Photographed on August 15, 25.
This is CAFE ANDON's homemade lemonade. 🍋

This is a meyer cat taken at Maruyama Zoo in Sapporo City, Hokkaido in July.
It was impressive to see him leaning against the glass in the severe heat of Japan.
Animals are hot, too!

Arao City Mascot Character "Majacky LINE Stamp" Released!!

Arao City Mascot Character "Majackie"
LINE Stamp is now available! !!
https://line.me/S/sticker/31230300

Majackie Stamp - LINE Stamp | LINE STORE
Production: Arao City Tourism Association

2005 (Heisei 17) (2005) In July, "Majaku" was selected as the fish of Arao City.
Majaku, a fish in Arao City, has long been popular as a type of shrimp that lives on tidal flats and is close to Yadokari.
Born on July 3rd (Arao Tidal Flats Day), Majackie is the prince of the Majaku world!
I am working to come into contact with many people in various places in Arao and convey the wonderfulness of the tidal flats.
Majackie does her best to make the people who live in Arao and Arao smile Visitors!
Please use the Majacky LINE Stamp that tweets the words of Kumamoto and Arao! !!
https://line.me/S/sticker/31230300

Event and Call for Participants📣

On Saturday, September 20th, we will hold the “Mt. Memuro Climb” to celebrate the first anniversary of the designation of the Hidaka Mountain Range, Erimo, and Tokachi as a national park 😊

This climb takes place on Mt. Memuro, which spans Shimizu and Hidaka towns🎵🎵

Why not take this opportunity to challenge one of Hokkaido’s 100 Famous Mountains, Mt. Memuro⛰
Enjoy nature, relieve daily fatigue, and refresh both body and mind!!

We look forward to your participation 🤗

📌Schedule
6:00 Gather at Shimizu Town Hall Mikage Branch (transfer to the trailhead by microbus)

7:30 Planned start of climb

📍Who can join: Physically fit hikers (if we judge that a participant cannot reach checkpoints in time, they may be asked to stop partway)

📍Capacity: 30 people (lottery if applications exceed capacity)

📍Attire: Standard hiking gear (including rainwear)

📌How to apply: By Tuesday, August 26, 2025, please call the contact below and submit the application form.

📍Contact
Mt. Memuro Climb Executive Committee Office (Shimizu Town Hall Commerce and Tourism Division)
Phone: 0156-62-1156

https://www.town.shimizu.hokkaido.jp/section/08/details/post_72.html

【BB Farm & BB SHEEP COFFEE】
Blueberry tourist farm with kitchen car resident
Opened in August 2024, it is a farm where you can enjoy experience-based sightseeing. Blueberries are only available for about one month from August, but we have a lot of content to enjoy harvesting, such as tomatoes and pumpkins. You can also experience baking pizza using vegetables harvested by yourself, which can be enjoyed by both children and adults. 
Light snacks and drinks are served in the Kitchen Car, and depending on the season, products made from farm-grown fruits are also sold.

Light snacks such as delicious drinks in the Kitchen Car, Light Snacks such as pizza, and even sweets are available. There is still time to participate in the blueberry and vegetable harvesting experience, so please give it ✨ a try

【BB Farm & BB SHEEP COFFEE】
〒088-3462 3-64-19 Kawayu Ekimae, Teshikaga Town, Kawakami District, Hokkaido
Phone: 090-8667-5805
Fee / Blueberry picking
¥2,000 / Adult (junior high school students and above)
¥1,500/elementary school student
¥1000 / infant (4 years old and over)
Car parking available
Regular holiday and Thursday
Access・10 minutes walk from JR Kawayu Onsen Station
Open season: June to November
Business hours・10:00~16:00
Take-out available

For more information, please contact BB Farm or BB SHEEP COFFEE directly.

https://www.masyuko.or.jp/enjoy/bbfarm/

Nishi-Izu's Tourist Information is [@nishiizu.kankou]
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Sunset No.1 in Japan Events a total of four days of fireworks over two weeks, Held in in Nishi-Izu Town and Dogashima Hot Spring Village.
Against the backdrop of a beautiful sunset called the magic hour after sunset, a condensed Powerful Presence fireworks is launched in about 10 minutes. Enjoy the autumn fireworks in Dogashima with your family and friends.
〜Held in Information〜
[Held in days] Held in for 4 days!
Saturday, September 27, 2025 and Sunday, September 28, 2025
Saturday, October 4 and Sunday, October 5
【Held in time】17:45~ about 10 minutes
【Held in】Dogashima Park
【Car parking lot】Approx. 200 cars
Dogashima Park, Sunset Plaza Dogashima (2nd and 3rd Car Parking Lots), Former Rannosato Car Parking Lot
[Remarks]
Postponement in case of light rain or stormy weather to the day after the last day
In case of Postponement, we will inform you on the Tourism Association social media
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【Nishiizu Tourism Association】
2910-2 Nishina, Nishi-Izu Town, Kamo-gun, Shizuoka
📞0558-52-1268

🎆 Shintoku Fireworks Festival 🎆
🎇 "Brilliant Night" 🎇

Date: Saturday, August 23, 2025
Time: 17:00 - Venue
　　　 19:00 - Launch start
Venue: Shintoku Town Baseball Stadium

* In case of rain, it will be postponed to Sunday 24th.
　In that case, it will be announced on the Shintoku Town website at 10:00.

Stalls of 6 stores in the In 💁 ♀️ the town
　@ramen_miurashouten
　@rocky_kitchencar
　@yuka_cyoko
　@hokkohmilk
　@tasogare_na_showashokudo
　#Koyanagi Foods

Delicious ramen, yaki Soba noodles, frankfurters and sweet desserts are all available in Shintoku Town 😋!
In addition, there is a bingo tournament limited to junior high school students and younger.
There is also a 🎷 brass band performance

There will also be a countdown from 19:00 to launch. We look 🎆 forward to seeing the venue lively from everyone

#Hokkaido
#Tokachi
#Shintoku Town
#Shintoku
#Fireworks Festival
#Brilliant Night
#2025
#Shintoku Tourism Association
#Shintoku Station
#Station front Complex facility
#tuktuk
##hokkaido
#firework
#hokkaidotrip
#hokkaidotourism
#tourism
#tokachi
#shintoku
#welcomeshintoku
#discovershintoku

🌳 Today's "Tokachi Ranch Birch Tree" 🌳

A row of birch trees designated as "Birin" in Otofuke.
At this time of year, the leaves are colored dark green, and the combination of the blue sky and the white trunk is 🍃 very beautiful

Please experience the unique scenery of Tokachi locally!

Aina: "I'm full... Next time, I'll play with a wooden stick."

Photographed on August 15, 25.
CAFE ANDON's peach and lime Parfait. 🍑🍋‍🟩

The base is layered with sweet and sour framboise and peach sauce, vanilla crumble, lime panna cotta, heavy cream, and peach and lime confiture.
I put forest/ranch soft serve ice cream on top and decorated with peaches, vanilla crumble, raspberries and mint.

It is a very, very luxurious parfait. 😊

Fireworks festivals are nice

Photographed on August 15, 25.
CAFE ANDON's hot sandwich set, tuna & onion.

Shirakawa Township on a family trip
When you enter the wooden gassho building, the summer heat is as cool as a lie
When I looked at the wall, I saw a gaping hole in the knot of the wood
Immediately, the photo taken by my nephew in the sixth grade was so Traditional Charm that it reminded me of the late Township of Japan somewhere

"Stamp rally around World Heritage sites in Kumamoto Prefecture!
Go around Triangle West Port, Manda Pit, Sakitsu Village, etc., collect Stamps to be completed, and get a clear file!

Implementation of the 10th anniversary of the registration of the World Cultural Heritage Site "Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution" will be held, and a Stamp Rally will be held around World Heritage sites and constituent assets in Kumamoto Prefecture.

Manda Pit and Sankaku West Port, which are constituent assets of the World Cultural Heritage Site "Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution" in Kumamoto Prefecture, and Sakitsu Village, which is a constituent asset of "Hidden Christian heritage in the Nagasaki and Amakusa regions",

And let's go around Kumamoto city and get to know the charm of Kumamoto!

Collect stamps and you will receive World Heritage limited goods. Please refer to the following for details.

Events Duration
2025 (Reiwa 7) from Saturday, July 19 to Sunday, December 28

Business hours and closed days of each facility

Manda Pit Station 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed: Mondays (or the following weekdays if it is a holiday)
Triangle West Port Urashimaya 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed: None
Sakitsu Village Guidance Center From 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. No Closed Day during the Events

Stamp installation locations (5 locations in total)
Manda Pit Station (Arao City)
Triangle West Port Urashimaya (Uki City)
Sakitsu Village Guidance Center (Amakusa City)
Kumamoto Station Shinkansen Waiting Room (Kumamoto City)
Sakuramachi Kumamoto 2nd Floor Con Course (Kumamoto City)

!!Those who complete it will receive World Heritage limited goods!
If you have collected all the stamps, please show the completed picture to the staff of the following facilities.
We will present World Heritage limited goods.

[Limited goods delivery location]

⚪︎Manda Pit Station

⚪︎JR Sankaku Station Tourist Information Center (*Different from the stamp installation location)

⚪︎Sakitsu Village Guidance Center

Participation Fee
free

Inquiries
Regional Development Department, Tourism and Cultural Exchange Division, World Heritage and Cultural Exchange Office
Phone: 0968-63-1274

Here are some recommended winter experiences.

This private tour grants special access to Japan’s largest public ranch, which closes for the winter. On this fully booked private tour, the ranch becomes a vast snowy plain and you will travel to the summit in a 4WD vehicle fitted with crawler tyres.

At the summit, you can go snowshoeing, ride snowmobiles, play in the snow, or simply do nothing at all. The tranquil private setting helps relax the body and mind and supports improved concentration and cognitive function.
Enjoy this extraordinary environment at your own pace.

For lunch, you will savor Tokachi Naita Wagyu while gazing over the Tokachi Plain.
This well-marbled Wagyu is known for its light, melt-in-your-mouth texture and refined flavor.

If you are interested, please apply via the URL below.


Here are some recommended winter experiences.

This private tour grants special access to Japan’s largest public ranch, which closes for the winter. On this fully booked private tour, the ranch becomes a vast snowy plain and you will travel to the summit in a 4WD vehicle fitted with crawler tyres.

At the summit, you can go snowshoeing, ride snowmobiles, play in the snow, or simply do nothing at all. The tranquil private setting helps relax the body and mind and supports improved concentration and cognitive function. Enjoy this extraordinary environment at your own pace.

For lunch, you will savor Tokachi Naita Wagyu while gazing over the Tokachi Plain.
This well-marbled Wagyu is known for its light, melt-in-your-mouth texture and refined flavor.

If you are interested, please apply via the URL below.

https://slow-life-hokkaido.com/tour/naitai-highland-farm-snow-safari-wagyu-lunch/

Photographed on August 15, 25.
After Prayer to Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine, I relaxed at the Starbucks Bell Ring Street store.
Chillax soda peach and peach & milk cake. 🍑

The fireworks festival in Echizen City, called “Old Takefu,” is a source of local pride. The fireworks take many shapes, and you can truly appreciate them in photos. They represent the fireworks master’s crowning achievement. Perhaps it’s the viewer’s state of mind, but impressions and preferences change with how you watch. Right now, I prefer thin, flowing trails.

Ichijo Falls in Fukui Prefecture. This is a place deep in the mountains, where you can find flowers, flowers, and cobwebs everywhere. Ichijo Falls in the middle of summer is very thin, but even so, the hydrangeas, which have become unbearable in this year's heat, have become dry and have been webbed by spiders everywhere. Nature is not only beautiful, but I don't want to lose it.

Asakura Ruins in Fukui Prefecture. This is the place just past the Kara Gate. There was a road like this. I wonder if I can peek, walk, and peek into that era.

In Fukui Prefecture, the Takefu Fireworks that used to be held in the old Takefu draw local pride every year on the same day of Obon. Although the city merged and became Echizen City, this fireworks festival remains something the people of Takefu boast about.
The fireworks reflected in the Hino River were not only beautiful but somehow wistful.

Date ◆ Cancelled due to stormy weather August 23, 2025 (Reiwa 7) * Cancelled due to stormy weather
◆Opening Ceremony: 19:15~
◆Fireworks launch time: 19:30~20:30

Location◆Futian Fishing Port Special venue

For details, please check the Iwata City Chamber of Commerce and Industry website.

◆About the Shuttle Bus◆
Mikuriya Station North Exit ~ Shuttle Bus near the venue will be operated.
For details, please check [Shuttle bus operation].

Contact◇Iwata City Chamber of Commerce and Industry (0538-36-9600)
https://sci-iwata.or.jp/2024/06/20/%e3%81%84%e3%82%8f%e3%81%9f%e5%a4%8f%e3%81%be%e3%81%a4%e3%82%8a%e8%8a%b1%e7%81%ab%e5%a4%a7%e4%bc%9a/

【Wood and Play Experience Market】
Workshop Festival to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Village
"Trees and Play Experience Market"
It was opened at the Komu Museum of Art!

Stalls gather from all over Hokkaido
It was a manufacturing events using wood and nature as ingredients.

When the museum opens at 10 o'clock, you don't have time to catch your breath
Many people came to the Events venue.

There were 6 experiences available.

Making a kaleidoscope of wood
Wooden clockmaking
Tree Nut BUG BUG Making
Making wooden brooches & keychains
Making a Wood Shaker
Making mushroom magnets.

@do.mono
@tek_toys

Put the beads of your choice
There is a figure ands looking into the finished kaleidoscope,
Walking with nuts and insects made in the mall
There is a figure shaking a wood shaker with beans.

On the clock face
In addition to numbers, decorate with many decorations.

In one corner
There was a huge outbreak of poisonous mushrooms and mushrooms packed with cuteness.

Each person has a different facial expression.
Squid animal keychains and brooches are also cute.

More than just one experience
There were many people who walked around the various booths, which made me happy 😆

Including the reception staff
A day where 🏋️🏋️🏋️ people who are skilled in tree cultivation and wood manufacturing gather

Thanks to the staff who watched over the participants and supported them.
It was ✨ a wonderful time

Thank you very much!!!

#Nishiokoppe Village
#Hokkaido
#Komu Museum of Art
#Summer
#Trees and Play Experience Market
#Experience
#Workshop
#Woodworking
#Manufacturing
#Woody Summer School
#August 2

We would like to introduce our recommended agricultural experience.

This tour lets you discover the appeal of our signature products: beans and fresh vegetables.

You will visit a farm that independently cultivates a variety of beans, including rare types. While walking through fields normally closed to the public, you will hear about the careful methods used to grow beans and take part in everyday farm work.
You will also create an original spice blend that pairs well with beans, and prepare onigiri, an essential part of Japanese food culture, for lunch.

In the afternoon, you will visit a vegetable farm and experience crops from a farmer’s perspective.
In the evening, you will assemble hamburgers using a range of vegetables and compare the flavors of fried potatoes made from different potato varieties, a signature local product. Enjoy the distinctive tastes of each potato.

For more details, please visit the URL below.


We would like to introduce our recommended agricultural experience.

This tour allows you to learn about the appeal of our representative products, “beans” and “fresh vegetables.”

You will visit a farm that grows various beans, including rare varieties, on its own. While strolling through fields you normally cannot enter, you will hear stories about the careful cultivation of beans and try the day-to-day fieldwork the farmers do.
You will make an original spice mix that pairs with beans and, for lunch, make onigiri, a staple of Japanese food culture.

In the afternoon, you will visit a vegetable farm and engage with crops from the farmer’s viewpoint.
In the evening, you will make hamburgers combining various vegetables and taste-test fried potatoes made from different potato varieties, a representative product of the region. Enjoy the differences in potato flavor.

For details, please see the URL below.

https://slow-life-hokkaido.com/tour/tokachi-beans-and-vegetable-farms-gastronomy-tour/

At the summer festival in Obihiro City
Fireworks festival and Bon Dancing every year
Various events are held.
Street performances are one of them.

Performer SYO!'s
Performance.

When Obon is over, Hokkaido
It becomes autumn-like all at once.

Photographed on August 15, 25.
It is a wind chime at the edge of Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine.
The wind chimes on the veranda had changed to the color of love.

This summer's fireworks festival was insanely good to feel the summer!

Today, the blue sky spreads out in Otofuke 🔆 from the morning
The balloon was going up, and I couldn't help but look at it ...!
On a day like this, you can surely see the Hidaka Mountains clearly and the view should be 👀🗻 spectacular

This is a photo of when I went to the wind chime temple in Uji. The Scene with beautiful wind chime such as blue and red are lined up in an orderly manner is also beautiful, but when the wind blows and the wind chime illuminated by the sun, it is beautiful and I felt cool. In addition, there are teru teru bozu and sunflower wind chimes that you won't notice unless you look closely, so you can enjoy it both visually and audibly!

This is a photo of when I went to the wind chime temple in Uji. The Scene with beautiful wind chime such as blue and red are lined up in an orderly manner is also beautiful, but when the wind blows and the wind chime illuminated by the sun, it is beautiful and I felt cool. In addition, there are teru teru bozu and sunflower wind chimes that you won't notice unless you look closely, so you can enjoy it both visually and audibly!

Here are some recommended eco-friendly tours.

This is a two-day, one-night trip where you can experience organic farming that is gentle on the environment and your body.

You will visit wine producers and farmers who practise organic farming, and see their farms where they grow their produce with care and attention, relying on the power of nature without using any chemical fertilisers or pesticides.

You will enjoy tasting different organic wines and lunch and dinner made with plenty of vegetables, and experience the difference in flavour.
Accommodation is in ‘glamping,’ a unique outdoor experience in Tokachi.

The next day, you will create eco-friendly upcycled products using discarded vegetable peels and participate in traditional Japanese paper-making.

This organic experience offers a valuable opportunity to reflect on the environment and health. We aim for participants to connect with producers they wouldn't normally meet, learn about the care and thought behind the ingredients, and savour the distinctive flavours of these foods.
Through this experience, we hope participants will gain new insights and values, leading to a healthier and more fulfilling lifestyle.

Those interested may apply via the URL below.

We introduce a selection of eco-friendly tours.

This is a one-night, two-day trip where you can experience organic cultivation that is gentle on both the environment and the body.
You will visit wine and agricultural producers who practise organic farming, touring farms where they cultivate with dedication and care, relying on nature without any chemical fertilisers or pesticides. You will sample organic wines, enjoy lunch and dinner abundant in vegetables, and savour the difference in taste.
Accommodation is glamping, a signature outdoor experience in Tokachi. The next day you will make eco-conscious upcycled products, using discarded vegetable peels, and take part in traditional Japanese papermaking.

This organic experience provides a great chance to reconsider the environment and health. We hope participants meet producers they would not normally encounter, learn about the passion behind the ingredients, and taste thoughtfully produced food. Through the experience, participants can gain new discoveries and values that lead to a healthier, richer life.

If you are interested, please apply via the URL below.

https://slow-life-hokkaido.com/tour/tokachi-organic-farms-and-glamping-premium-tour/