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    • Sunflower Village - Photo
  • special product
    • Sales of Hokuryu rice produced in 2024 will be suspended [JA Kitasorachi]
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    • sunflower (Helianthus annuus)
    • Kurokeshi Soybeans
    • Kuro Sengoku related articles
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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
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  • Congratulations on passing the Advanced Level 2 exam! Everyone is working hard! [Hokuryu Kendama Club]

Congratulations on passing the Advanced Level 2 exam! Everyone is working hard! [Hokuryu Kendama Club]

  • November 25, 2025
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    • November 9, 2021

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  • Synchronized with @asahidama_official @yamatomikoto0530 ✨ We get together when playing kendama outside. It's great. It was cold though lol [Hokuryu Kendama Club]
    • January 11, 2024

    Synchronized with @asahidama_official @yamatomikoto0530 ✨ If you're outside playing kendama, we'll get together. It was cold but it was great. It was cold but lol [Hokuryu Kendama Club].

  • Tomorrow (11/7), an exhibition of original drawings by many Yoshinaga Kohzu will open in the second training room of the Hokuryu Community Center [Hokuryu Kendama Club].
    • November 8, 2021

    Tomorrow (11/7), an exhibition of original drawings by many Yoshinaga Kohzu will open in the second training room of the Hokuryu Community Center [Hokuryu Kendama Club].

  • This is a video from the Wanpaku Festival that was held in Fukagawa the other day! Many parents and children got to try out Kendama ☺️ [Hokuryu Kendama Club]
    • October 5, 2023

    Here is a video from the recent Wanpaku Festival in Fukagawa! Many parents and children experienced Kendama. ☺️[Hokuryu Kendama Club]

  • # Kendama Countdown 2022 will be held on the 1st day, "Tsurushimotoken" [Hokuryu Kendama Club].
    • December 27, 2022

    # Kendama Countdown 2022 will be held on the 1st day, "Tsurushimotoken" [Hokuryu Kendama Club].

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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.
November activity schedule December 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: 1,562 people[Month-over-month: – 6 ]
❂ Households:770 households[Month-over-month: – 4 ]
(November 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

❂ ANA
ANA

❂ season
Saison Hometown Tax Payment

❂ call home
call home

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  • Kazuyo Tanaka on Mr. Ryoji Kikura's first cultivation, the sacred spirit plant "Mako-dake", which is divine and purifies evil spirits, grows beautifully!
  • cookie on 🌻July 15 (Fri.), we will have a joint beer garden 🍻 for the Youth and Women's Clubs of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry! Our restaurant will also open a booth 😊【Mukohi hollyhock restaurant
  • Kimu on Yutaka Sano, Mayor of Hokuryu Town Activity report: Mayor's assessment of the FY2022 initial budget and attendance at the wake of the late Masaaki Asano, Mitani neighborhood association member on Wednesday, February 2
  • iro on Etai-betsu Dam covered with snow
  • noboru & ikuko on Etai-betsu Dam covered with snow
  • iro on Etai-betsu Dam covered with snow
  • noboru & ikuko on The first sunflower watermelon is here. I think we are producing sweet and tasty watermelons this year as well [Minorikchi Hokuryu].
  • landowner kozo on The first sunflower watermelon is here. I think we are producing sweet and tasty watermelons this year as well [Minorikchi Hokuryu].
  • noboru & ikuko on Seven companies of the Hokuryu Town Construction Industry Association support restaurants in town by ordering lunch boxes!
  • Yasuhiro Sasaki on Seven companies of the Hokuryu Town Construction Industry Association support restaurants in town by ordering lunch boxes!

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
❂ Around the sunflowers
❂ Hokuryu Town l Regional revitalizer
❂ 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
symbol used as a placeholder (either because a number of other words could be used in that position or because of censorship) Kuro Sengoku Business Cooperative Instagram
❂ 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
symbol used as a placeholder (either because a number of other words could be used in that position or because of censorship) Restaurant Mukohiabi Instagram
❂ 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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Hokuryu Kendama Club8 most recent articles

    • November 25, 2025

    Congratulations on passing the Advanced Level 2 exam! Everyone is working hard! [Hokuryu Kendama Club]

    • November 13, 2025

    Synchronized swimming around the world 🌏 Both of them look relaxed 😁 [Hokuryu Kendama Club]

    • November 12, 2025

    # Mongolian Candle: I was saying "Hmph!" while playing, so I ended up saying "Osoma!" 🤣 [Hokuryu Kendama Club]

    • November 11, 2025

    We all did the spinning kendama! We originally planned to do it with nine people, but we filmed it in groups of three. 📷💦 [Hokuryu Kendama Club]

    • November 11, 2025

    Summary of the Town Cultural Festival Performances ③ We had some extra time, so we told the students they could try out other tricks besides the ones we had planned, and they all went wild! [Hokuryu Kendama Club]

    • November 6, 2025

    A first for a club? A synchronized dance around the USA ✨ They're getting better and better. It's amazing. Fun is the best way to improve [Hokuryu Kendama Club]

    • November 4, 2025

    The representative made his first 2-tap jug Kendama 🔥 Did you do it...? [Hokuryu Kendama Club]

    • November 4, 2025

    Passed the Basic Level 1 exam 🎉 I'm so happy when they say they did it! Everyone's been working hard on the exam lately 🔥 I can really see how hard this year's students are working 🌻 [Hokuryu Kendama Club]

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  • Taste the Seasons in Hokuryu Town
  • residents of Hokuryu Town
  • Hokuryu Town Related Information
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