Kuro Sengoku de Summer Festival 2024 was held for the first time! Many guests enjoyed the festival! We were thrilled by the miraculous encounter!

Sunday, August 4, 2024

The "Kuro Sengoku de Summer Festival" was held on Saturday, August 3, from 10:00 a.m. at the premises of the Kuro Sengoku Business Cooperative Association (Hekisui, Hokuryu-cho). The event was organized by Executive Director Yuji Takada.

Kuro Sengoku de Summer Festival 2024

Organized by the Kuro Sengoku Business Cooperative Association (President Yukio Takada), the first-ever summer festival was a great success, attracting many people!

The summer festival is a great success for both children and adults with many events!

Summer festival site
Summer festival site
Kuro Sengoku de Summer Festival 2024
Kuro Sengoku de Summer Festival 2024

Various seasonal vegetables for sale

  • Scooping of Kuro Sengoku Dong", "All-you-can-stuff cucumbers", "All-you-can-stuff mini-tomatoes", and various seasonal vegetables for sale.
Lots of freshly picked vegetables
Lots of freshly picked vegetables
100 yen for all-you-can-stuff cucumbers
100 yen for all-you-can-stuff cucumbers

children's fair

  • Selling candy, yo-yo scooping at the whale pool, Sumikko Gurashi raffle
Children's Fair Various Candy
Children's Fair Various Candy
Whale yo-yo
Whale yo-yo

Umeya.

  • Umeya "Kuro Sengoku soybean flour soft serve ice cream," "Kuro Sengoku cream puffs," "Baked sweets (an-butter madeleines, butter sponge cakes, Hollanda yaki)
  • The Kuro Sengoku Kinako (soybean flour) soft serve ice cream is filled with Kuro Sengoku kinako (soybean flour) both on the bottom and in the toppings, and is smooth and superbly delicious, just like Jarato!
Umeya (Kuro Sengoku soybean flour soft serve ice cream, Kuro Sengoku cream puffs)
Umeya (Kuro Sengoku soybean flour soft serve ice cream, Kuro Sengoku cream puffs)
People lining up in a row
People lining up in a row
An butter madeleine, butter sponge cake
An butter madeleine, butter sponge cake

Established in 1914. Umeya of cream puffs" is a confectionery shop in Asahikawa, Hokkaido. Japanese sweets produced with advanced craftsmanship that has been passed down from generation to generation....

Masao Togashi Shoten, Yabu Yabu Bushi

  • Katsuobushi producer, Togashi Masao Shoten (Sapporo, established in 1948 and currently succeeded by the third generation, Yuhei Togashi).
  • Yabu Yabu Bushi is a three-ingredient mixture of shavings made from a golden ratio of "shabu shavings from Shibetsu-cho, Hokkaido," "katsuobushi from Ibusuki City, Kagoshima," and "maguro shavings from Ibusuki City, Kagoshima!
  • The combination of inosinic acid, a flavor component of bonito and tuna, and glutamic acid contained in shaké (salmon) multiplies the umami by 10!
  • No additives, "all-natural food" containing natural flavor!
  • Yabu Yabu Bushi" shavings from Togashi Masao Shoten won the Osaka Governor's Award at the 67th National Seafood Processing and Tabemono Exhibition!
 (Yuhei Togashi, the third generation representative director of Masao Togashi Shoten, and his staff.
(Yuhei Togashi, the third generation representative director of Masao Togashi Shoten, and his staff.
female prostitute working at a bathhouse (Edo period)
female prostitute working at a bathhouse (Edo period)
Very popular Yabu Yabu bushi
Very popular Yabu Yabu bushi
Masao Togashi Shoten Ltd.

The most delicious dried bonito shavings shop in Hokkaido, winner of the Osaka Governor's Award at the 67th National Seafood Processing and Food Exhibition in 2024. The company steams the dried bonito shavings and other shavings it produces...

Teppanyaki, Koki Chef's Live Kitchen

  • Chef Koki grills teppan dishes "Spiced Chicken" & "Yakisoba" right in front of you, and they are outstandingly delicious!
  • The yakisoba noodles filled with vegetables and a huge zucchini, a fresh vegetable home-grown by Chancellor Takada! The best!
  • The seasoning of Yabu Yabu Bushi is a collaboration of the finest yakisoba!
Koki Chef's Live Kitchen
Koki Chef's Live Kitchen
Spicy chicken is also great!
Spicy chicken is also great!

Sauna car "You have a sauna."

  • Free trial of the sauna car "Sauna Arujan"!
You have a sauna.
You have a sauna.
  • Sauna made by carpenters using Japanese cedar, which is light in specific gravity: Produced by Hokuyuu Construction Co.
  • Adopted "Shinbo Seisakusho's Sauna Stove," which has been making wood-burning stoves in Otaru for over 60 years.
  • Sauna stone is a heat-resistant and durable peridotite/hyaline rock mix sauna stone, "Onimaru" onigawara design made by Kikuma Tile, with an absorption rate of more than 10%, which has the advantage of preventing drying, warming suffocation, and retaining aroma for a long time.
  • Stove fan stirs up heat waves in the sauna room after self-launched lu
Red-hot staff members
Red-hot staff members
interior design
interior design
Sauna Arujan, Hokuyuu Construction Co.
Sauna Car Manufacturing from Hokkaido
I want to build a sauna car. I want to build a sauna hut. I want to love sauna. We can make a sauna car for a light truck because we are craftsmen. We also rent them for home use.
Click here for the website of Sauna Arujan >>
You have a sauna.

enjoy time

 From left: Yukio Takada, President of Kurozengoku Business Cooperative Association; Yutaka Sano, former Mayor of the town; Ryoji Kikura, Honorary Town Citizen of Hokuryu Town (former President of JA Kitasorachi); Kazuo Kimura, Member of the Hokuryu Town Assembly
From left: Yukio Takada, President of Kurozengoku Business Cooperative Association; Yutaka Sano, former Mayor of the town; Ryoji Kikura, Honorary Town Citizen of Hokuryu Town (former President of JA Kitasorachi); Kazuo Kimura, Member of the Hokuryu Town Assembly
Fun chatting time
Fun chatting time

Miraculous Encounter

When we (the administrators) moved to Hokuryu Town from the Kanto region in 2010 (Heisei 22), 14 years ago, we received a touching letter from a girl who loved sunflowers and Hokuryu Town, who was then a junior high school student and the chairperson of the Hokuryu Junior High School Sunflower Committee.

Receive a kind letter

It was accompanied by kind words and a portrait of our smiling faces.

A beautiful letter from a junior high school girl (October 2010)
A beautiful letter from a junior high school girl (October 2010)

The kind words you wrote in your letter are,

Their smiles are as bright as sunflowers. If you keep smiling at all times, something good will surely happen. I believe it. I love sunflowers and Hokuryu Town.

Miraculous encounter in the 14th year

On the day of the event, I met the girl at this venue, and to my surprise, I had a very strange and miraculous encounter with her!

The mother who was with us suddenly asked us, "Do you remember the name Aoi Okazaki?" She suddenly asked us, "Do you remember the name Aoi Okazaki?

Wow! Aoi," I responded, to a very nice lady!

My heart is filled with nostalgia and emotion!

A mother with the biggest smile and a little girl as cute as a sunflower, snapping a commemorative photo!

The most beautiful smile of the Okazaki family
The most beautiful smile of the Okazaki family

I am truly grateful for this wonderful encounter. Thank you very much!

With unlimited love, gratitude, and prayers, we wish you a great "Kuro Sengoku de Summer Festival" where Kuro Sengoku Soybeans serve as a bridge to connect delicious encounters, wonderful people, and share joy and fun.

With endless love, gratitude and prayers for the lovely smiling sunflowers.
With endless love, gratitude and prayers for the lovely smiling sunflowers.

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