- May 12, 2026
☀️🌞 We have received an order for a bento box. It will cost 1500 yen. We look forward to serving you again! [Kitchen Haruharu]
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- May 12, 2026
☀️🌞 Today is the birthday of one of our regular customers' wives. She asked us to make a birthday cake for her. The master baker put his heart and soul into making it. It's a fruit cake made with plenty of fruit♪ [Kitchen Haruharu]
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- May 11, 2026
Sunflower pork, Kurosenkoku soybeans, the warmth of homemade goods — a place where all the best things from Hokuryu come together! Sunflower Park Hokuryu Onsen has been renovated.
On Monday, May 11, 2026, the shop at the roadside station "Sunflower Park Hokuryu" was reborn as "Hokuryu Baiten." We introduce this bright and open new space, packed with Hokuryu town's proud products. [2...]
- May 11, 2026
Minorichi Hokuryu had its grand opening yesterday, Saturday, May 9th. Unfortunately, it rained yesterday, but thankfully the rain stopped by opening time, allowing the Hokuryu Taiko drum performance to proceed without incident. [Minorichi Hokuryu]
May 11, 2026 (Monday) View this post on Instagram Post shared by Minorichi Hokuryu (@minorichi_hokuryu)
- May 11, 2026
In the eight flower greenhouses, we finished planting the last three Statice sinuata this morning. It was a hot day for the first time in a while, so everyone was drenched in sweat. [Nagano Mori Activity Organization (Representative: Osamu Kato)]
May 11, 2026 (Monday) View this post on Instagram Post shared by Hisashinomori Activity Organization (@hisashinomori)
- May 11, 2026
🌞☀️ A customer gave us some beef tongue. We made beef tongue stew with it. We simmered it for 7 hours. It was incredibly tender, the beef tongue was so soft it almost fell apart, making it a truly luxurious beef tongue stew. [Kitchen Haruharu]
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- May 11, 2026
[Hokuryu Town Sunflower Village] [Japanese Landscape] Vibrant colors adorn the summer. New summer-themed jigsaw puzzles from the Japanese Landscape series will be released in late May 2026. [PR TIMES] [Mainichi Shimbun]
On May 11, 2026 (Monday), the Mainichi Shimbun, an internet site operated by Mainichi Shimbun Co., Ltd. (Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo), published a press release titled "[Japanese Landscape] Bright colors adorn the summer. From the Japanese Landscape Series..." regarding the Hokuryu Town Sunflower Village.
- May 11, 2026
[Hokuryu Town Participation] "Towards a land where people can give birth and raise children with peace of mind, no matter where they live. The role of online consultations in bridging the 'mobility barrier' in Hokkaido" [Kids Public Co., Ltd.] [PRTIMES]
On May 11, 2026 (Monday), PR TIMES Co., Ltd. (Minato-ku, Tokyo) published an article on its website, PRTIMES, titled "[Hokuryu Town Participates] Towards a land where people can give birth and raise children with peace of mind, no matter where they live. Overcoming the 'mobility barrier' in Hokkaido [...]"
- May 11, 2026
Hokuryu Town: Elementary school students learn proper cycling techniques for traffic safety [NHK News]
On May 11, 2026 (Monday), an article titled "Hokuryu Town: Bicycle Traffic Safety - Elementary School Students Learn the Correct Way to Ride a Bicycle" (updated May 7) was published on NHK's internet site, [NHK News]. We would like to share it with you. […]
- May 8, 2026
Mizuho Co., Ltd.'s Journey of Dense Seedlings 2026, Part 4 | Life Awakening Under Silver Polyethylene - The Front Lines of Seedling Cultivation Supporting 100 Hectares
On May 8th, 2026 (Friday), on May 3rd (Sunday), rice seedlings sprouted under the silver poly sheets in Mizuho Corporation's (President and CEO: Masami Komatsu) seedling greenhouses all emerged at once. This marks the beginning of the sowing, seedling cultivation, and subsidy operations supporting 100 hectares of land. […]