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    • Hokuryu-cho Sunflower Chorus
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    • Hokuryu Board Game Club
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    • straw craft
    • Hokuryu Marche
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    • Hokuryu Sunflower Osteopathic Clinic
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    • Sunflower Village - Photo
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    • Sales of Hokuryu rice produced in 2024 will be suspended [JA Kitasorachi]
    • sunflower rice
    • sunflower melon
    • sunflower (Helianthus annuus)
    • Kurokeshi Soybeans
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    • sunflower oil
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    • Hometown Support Message
  • Jobs in Hokuryu Town
    • new farmer starting a new business
  • Onsen, inns, taverns
    • Hokuryu Hot Spring
    • town-managed ski resort
    • Roadside Station Sunflower Hokuryu
    • Restaurant Windmill
    • store
    • Sunflower Park Hotel
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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 New local public transportation service launched (R7 10.1.)
  • 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


The mayor talks about Hokuryu's vision for the future

 Yasuhiro Sasaki Mayor's Activity Report

To everyone! I want to talk to you.
We will use their voices in city planning!

Please feel free to stop by the Mayor's office.
October activity schedule November 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: 1,568 people[Month-over-month: – 8 ]
❂ Households:774 households[Month-over-month: – 6 ]
(October 1, 2025)
❂ Aging rate :46.2%(20th route in the entire prefecture)
❂ Late aging rate :29.6% (%)(13th in the entire prefecture)
(179 cities, towns, and villages in all provinces)As of January 1, 2025)

Hokuryu Town Web Site


Hokuryu Town Web Site

New local public transportation service launched (R7 10.1.)


On-demand & scheduled routes

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
❂ Hometown Choice
Hometown Choice

❂ Rakuten Market
Rakuten Market

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ANA

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Saison Hometown Tax Payment

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  • A miracle of harmony woven together for the first time in 50 years. Connected by a female choir...

    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - On Saturday, October 4, 2025, at Hokuryu Town Community Center, a miraculous reunion of university classmates took place...

  • Kendama brings smiles to people of all ages, and the Hokuryu Kendama Club...

    On Wednesday, October 8, 2025 and Tuesday, September 30, the Hokuryu Kendama Club held its 4th anniversary tournament. The venue was packed with children...

  • Hiroyuki Maeda receives the Order of the Rising Sun in recognition of his contributions to the development of the region...

    On Thursday, October 14, 2025, Mr. Hiroyuki Maeda of Hokuryu Town was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Silver Rays. He is a town council member and the founder of Himawari Kanko.

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    On Wednesday, October 16, 2025 and Tuesday, October 7, the Hokuryu Town Himawari Longevity Association held a training trip. 62 members...

  • Wednesday, October 1st: Demonstration operation of new local public transportation in Hokuryu Town...

    Published on Wednesday, October 1, 2025, updated on Monday, October 6. Hokuryu Town's new local public transportation system will be operational from Wednesday, October 1, 2025.

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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
symbol used as a placeholder (either because a number of other words could be used in that position or because of censorship) Eirakuen Instagram
❂ JA Kitasorachi Hokuryu Branch Office
❂ JA-Kita Sorauchi
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symbol used as a placeholder (either because a number of other words could be used in that position or because of censorship) JA Kitasorachi Instagram
❂ 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
symbol used as a placeholder (either because a number of other words could be used in that position or because of censorship) Sunflower Park Hokuryu Hot Springs Instagram
❂ Minorichi Hokuryu Instagram
❂ Group Home Hekisui Facebook page
❂ (Hokko Construction Co.
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❂ (Hokuso Co.
❂ 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)
symbol used as a placeholder (either because a number of other words could be used in that position or because of censorship) Self-supporting forestry and under natureInstagram
❂ Ei no Mori Activity Organization (Representative: Osamu Kato)
❂ hanamarche2022 Instagram
❂ tumugi1114 Instagram
 
❂ Hokuryu Sunflower Osteopathic Clinic
symbol used as a placeholder (either because a number of other words could be used in that position or because of censorship) Hokuryu Himawari Osteopathic Clinic Facebook page
❂ Restaurant Mukohi
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❂ Kitchen Harebare
❂ tokadin715 and Mr. and Mrs. Takeshita
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❂ Sunflower Town Craft Marche (Creema)
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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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