50 Years of the Tourism Association’s History [1970s] Year Month Major Events 1970 May 1st Hokuryu Town Cherry Blossom Festival held (Konpirayama Park) 🌻 The town started a three-year project to develop Konpirayama Park (roads, holidays, etc.)
50 Years of the Tourism Association’s History [1980s] Year Month Major Events 1980 4 Susumu Yotsutsuji, an agricultural cooperative employee who participated in a European inspection training program, saw the sunflower fields around Belgrade Airport in the former Yugoslavia.
50 Years of the Tourism Association: The 1980s: New Frontier Festival New Frontier Festival In 1987, NHK Hokkaido launched the "Hometown Pride and Song Pride Competition" in an effort to revitalize Hokkaido.
50 Years of the Tourism Association’s History [1990s] Year Month Major Events 1990 4 Tetsuo Sasaki appointed as the Tourism Association’s president 5 The 21st Hokuryu Town Cherry Blossom Festival was held (Konpirayama Park) 6 “Safety measures to protect the lives and health of the people […]”
50 Years of the Tourism Association [2000s] Year Month Major Events 2000 5 Expanded the Himawari no Sato area from 13ha to 14.5ha 5 Appointed 10 people as "Hokuryu Tourism Ambassadors" (Hajime Hoshiba, Tomoya Shimizu, Susumu Yotsutsuji, Fujie […]
50 Years of the Tourism Association [2010s] Year Month Major Events 2010 7 Renovation of the Himawari no Sato Observatory 8 The Sunflower Festival fireworks display, which was canceled last year, will resume 🌻 Expressway […]
50 Years of the Tourism Association [2020s] Year Month Major Events Reiwa 2 (2020) 2 After the Sapporo Snow Festival (Sapporo City), which attracted approximately 2 million tourists from Japan and abroad, came to a close on the 13th, the COVID-19 outbreak […]
Cherry Blossom Festival (1970-1991) The Cherry Blossom Festival was held in mid-May, and was a huge success, even during the busy agricultural season. Environmental Beautification Campaign: Flower-filled Campaign: The Chamber of Commerce Women's Division installed flower pots (VSP project […]
Initially, sunflowers were planted on 1.4km of farmland, 20m wide and 1.4km long, from the Wa district to Wa city and from Sunflower Park to Hekisui city, as a tourist landscape crop, with subsidies from the town. Later, as part of the "Multifunctionality Payment Project," the town received subsidies to plant sunflowers.
Agricultural Festival, Town Citizens' Festival, Sunflower Festival: 1960s-1980s tr style=”height: 63.75pt;”>Showa 65 (1985) The 21st Town Citizens' Festival was held on August 1 […]
Agricultural Festival ~ Town Festival ~ Sunflower Festival: 1990s Year Name Date Contents 1990 4th Sunflower Festival Himawari no Sato Main Venue August 4th - August 25th Himawari no Sato Hiking & […]
