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Year 2024

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September 11, 2024

2024 Shinryu Shrine Autumn Grand Festival and Goshin Kouri @ Wa Community Center (Wa Neighborhood Association) Thank you for the great harmony and peace!

September 11, 2024 (Wed) For three days from September 8 (Sun.) to 10 (Tue.), the Hokuryu-cho "Autumn Grand Festival of the Shinryu Shrine in 2024" was held. The Autumn Grand Festival of Shinryu Shrine in 2024 September 8 (Sun): Yoimiya Festival September 9 (Mon) [...] The Autumn Grand Festival of Shinryu Shrine in 2024 was held in Hokuryu Town for three days from September 8 (Sun) to September 10 (Tue).

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Shinryu Elementary School

September 11, 2024

Tuesday, September 10, 6th grade chorus. Please listen. *In a few days, this file will be moved to the "SONGS" corner [Manryu Elementary School].

Wednesday, September 11, 2024

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Special Nursing Home for the Elderly, Eirakuen

September 11, 2024

On September 9 (Mon.), we carried the portable shrine at the Autumn Grand Festival 【Special Nursing Home for the Elderly Eirakuen

Wednesday, September 11, 2024 View this post on Instagram A post shared by Eirakuen, Hokuryu Town (@eirakuen2050)

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Special Nursing Home for the Elderly, Eirakuen

September 11, 2024

On September 9 (Mon.), the Autumn Grand Festival was held. The event went off without a hitch under clear skies [Eirakuen Special Nursing Home for the Elderly].

Wednesday, September 11, 2024 View this post on Instagram A post shared by Eirakuen, Hokuryu Town (@eirakuen2050)

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September 11, 2024

Rice harvesting [Takada Co.

Wednesday, September 11, 2024 View this post on Instagram A post shared by Takada Akimitsu (@qiuguanggaotian)

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Hokuryu Kendama Club

September 11, 2024

Everyone synchronized in front of the lions ✨Thank you everyone 😊[Hokuryu Kendama Club].

Wednesday, September 11, 2024 View this post on Instagram A post shared by Hokuryu Kendama Club (@hokuryukendama)

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September 10, 2024

Giving thanks and prayers for the bamboo grass sushi at the Autumn Festival!

Tuesday, September 10, 2024 Monday, September 9, is the Autumn Festival of the Shinryu Shrine in Hokuryu-cho. Every year at this time, Mr. and Mrs. Kitajima, our neighbors, make by hand the Sasa Sushi! Thankfully, we are able to enjoy their heartfelt sasasushi [...].

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September 10, 2024

Preparation work for the 2024 Autumn Festival at Shinryu Shrine! Giving thanks for the autumn harvest with all our hearts and souls!

Tuesday, September 10, 2024 On Sunday, September 8, a large number of township members and shrine officers conducted preparation work for the autumn festival before the annual autumn festival at the Manryu Shrine. Preparation work for the Manryu Shrine Autumn Festival Gathering at 8:00 a.m. at the Manryu Shrine, [...]...

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Shinryu Elementary School

September 10, 2024

Monday, September 9, 5th Grade Music - We are learning about musical notes. How long do we stretch them, and which note goes with this note when this note and that note are combined? The children who got the hang of it are answering more and more [Manryu Elementary School].

Tuesday, September 10, 2024

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JA Kitasorachi Hokuryu Branch Office

September 10, 2024

R6.9.6 (Fri.) Here it comes, the first shipment of rice! The long-awaited new rice! JA Kitasorachi Hokuryu Branch Office

Tuesday, September 10, 2024 ◇ ◇ ◇ The first day of the month of September, 2024

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Hokuryu Kendama Club

September 10, 2024

Yesterday (9/8), I went to a Kendama event in Asahikawa. # Omata Jet from usual # Yunzuken with @yu_charoff whom I haven't seen in a while. I want to make a successful jet someday [Hokuryu Kendama Club].

Tuesday, September 10, 2024 View this post on Instagram A post shared by Hokuryu Kendama Club (@hokuryukendama)

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Hokuryu Kendama Club

September 10, 2024

3rd Anniversary Trick Battle, Assignment Trick, Baseball - Frown 5 times: Everyone is practicing. That alone is something to be happy about. I hope that the event will be filled with a lot of "I did it! I wish that the event will be filled with a lot of "I did it!

Tuesday, September 10, 2024 View this post on Instagram A post shared by Hokuryu Kendama Club (@hokuryukendama)

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Hokuryu Kendama Club

September 10, 2024

One of the tricks on the agenda for the 3rd Anniversary Tournament, the hand-plated platter - Ken: He's making a good decision. Children grow up fast. They say they can't do it, but once they get the hang of it, it's over in no time.

Tuesday, September 10, 2024 View this post on Instagram A post shared by Hokuryu Kendama Club (@hokuryukendama)

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Restaurant Mukohi

September 10, 2024

🌻 On September 9 (Mon), Bianca neve's pizza kitchen car was at the Cocowa parking lot 💜 It's very delicious, so please come and have lunch 🍕 【Mukohi at Dining Place】.

Tuesday, September 10, 2024 View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dining Mukohi🌻(@himawari_hokuryu)

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Somewhat of a farmer in Hokuryu Town (Mr. Tsukasa Takebayashi)

September 10, 2024

After the second year of solving the mystery [Somewhat of a farmer in Hokuryu Town (Mr. Tsukasa Takebayashi)].

Tuesday, September 10, 2024

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2024, Sunflower bloom status, news, etc.

September 10, 2024

Sunflowers will be back next summer. 2 million sunflowers will be plowed in Hokuryu [Hokkaido Shimbun Digital].

September 10, 2024 (Tue.) The Hokkaido Shimbun Digital, an Internet site operated by the Hokkaido Shimbun (Sapporo), published an article (dated September 9) titled "Sunflowers: See You Next Summer, Two Million Planted in Hokuryu," [...].

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JA Kitasorachi Hokuryu Branch Office

September 9, 2024

First shipment of new Sunflower Rice (sake rice and glutinous rice) produced in 2024! The great Hokuryu Town's new rice, grown with love and care!

September 9, 2024 (Mon.) On Friday, September 6, the first shipment of new Sunflower Rice (sake rice and glutinous rice) produced in 2024 was held at the Hokuryu Branch Office of JA Kitasorachi (Branch Manager Kimitoshi Washio). The first shipment of the 2024 crop of new Sunflower Rice (sake rice and glutinous rice) was held at JA Kitasorachi Hokuryu Branch (Branch Manager: Kimitoshi Washio).

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September 9, 2024

Radio calisthenics for the 2024 school year is over! Let's prepare our bodies well and get through the coming winter in good spirits!

September 9, 2024 The morning radio calisthenics organized by the Hokuryu Town Board of Education in fiscal 2024 was successfully completed on Friday, September 6, after having been conducted for 89 days since Monday, June 10, 2024. The three-month-long radio gymnastics [...].

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Shinryu Elementary School

September 9, 2024

Friday, September 6, 4th grade science class, "Trapping air and water" - What happens when you try to make a ball fly by trapping water instead of air? Would they come out with the same force as with air? The children make predictions. When it comes time to try the experiment outside... [Manryu Elementary School

Thursday, September 5, 2024

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Kuro Sengoku Business Cooperative

September 9, 2024

It depends on the grower, but some fields were over a meter high and had many pods! The green color looks great against the blue sky. There is still a long way to go before the harvest, but they are growing well ✨[Kuro Sengoku Business Cooperative].

Monday, September 9, 2024

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Logo "Bright Farming" in the town of Hokuryu
Yellow mailbox of happiness

Yasuhiro Sasaki, Mayor

　Yasuhiro Sasaki Mayor's Activity Report

Dear all!　I would like to talk to you.
We will use their voices in city planning!
Please feel free to stop by the Mayor's office.
Yasuhiro Sasaki Mayor
November-December Scheduled Activities

We tour and speak in Hokuryu Town every month.
　Mayor Yasuhiro Sasaki's inspection tour of the town

Outline of Hokuryu Town

Hokuryu Town, Map

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Area: 159 km² ❂ Area
❂ Population: 1,601 people[Month-over-month: - 5 ]
❂ Households:781 households[Month-over-month: − 3 ]
(December 1, 2024)
❂ Aging rate :46.0 % (0.5)(All roads, No. 19)
❂ Late aging rate :29.6% (%)(All the way No. 7)
(179 cities, towns, and villages in all provinces)As of January 1, 2024)

Hokuryu Town Web Site

Hokuryu Town Web Site

Town bus timetable

Town bus timetable

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
❂ Hometown Choice

❂ Rakuten Market

❂ ANA

❂ season

❂ call home

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