Daily News] (In Japanese Only)

    • January 19, 2024

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    • November 27, 2023

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    • November 13, 2023

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    • October 19, 2023

    Even though it's autumn...sunflowers bloomed in Hokuryu [Hokkaido Shimbun].

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