Photographed on January 24, 2014.
This is LEC COFFEE’s kumquat Basque cheesecake.
It contains kumquats and is delicious. 😊🍊

Announcement: Eastern Hokkaido Three Cycle Routes Traveling Panel Exhibition in Sapporo Ekimae-dori Underground Walkway (Chi-Ka-Ho)📣

Sharing the charms of cycle routes in the eastern Hokkaido region

To introduce the attractions of the eastern Hokkaido cycle routes—Akan, Mashu and the Kushiro Wetland Route; Tokachi 400; and the Okhotsk Cycling Route—we will hold a panel exhibition at the Sapporo Ekimae-dori Underground Walkway (Chi-Ka-Ho) so that many people can learn about them 😊

The exhibition will feature panels introducing the attractions of the Akan, Mashu and the Kushiro Wetland Route, Tokapuchi 400, and the Okhotsk Cycling Route; displays of various rental bicycles; event information; and distribution of cycle route maps. Please stop by 🚵‍♀️🚵🚵‍♂️

Location and times: Friday, January 30, 2026, 1:00 PM–5:00 PM
Saturday, January 31, 2026, 10:00 AM–4:00 PM

Venue: Sapporo Ekimae-dori Underground Walkway, Kita 1-jo Event Space (near Exit 12)

Co-hosts: Hokkaido TOKACHI Cycle Tourism Route Promotion Council, Kushiro Cycle Tourism Promotion Council, Okhotsk Route Council, Obihiro Development and Construction Department, Kushiro Development and Construction Department, Abashiri Development and Construction Department

Support: Hokkaido

For detailed route information, please refer to the website below.

https://www.mlit.go.jp/road/bicycleuse/good-cycle-japan/national_cycle_route/

On a clear, cold winter day, our family enjoyed flying kites in a park with a great view of Mount Fuji.

Photographed on January 24, Heisei 26.
This is a hot sandwich set from LEC COFFEE.
The hot sandwich has egg, lettuce, and bacon, served with a white vegetable potage and a salad with homemade ham. It also contains satoimo (taro).
I ate something delicious, so I feel like I can do my best starting tomorrow. 😊

Photographed on January 24, 2014.
This is Chabudai-san's morning meal. This week it is a kabuto (turnip) and milk soup. The amanatsu marmalade is very tasty.
Time has flown, and today the winter break comes to an end.

Recruiting the 32nd Tokachi Aozora Lady ☀️

We are now accepting applications for the Tokachi PR ambassadors known as the Tokachi Aozora Lady, who will promote Tokachi’s tourism and local products through activities at events within Tokachi and product fairs inside and outside Hokkaido, as well as media appearances.

Would you like to brighten Tokachi’s tourism with your cheerful smile?

If you are interested, please feel free to apply 🤗

📌Eligibility

📍Women aged 20 or over living in Tokachi who are physically and mentally healthy and able to agree to all terms of the Tokachi Aozora Lady program guidelines and participate in tourism events and product fairs both inside and outside the region (married or unmarried).

📍Holders of a regular driver’s license who have obtained approval from their workplace and family to carry out Lady activities.

📌How to apply
Please attach a photo to your résumé, write your reason for applying, and include information confirming that you meet the eligibility requirements, then mail or bring it in person to the Tokachi Tourism Federation Secretariat by Friday, February 20.

We look forward to receiving many applications 🎵

https://tokachibare.jp/20506/

Hokkaido Travel for Women Project

Mombetsu City Tourism Support Division
Original goods featuring Rinne Himi are on sale!

Store exclusive
• Rinne Himi acrylic figure
• Rinne Himi pin badge

On the website, Rinne introduces the charms of Mombetsu City!
Search for “Hokkaido Travel for Women Project” now‼
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The 63rd Monbetsu Drift Ice Festival
Friday, February 6, 2026–Sunday, February 8, 2026

Main ice sculpture decided! Itsukushima Shrine, marking its 150th anniversary as the shrine’s founding, Monbetsu City

Please check the official website for details on events and more

With the drift ice sightseeing season underway, the Monbetsu City Tourist Volunteer Guide Association will open a temporary tourist information desk to help make visitors’ trips to Monbetsu more memorable.

This weekend and next weekend, the desk will be at the bus terminal, and the following week it will be at the Drift Ice Festival venue…
We will provide information on the city loop bus, restaurants, and Monbetsu’s attractions.👍

We are also running an Instagram follow campaign. Follow the Guide Association’s official Instagram account and receive a postcard featuring photos taken by our members as a gift‼︎ Take home a memento of Monbetsu’s lesser-seen charms.✨

Hours are 10:00–15:00 (may vary slightly)
Please stop by and use the service…

Kousanji, a Koyasan Shingon temple in Inaricho, Tanabe City, is in Wakayama Prefecture’s southern region, where cold days continue, but a single hikanzakura planted on the temple grounds has reached its peak bloom. Plum blossoms are also beginning to open here and there, letting you feel spring drawing closer little by little.

Utonai-ko (Lake Utonai) looks at first glance like a snowy plain when it freezes over.
Roadside Station Utonai Lake posts warnings across its social media asking people not to walk onto the ice and not to leave the trail and enter the scrub.
Please keep these notices in mind for the safety and coexistence of people and wildlife.🙏
(Image provided by Roadside Station Utonai Lake)

Today I explored Kawagoe.
Chabudai’s HOT natsumikan.
It warms the body. ☺️🍊
Yesterday I explored Tokyo and Ōmiya.👟

hoshino resort tomamu
Ice Village
This is a wedding at the Ice Chapel.

Three ceremonies are held each day, and fireworks are set off at the end of each service.

In front of Yonezawa Shrine in Yamagata Prefecture.
I photographed a lone tree against the blue sky, using the raised snowbank formed by roadside snow clearing as the foreground.

In Shimizu Yoshiwara, Shizuoka City.
I took a long exposure before sunrise over Mount Fuji, keeping some city lights in the frame to capture the pre-dawn scene.

On a bitterly cold winter morning, before the sun broke the horizon, I found a frosty fantasy on the window glass.

Around Shiga Highlands / Ishinoyu.
On a cold morning, rime ice had formed on a small tree at my feet and glittered.

At Shiga Highlands.
Against a clear blue sky, trees dusted with fresh snow on their branches stood out beautifully.

Around Maruike in the Shiga Highlands.
On a morning after fresh snow fell, the sparkling new snow was dazzling.

The exercise rides for horses at Tokachi Ranch have started again this year.
They are said to have begun to relieve lack of exercise in pregnant mares.
Now they have become a popular midwinter event in the Tokachi region.