[October 2024] Hokuryu Town Portal Operation Report

• Hokuryu Town Portal Full Information:"Website Hokuryu Town Portal" + "Facebook page: Hokuryu Town Treasures" + "Instagram: Hokuryu Town Treasures" + "Youtube Hokuryu Town Portal」
• Access analysis:Google Analytics 4 (GA4) has been in use since June
• Operator:Hokuryu Town Community Supporter, Terauchi Ikuko; Hokuryu Town Portal Volunteer Management Support (filming, editing, and updating): Terauchi Noboru

◉ October: Number of visitors: 16,143 people (average 520 people/31 days)
◉ October: Number of articles: 272 (average 12 articles/22 working days)

October: Hokuryu Town Portal - Access from around the world

◉ Japan: 10,375 people (93% of the total)
◉ Overseas: 724 people (7% of the total)
(148 from Singapore, 117 from Indonesia, 83 from the United States, 54 from France, 52 from Taiwan, 43 from Hong Kong, etc. Total of 63 countries / 196 UN member states)

Website ・Hokuryu Town Portal

October Feature Articles: 15

1. Hokuryu Sunflower Rice New Rice Thanksgiving Festival 2024 (October 1st)
2. Fifth graders from Shinryu Elementary School "Rice Farming Experience" - Observing rice threshing, hulling and color sorting machines (October 7th)
3. Enjoying the red-fleshed melons from Yasunori Watanabe Farm on a long autumn night (October 9th) 
4. Hokuryu Town Volunteer Group "Smile Association" Exchange Meeting 2024 Held! Terauchi introduces this year's Hokuryu Town in a video! (October 9th)
5. Orange Cafe (Dementia Cafe) held! Enjoy lively and fun conversations and draw on mini pumpkins! (October 10th)
6. 53rd Hokuryu Town Sunflower Olympics 2024 (October 15th)
7. Soba Shokuraku Club Hokuryu "New Soba Enjoyment Party 2024" A blissful moment tasting delicious "New Soba" from Hokuryu Town (October 16th)
8. Tasting grapes grown on the Fujisaki family's home orchard (October 17th)
9. Tasting Grapes from the Nakajima Family Natural Garden! (October 17th)
10. I was impressed by the garden tree "Kokuwa (Monkey Pear)" in the Nakajima Family Natural Garden! (October 18th)
11. The brilliance of youth is resurrected! With gratitude for the precious memories of youth, "On the Hill Where Sunflowers Bloom"! (October 21st)
12. Projection Mapping Night 2024: Mysterious Space Expands (October 21st)
13. Wa Neighborhood Association Senior Citizens Club Training and Exchange Meeting 2024 (October 28th)
14. A blissful moment with cornmeal cake, cookies, and corn tea! (October 29th)
15. [Video] Savor the Seasons in Hokuryu Town 2024: A variety of delicious dishes made with ingredients from Hokuryu Town (October 31st)

Treasures of Hokuryu Town:

🌻 Photo posting (uploaded to Google Photos: 37 photos)

Multilingual system (four languages) currently under construction and in operation

❂ June 30, 2024: English and Traditional Chinese, August 1, 2024: Indonesian, (November 3, 2024: Vietnamese)