"Hokuryu Town Sunflower Tourism Association 50th Anniversary Commemorative Book" Cover and Spine
❂ Issued by: Hokuryu Town Sunflower Tourism Association (Chairman: Yukio Takada)
❂ Edited by: Editorial Committee (Chairman: Masahito Fujii)
❂ Date of issue: February 2024
❂ Online release: Wednesday, July 17, 2024 on the Hokuryu Town Portal
Digital Table of Contents:( ) indicates the page number of the commemorative book
- On the Publication (1)
❂ Yukio Takada, Chairman of the Himawari Tourism Association (1)
❂ Former Hokuryu Town Mayor Yutaka Sano (2)
❂ Former Hokuryu Town Council Chairman Yasuhiro Sasaki (3)
❂ Masahito Fujii (4), Chairman of the Hokuryu Town Chamber of Commerce
❂ Former Kitasorachi Agricultural Cooperative Association Regional Representative Director Kitakiyohiro (5)
❂ Hokkaido Chuo Bus Tourism Promotion Headquarters Deputy Director General Ebisuya Yukio (6)
❂ Former presidents of the Tourism Association (7th-8th) - History of the Establishment of the Tourism Association (9-10)
❂ We are looking for participants for the "Sandan-no-Taki" sightseeing tour [Community Office Newsletter] (9)
❂ Name changed to Hokuryu Town Sunflower Tourism Association (10) - 50-year history of the Tourism Association (11-25)
❂ 1970s (11)
❂ 1980s (12~13)
❂ 1980s: New Frontier Festival (14)
❂ 1990s (15~16)
❂ 2000s (17~18)
❂ 2000s: Minato Kobe 2001 Sunflower Citizen Symposium (19-20)
❂ 2010s (21~23)
❂ 2020s (24~25) - The Four Seasons of Hokuryu Town (26-29)
- Major projects of tourism associations, etc. (30-45)
❂ Cherry Blossom Festival and Environmental Clean-up Campaign (30)
❂ Farmers' Action Group "Multifunctionality Payment" (Himawari Road) (31)
❂ Agriculture Festival ~ Townspeople Festival ~ Sunflower Festival (32~45)
❂ 1965-1980s (32-33)
❂ 1990s (34-36)
❂ 2000s (37~39)
❂ 2010s to 2023 (40-43)
❂ Images (44-45) - List of awards, certificates of appreciation, etc. (46)
❂ Awards and certificates of appreciation (47-50) - Hokuryu Town Tourist Facilities (51-57)
❂ ① Sandan-no-taki Falls (51)
❂ ② Konpira Park (52)
❂ ③ Sunflower Village (53)
❂ ④ Sunflower Park Hokuryu Onsen ⑤ View Hill ⑥ Dragon God's Onko (54)
❂ ⑦ Yew Forest and Literary Forest (55-56)
❂ Trends in tourists to Hokuryu Town (57) - Budgets and settlements for tourism associations, etc. (58-60)
- Tourism data (61-63)
❂ Images (64-67) - Tourism Development Plans and Concepts (68-72)
❂ Keidai-dake Development Plan (Ski Resort) (68)
❂ Sunflower Park Basic Concept (69-70)
❂ Sunflower Village Master Plan (71-72) - Tourism posters (1973-1975)
- Memories of the Tourism Association (76-79)
❂ Tsutomu Sakamoto (76), former chairman of the Hokuryu Town Sunflower Tourism Association
❂ Hokuryu Town Deputy Mayor Toshimasa Takahashi (77)
❂ Nobuhiro Yamada (78), former Secretary General of the Himawari Tourism Association
❂ Susumu Asano (79), former manager of the Hokuryu Town Himawari Tourist Center - Tourism mascots (80)
- Ambassador for Tourism and Hometown Ambassador (81-83)
- Development of local specialties and tourism promotion activities (84-95)
❂ Specialty Product Development (84-90)
❂ Tourism and local product promotion activities (1991-1995) - Tourism promotion volunteers, etc. (96-108)
❂ Tourism and local product promotion activities, etc. 1 (96-100)
❂ Tourism and local product promotion activities, etc. 2 (101-105)
❂ Tourism and local product promotion activities, etc. 3 (106-108) - Sunflower Festival flyer (109-118)
- Hokuryu Town Sunflower Tourism Association Regulations (119-120)
- List of officers and secretariat of Hokuryu Town Sunflower Tourism Association (121-122)
- Editor's Note (123)
"Hokuryu Town Sunflower Tourism Association 50th Anniversary Commemorative Book" [Table of Contents]
"Hokuryu Town Sunflower Tourism Association 50th Anniversary Commemorative Book" [Table of Contents]


