Students from Hokuryu Junior High School will be giving a guide to sunflowers around the world, sharing with visitors the difficulties, joys and emotions of growing flowers!

Monday, July 29, 2024

On Friday, July 26th, from 11:00 a.m., a "Sunflower Guide of the World" was held by students from Hokuryu Town Hokuryu Junior High School.

A guide to sunflowers around the world by students from Hokuryu Junior High School

The students will sincerely introduce the charm of the "Sunflowers of the World Praying for Peace" in the Sunflowers of the World corner.

The students welcomed everyone wearing matching blue T-shirts and black and white hats!

Hokuryu Junior High School students preparing
Hokuryu Junior High School students preparing
Sunflowers around the world praying for peace
Sunflowers around the world praying for peace

Guiding the 6th grade students of Shinryu Elementary School

On this day, sixth grade students from Shinryu Elementary School participated in the World Sunflower Guide.

We learned about sunflowers around the world by listening to explanations from our junior high school seniors.

Sixth graders from Shinryu Elementary School also participated in the guided tour!
Sixth graders from Shinryu Elementary School also participated in the guided tour!

Third to fifth graders from Shinryu Elementary School go around the village

Third to fifth graders from Shinryu Elementary School took a tour of Sunflower Village.

Students from Shinryu Elementary School visit Sunflower Village!
Students from Shinryu Elementary School visit Sunflower Village!

The Hokuryu Junior High School "Sunflower Committee" is the main organizer of the cultivation.

24 varieties of "Sunflowers from around the World" cultivated, cared for and carefully nurtured by all 35 students at Hokuryu Junior High School (Principal Sakai Makoto).

A "Sunflower Committee" has been formed at Hokuryu Junior High School, and during the "integrated learning period" all students work seriously on growing the sunflowers, from sowing the seeds and weeding to volunteer guiding, and even cleaning up afterwards.

In this "Sunflower Guide of the World," all 35 students worked in pairs to carefully and clearly explain to the tourists visiting the area the names, origins, height, and characteristics of sunflowers, and also answered their various questions.

Guide pattern

Principal Sadao Kamata of Shinryu Elementary School also participated in the tour and received an explanation.

Principal Kamata of Shinryu Elementary School listens intently to the guide's explanation
Principal Kamata of Shinryu Elementary School listens intently to the guide's explanation

Children watching intently

Children watching intently
Children watching intently

Take a commemorative photo!

Take a commemorative photo!
Take a commemorative photo!

Explanation & Response

  • guide:A sunflower with about 10 flowers on one stem.
    Elementary school students:Indeed, there are a lot of buds. They'll bloom in full soon.
  • guide:The petals are brown and resemble the earth.
    Elementary school students:It's true, it's the color of brown earth!
  • guide:A small sunflower that can be displayed on a table
    Elementary school students:So tiny! So cute!
  • guide:It was really hard to grow them, weeding and thinning them out.
  • guide:The contrast between brown and orange is a beautiful sunflower.
    Elementary school students:The way the colors blend together here is so beautiful.
  • guide:The sunflower has a vibrant yellow-green center
    Elementary school students:The petals gather together and the whole thing looks very lively!
  • guide:This is a tall Russian sunflower. It's taller than me.
    Elementary school students:I can't reach it even if I jump!
  • tourist:What happened to the seeds?
    guide:These seeds were ordered by someone from the agricultural cooperative.
  • tourist:You don't collect seeds from blooming flowers and plant them.
    guide:Sow new seeds every year

Comments after the explanation

After listening to the guide's explanation, guests will be asked to write down their impressions in a tent. After being offered cold water and writing their impressions, they will be given a gift of their favorite sunflower seeds from 24 different kinds from around the world!

Inside the tent, you will be treated to cold water!

Welcome with cold water provided
Welcome with cold water provided

Fill out the questionnaire and comments after the explanation

Write your thoughts
Write your thoughts

Tourists' impressions

  • The sunflowers I had carefully cultivated were blooming beautifully, and it was a very happy moment to see them.
  • The explanation was very detailed, so I was able to understand even the small details of the flowers.
  • I was moved by the many beautiful sunflowers that the junior high school students had grown after much hard work.
  • I heard that there are flowers that are difficult to grow, so I thought it must be hard work. Thank you very much.

Sunflower seeds from around the world as a gift

Choose your favorite sunflower seeds!

Sunflower seeds from around the world as a gift
Sunflower seeds from around the world as a gift

24 types of sunflower seeds

24 types of sunflower seeds
24 types of sunflower seeds

Which one should I choose? I'm so confused!

Which one should I choose? I'm so confused!
Which one should I choose? I'm so confused!

Welcoming you with lovely smiling sunflowers

A lovely smiling sunflower welcomes you
A lovely smiling sunflower welcomes you

Sunflowers around the world praying for peace

Sunflowers around the world praying for peace
Sunflowers around the world praying for peace
Sunflower Guide of the World
Sunflower Guide of the World

Sunflowers from around the world, lovingly and carefully grown by all the junior high school students!

We are filled with boundless love, gratitude, and prayers for the heartfelt hospitality of the students, who convey to the tourists visiting the area the difficulties, joys, and emotions of growing flowers.

Thank you to the students for their sincere hospitality!
Thank you to the students for their sincere hospitality!

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◇ Interview and text: Ikuko Terauchi (Photography and editing assistance: Noboru Terauchi)