- May 30, 2025
This year, the Hokuryu Kendama Festival will be held on Saturday, August 2nd 🌻 [Hokuryu Kendama Club]
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2025 Sunflower Bloom Status, News, etc.
- May 22, 2025
[Limited to July 28th - August 8th] Himawari Early Bird 30,000 yen off!! Pre-wedding photo shoots and photo weddings [Decollete Photography]
On Thursday, May 22, 2025, Decorte Holdings Co., Ltd. (headquartered in Kobe), a nationwide company specializing in photo weddings and pre-wedding photoshoots, posted an article on their website about a photo wedding at Himawari no Sato in Hokuryu Town.
- May 19, 2025
The 39th Sunflower Festival is finally underway! ✨ We'll be bringing you real-time updates on the sunflowers from sowing to flowering and right up to the festival itself, so stay tuned! [Hokuryu Town Sunflower Tourism Association, Yuto Sakai]
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- May 19, 2025
[2025] The 39th Hokuryu Town Sunflower Festival [Ikoyo Trip]
On Monday, May 19, 2025, an article about the 39th Hokuryu Town Sunflower Festival was published on Ikoyo Trip, an internet site run by Act Indy Co., Ltd. (Tokyo). The website provides information on outings with children. […]
- May 2, 2025
Hokuryu Town Office implements residents' idea! "Planting cherry tree seedlings" in Nonno Forest
On Friday, May 2, 2025 and Wednesday, April 30, 2025, at Nonno Forest in Hokuryu Town, Kazuo Shibasaki, a forestry instructor belonging to the Sorachi District Forestry Instructor Liaison Council, Susumu Yotsutsuji, a Hokuryu town resident, Junichi Iguchi, head of the Industry Division at Hokuryu Town Hall, and Yoshihiro Ichiba, section chief, attended a special event.
- April 30, 2025
Parking at Hokuryu's Sunflower Festival is 500 yen, but free for town residents [Hokkaido Shimbun Digital]
On Wednesday, April 30, 2025, the Hokkaido Shimbun Press (Sapporo City) published an article titled "Hokuryu Sunflower Festival: Parking Fee 500 Yen, Free for Local Residents" (dated April 28th) on its website, Hokkaido Shimbun Digital. [...]
- March 19, 2025
A tourism association director speaks about the history of sunflower cultivation at Hokuryu Junior High School [Hokkaido Shimbun Digital]
On Wednesday, March 19, 2025, the Hokkaido Shimbun Press (Sapporo) published an article titled "History of Sunflower Cultivation: Tourism Association Director Gives Lecture at Hokuryu Junior High School" on the Hokkaido Shimbun Digital website.
- March 19, 2025
Mr. Yotsuji, the key figure behind Hokuryu becoming the "village of sunflowers," gives a lecture at Hokuryu Junior High School. "I hope the tradition of 'Sunflowers of the World' will be passed on." [Kita Sorachi Shimbun]
On Wednesday, March 19, 2025, the Kita Sorachi Shimbun, an internet site run by the Kita Sorachi Shimbun Company (Fukagawa City), published an article titled "Mr. Yotsutsuji, the key figure behind Hokuryu becoming a 'Sunflower Village,' gives a lecture at Hokuryu Junior High School. 'Sunflowers of the World' [...]"
- March 5, 2025
Hokuryu Himawari no Sato to charge parking fees to non-residents during festival [Hokkaido Shimbun Digital]
On Wednesday, March 5, 2025, the Hokkaido Shimbun Press (Sapporo City) published an article titled "Parking fees to be collected at Hokuryu Sunflower Village during the festival for non-residents [Hokkaido Shimbun Digital]" on its website, Hokkaido Shimbun Digital. (March [...]
- January 17, 2025
The first AI video generation: Sunflower Village PR video "The Miracle of Sunflowers and Dragons"
Friday, January 17, 2025 Recently, there has been information that generative AI is rapidly evolving. So, using a series of apps that create images, music, and videos from words, we created a promotional video for Sunflower called "The Miracle of Sunflowers and Dragons."