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The 36th Hokuryu Town Sunflower Festival has begun [Hokuryu Town Website]

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The 36th Hokuryu Town Sunflower Festival has begun [Hokuryu Town Website]
The 36th Hokuryu Town Sunflower Festival has begun [Hokuryu Town Website]

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  • 2 Mayor Sasaki Yasuhiro
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  • 4 Hokuryu Town Homepage
  • 5 New local public transportation service launched (R7 10.1.)
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  • 7 Hokuryu Town Hometown Tax

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❂ Area: 159 km²
❂ Population: 1,560 people[Compared to previous month: – 2 】
❂ Household:766 households[Compared to previous month: – 4 】
(December 1, 2025)
❂ 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)

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    Updated on Thursday, November 5th and Friday, December 5th, 2025. To everyone! We want to talk to you! We will use your voices to improve our town...

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    Published on Wednesday, October 1, 2025, updated on Monday, October 6. Hokuryu Town's new local public transportation system will be operational from Wednesday, October 1, 2025.

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❂ Hokuryu Town Chamber of Commerce
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❂ Minoritch Kitaryu Instagram
❂ Group Home Hekisui Facebook page
❂ Hokuko Construction Co., Ltd.
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❂ Kitaso Co., Ltd.
❂ Fujioka Tsumagami Co., Ltd.
❂ Honoka Agricultural Cooperative Instagram

❂ Takada Co., Ltd. Instagram
❂ Agricultural Cooperative Corporation Toyoryu Farm Instagram
❂ NPO Akarui Farming Instagram
❂ Ryusenji Temple, Jodo Shinshu Honganji

❂ Hokuryu Town Sunflower Chorus Facebook Page
❂ Hokuryu Kendama Club Instagram
❂ Self-cutting forestry and natural forestry (Tatsuya Uei)
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❂ Naganomori Activity Organization (Representative: Osamu Kato)
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❂ Hokuryu Sunflower Osteopathic Clinic
○ Hokuryu Himawari Osteopathic Clinic Facebook Page
❂ Restaurant Himawari
○ Restaurant Himawari Instagram
❂ Kitchen Harebare
❂ tokadin715 and Mr. and Mrs. Takeshita
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❂ Sunflower Town Craft Marche (Creema)
○ HandMade In Japan Fes' Winter (2026) Instagram
○ Craft Marche Instagram
❂ YouTube Channel: Hiroyuki Takimoto
○ t_hiro Channel
❂ Mr. Takebayashi, a farmer from Hokuryu Town
❂ Hokuryu Board Game Club (Claystone Projects)
 
❂ Mizuho Farmers Agricultural Cooperative Facebook Page
❂ Straw Crafts Nuku's Instagram
❂ Hokuryu Marche Instagram
❂ AgriFighter North Dragon Facebook Page
❂ Activity report by Yutaka Sano, former mayor of Hokuryu Town
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Hokuryu Town HallLatest 8 articles

    • December 18, 2025

    #4 Miharu Yamagami | Turning the dream of agriculture into a job and making agriculture a dream job [Around the Sunflowers] Your story living in this town

    • December 4, 2025

    #3 Kiyohiko Fujinobu | Thinking about the future of Hokuryu Town through the work of our ancestors and the work of the construction industry [Around the Sunflowers] Your story living in this town

    • December 4, 2025

    Gifting babies with original picture books: Hokuryu Town depicts the charm of Hokuryu with a warm touch [Kita Sorachi Shimbun]

    • December 2, 2025

    Celebrating the birth of life. The completion of the one-of-a-kind original picture book "Your Picture Book" and the day author Nagao Takuma carved into Hokuryu Town

    • December 1, 2025

    Recruiting "Local Career Partners" and "Business Challenge Fellows" (Second round of recruitment) [Hokuryu Town website]

    • November 25, 2025

    Exhibiting at the "New Farmers Fair" held at Tokyo Big Sight on Sunday, November 23, 2025 [Hokuryu Town Website]

    • November 20, 2025

    [Hokuryu Town Exhibit: November 22nd (Sat) and 23rd (Sun)] JOIN Migration, Exchange & Regional Revitalization Fair 2025 @ Tokyo Big Sight

    • November 17, 2025

    Shinryu Elementary School Recruiting Special Needs Education Support Staff [Hokuryu Town Website]

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