[ANA Travel & Life] Sunflower fields, lavender fields, and even a remote train station. Hokkaido boasts Japan's best attractions here

July 2, 2021
Hokuryu Town related information
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Friday, July 2, 2021

We would like to introduce Hokuryu Town Himawari no Sato, which has been featured in the web magazine "Travel & Life" on the ANA website, which has the theme of "Enriching travel and everyday life."

Images from the Hokuryu Town Portal were used.

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table of contents

1 Hokuryu Town logo "Bright Farming Methods" and Happy Yellow Postbox
2 Mayor Sasaki Yasuhiro
3 Overview of Hokuryu Town
4 Hokuryu Town Homepage
5 New local public transportation service launched (R7 10.1.)
6 Hokuryu Town introduction page
7 Hokuryu Town Hometown Tax

Hokuryu Town logo "Bright Farming Methods"
Yellow Post of Happiness

Mayor Sasaki Yasuhiro

The mayor talks about Hokuryu's vision for the future

Mayor Yasuhiro Sasaki's Activity Report

To everyone! I want to talk to you.
We will use your feedback to develop the city!
Please feel free to drop by the Mayor's Office.
January activity schedule　February activity schedule

We tour Hokuryu Town every month to give talks.
Mayor Yasuhiro Sasaki explores the charms of the town

Overview of Hokuryu Town

Click here for a larger map >>

❂ Area: 159 km²
❂ Population: 1,551 people[Compared to previous month: – 9 】
❂ Household:760 households[Compared to previous month: – 6 】
(January 1, 2026)
❂ Aging rate:46.2%(20th route in the entire prefecture)
❂ Late-stage aging rate:29.6%(13th in the entire prefecture)
(179 cities, towns and villages in the prefectureAs of January 1, 2025）

Hokuryu Town Homepage

New local public transportation service launched (R7 10.1.)

On-demand & scheduled routes

Hokuryu Town introduction page

Hokuryu Town Hometown Tax

❂ Furunavi
❂ Hometown Choice

❂ Rakuten Market

❂ ANA

❂ Saison

❂ Satofull

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[ANA Travel & Life] Sunflower fields, lavender fields, and even a remote train station. Hokkaido boasts Japan's best attractions here

ANA Travel & life

Hokuryu Town Portal

[Bus Trip] [Bus Comparison Guide] Let's go to the sunflower fields on a bus tour! Hokuryu Sunflower Village

"A Little Good Story" No. 186 - All Right! Nippon Grand Prize [Yohei Sasakawa Blog (Chairman of the Nippon Foundation)]

Hokuryu Town related informationLatest 8 articles

[Maybe Hokuryu Town's Himawari Village is in it!?] The true nature of "too serious Japan" recreated in Forza Horizon 6 [Misaki's game seems complicated]

To alleviate labor shortages, Hokuryu establishes a union for rice planting, snow removal, and other businesses. Town expands side job system. [Hokkaido Shimbun Digital]

[Kurosengoku Soybeans] Oshikiri Foods' Tokachi Natto: Made with carefully selected ingredients, delivering the sweetness and firm texture of soybeans. <Northern Food Story> [Hokkaido Shimbun Digital]

[Originally from Hokuryu Town] <Memories of the Rumoi Line> Singing, learning, and having fun, says Chieko Mineta (73) from Sunagawa City. [Hokkaido Shimbun Digital]

To secure workers, Hokuryu launches "Specific Regional Development Business Cooperative Association," the first of its kind in the Sorachi region. [Kita Sorachi Shimbun]

Hokuryu Town distributes gift certificates worth 26,000 yen to each resident [Hokkaido Shimbun Digital]

[Hokuryu Town native] Hamatonbetsu Town mayoral election incumbent Minami announces candidacy, saying he will "continue the achievements of his first term" [Hokkaido Shimbun Digital]