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    • Sunflower Village - Photo
  • special product
    • Sales of Hokuryu rice produced in 2024 will be suspended [JA Kitasorachi]
    • sunflower rice
    • sunflower melon
    • sunflower (Helianthus annuus)
    • Kurokeshi Soybeans
    • Kuro Sengoku related articles
    • sunflower oil
    • Sunflower oil related articles
    • 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
    • Agricultural and Livestock Products Direct Sales Minorichi-Hokuryu
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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: 1,560 people[Month-over-month: – 2 ]
❂ Households:766 households[Month-over-month: – 4 ]
(December 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
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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
❂ 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
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❂ JA Kitasorachi Hokuryu Branch Office
❂ JA-Kita Sorauchi
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❂ 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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❂ 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)
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❂ Ei no Mori Activity Organization (Representative: Osamu Kato)
❂ hanamarche2022 Instagram
❂ tumugi1114 Instagram
 
❂ Hokuryu Sunflower Osteopathic Clinic
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❂ 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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