Bungo Ono City in Oita Prefecture, Kyushu. On January 3, 2025, the Ontake Kagura New Year performance took place at the Kagura Kaikan in Kiyokawamachi, Bungo Ono City. Many visitors came that day and enjoyed the Kagura dances.✨ The Ontake Kagura performed with impressive, vigorous dances. Many guests were captivated. ■■■ What is Ontake Kagura The Ontake Kagura passed down in Kiyokawamachi is said to have begun in 1449, at the same time as the founding of Ontake Shrine. It has been handed down for a long time, and Kagura in this tradition is performed in Oono, Naoiri, Ken Nan, and as far as the Aso region. In 2007 it was designated a National Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property. ■■■ Access to central Bungo Ono City ■■■ About 3 hours by car from JR Hakata Station, Fukuoka Prefecture About 2 hours by car from JR Kumamoto Station, Kumamoto Prefecture About 1 hour 20 minutes by car from JR Beppu Station, Oita Prefecture About 1 hour 20 minutes by car from JR Yufuin Station, Oita Prefecture ■■■■■■■■■■■■ On Instagram we share recommended sightseeing, gourmet spots, and accommodations in Bungo Ono City⬇ Bungo Ono City Tourism Association @satonotabiii We would be happy if you follow us. You can find the Bungo Ono City Tourism Association website linked from our profile. ■■■■■■■■■■■■

🍷 Wine Party 🍷 Held in 😁 the first wine party to commemorate the occasion This time, we also have 🎍 a New Year's party We are grateful 🙏 for the participation of many people If it's so much fun, I'd ✨ like to Held in it every month Held in to 🥂 the next event 🌼 Advantageous Campaigns 🌼 It's time ✨ to start something new Now, to the diver of your dreams! 🉐57,250 yen →39,000 yen Refer-a-Friend Campaign ✌️ Let's dive together! 🉐 5,000 yen discount for everyone Experience Diving Campaign 🌻 In the most beautiful sea of the year! 🉐19,800→14,300 yen

2025 🎍 Hatsushima Tour✨ How are you spending Squid in the new year? Today I'm going diving on Hatsushima ~ 🤿 Enjoy 🐠 Hatsushima, which is almost fully booked Decorate ema in the water! I've had 💡 some special experiences We'd love to join you! !️ 🌼 Advantageous Campaigns 🌼 It's time ✨ to start something new Now, to the diver of your dreams! 🉐57,250 yen →39,000 yen Refer-a-Friend Campaign ✌️ Let's dive together! 🉐 5,000 yen discount for everyone Experience Diving Campaign 🌻 In the most beautiful sea of the year! 🉐19,800→14,300 yen

Today, I thought it was free, so I took a walk in Kawagoe, but it was quite crowded. This is the Ai sea bream lottery of Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine.

The Way of the Brush Along with the martial arts, many other arts flourished, including calligraphy, tea ceremony, tea bowls, poetry, incense, and Noh drama, and a samurai needed to have knowledge of both the sword and the brush in order to be seen as a cultured gentleman. #kangi #calligraphy #kimono #osakacastle

Happy New Year everyone! Best regards for your visit to Noboribetsu Bear Park again this year. 🎍🐻🎍 How will you spend your New Year's Day this year? The bears' New Year is going 🐻💤 to be a sleeping New Year

The highway bus "Snow Story" connecting Shiga Highlands and Tokyo Station started operation on 🚍 December 20 Independent 3-row Reclining seats 🐑💤 in the Car for a good night's sleep Shiga Highlands ~ Tokyo Station is 8,000 yen, Yudanaka Station ~ Tokyo Station is 7,000 yen, and reservations are limited to "Highway Bus Net" operated by JR Bus. The operation period is from December 20, 2024 (Friday) ~ March 16, 2025 (Sunday), depending on 🐒 the operation date calendar For details, please visit the Nagano Electric Railway website.

Happy New Year! Thank you for your continued support this year.

Did you know that you can reserve a seat on the Nagano Electric Railway Limited Express Yukemuri? 🚃 Enjoy your trip safely and securely with 🌏 plenty of time For inquiries, please contact Nagano Electric Railway Customer Support Center: 📞026-248-6000

Ryuo's free shuttle bus ⇔ Yudanaka Station will operate 🚍 from Saturday, December 21, 2024 The bus stop is in front 🚌❄🏂🎿❄ of the Yudanaka Station Information Center

In Navitime Japan Co., Ltd.'s "Analysis Results of Popular Hot Spring Destinations Visited by Foreign Tourists to Japan" released last month, Yamanouchi Town Yudanaka Shibu Hot Spring Village ranked second in the "Top 5 Popular Hot Spring Destinations by Market for Foreign Tourists Visiting Japan: Europe and Rice Australia"! !️🐒 In addition, "Hot Spring Resorts where many tourists from Australia are staying" in the "Top 5 Ranking of Foreign Tourists Visiting Japan by Country" was also ranked second 🐨 Yamanouchi Town is popular with Sightseeing spots from all over the world, including Hot spring ♨️, ski slopes, ⛷ Jigokudani Yaen-koen 🐵, and more! !️ We look 🙇 ♀️🙈forward to seeing you there.✨️

The Tourism Bureau's original goods are now 🥳👏 on sale We did design production + product development ✨️ with the four themes of Hot Spring, Skiing, Agricultural Products, and Monkeys that Yamanouchi Town is proud of The concept is "Yamanouchi Retro" 🕰🎥🎞 It's a nostalgic but cute design with a retro theme! In addition to long sleeves and washcloths, there are also magnets, stickers, sacoche and Ballpoint pens! I would be very happy 🥰 if many people could pick it up for everyday wear and memories of your trip It is only sold at the Yamanouchi Information Center opposite Yudanaka Station!

New Year Greetings & Winter Mount Oyama 2025 The Isehara City Tourism Association officially launched today. We look forward to your continued support this year. Winter Mount Oyama ✨ Saturdays, Sundays and national holidays from January 11 to January 26, 2025 ✨ This winter, for seven days only, the Oyama Cable Car line will be illuminated and operate night services with views until 7:00 PM. On Sunday, January 12, the Oyama Sky Lantern® will be launched from Oyama Afuri Shrine Lower Shrine at 4:30 PM, and popular characters Kururin, Kanamin, and Mokoron will appear on rotating weekends (Saturdays, Sundays and holidays). The view from Oyama Afuri Shrine Lower Shrine was awarded two stars in the Michelin Green Guide Japan. The nightscape seen through the clear winter air is indescribably beautiful and captivating. Please take this opportunity to join the many events. ※If you plan to aim for the summit of Mount Oyama, start early to allow plenty of time. The public restroom at the summit may be temporarily unavailable due to freezing, so please use restrooms in advance. *Photo: New Year’s sunrise from Oyama Afuri Shrine Lower Shrine on New Year’s Day Access: From Odakyu Line Isehara Station, North Exit, Bus Stop No. 4 Take the ‘for Oyama Cable Car’ bus for about 30 minutes Get off at the final stop and walk 15 minutes along Koma Sando to the cable car station

Happy New Year🎍 Thank you all for 🙇 ♀️ your continued support this year This is Nagashima Spa Land in Mie Prefecture. Held in New Year's Eve fireworks every year, and you can play until 3 a.m. only on New Year's Day. Be sure to 🤤 visit on New Year's Eve this year

Photographed on January 3, 25. It is a one-year cheap sea bream lottery of Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine. New Year's Day is full of colors.

Photographed on January 3, 25. It is a one-year cheap sea bream lottery of Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine.

Snow Fairy Did you know that there is a snow fairy in Hokkaido? Its name is "Shimaenaga" Originally, this wild bird called Enaga resembled a long-handled ladle in appearance. The chief of the handle (e) → named Enaga In fact, there are long-tailed moths in Honshu, but this pure white subspecies of long-tailed moth only lives in Hokkaido That's why Hokkaido is called Shima. The long-tailed moth, which lives only in Shima→ was named Shimaenaga It is only called the snow fairy, and you will see it from the time when the leaves fall and the snow begins to fall For that reason, it is also called a bird that signals snow

Snow-dusted city with the Northern Alps beyond the skyline🏔 From the end of the year through New Year’s Day, snow fell and cleared repeatedly❄️ In Omachi, not only the mountains but the city streets wore a dusting of snow⛄️ This afternoon the clouds over the Northern Alps cleared, so I went to Omachi Park to take photos🏔 Snow is forecast again starting tomorrow; please take care with footing on cold mornings and evenings when you visit😌 Discover Omachi tourism🔽🔽🔽 https://kanko-omachi.gr.jp//

Photographed on January 4, 25. We asked LEC COFFEE. Lemonade and Sweet Potato Mont Blanc Pudding. The pudding is firm, topped with Sweet Potato and Mont Blanc, and is delicious. We look forward to working with you in 2025. 😊

Happy New Year. NPO Tsubetsu Tourism Association began its first working day of the year today. We look forward to your continued support this year. Snow fell and accumulated in Tsubetsu over the New Year holidays, requiring snowplows to operate. Although this season has less snow than usual, it has felt like a proper winter. The Ice Candle Festival is scheduled for February 1, so I secretly hope enough snow will fall before then to prepare for the event ❄️ We will do our utmost to promote Tsubetsu again this year! Thank you again for your support!

At Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine, I found a fortune teller for a beckoning cat.

January 4th — Updated the blooming report for the 59th Daffodil Festival! Overall, the fields remain about 30% in bloom, but the slope side has started to flower🎵 https://www.shimoda-city.info/post/20250104...

Happy New Year! This year, too, we will share and publish tourism information about Nagiso town, so we appreciate your continued support ✨ Today, New Year smoke signals were raised across many parts of Kiso. A smoke signal, or noroshi, is smoke produced by burning firewood or gunpowder and raised high; long ago it served as a signal or landmark during wartime or emergencies. In other words, noroshi was a means of communication. The New Year noroshi event held every January 4 in Kiso began in 2007 at the call of the nonprofit organization Tsumago Ai Suru Kai to strengthen solidarity across the Kiso Valley and energize the region. The photos show the scene at the site of Tsumago Castle in Nagiso town, where leaves of Kiso’s five treasured trees—hinoki cypress and koyamaki—are burned to create the smoke 🌲 This year, too, the noroshi rose vigorously under clear skies. May 2025 be a year filled with smiles and many blessings... 🐍✨

Happy New Year. I look forward to your continued support this year.

Spring 🎍 2025 Happy New Year! I hope everyone will be even more excited this year. We will continue to try new things! See you again with a smile! From Hokule'a Shonan Staff PS: Secretly snapped at Izu Marine Park (IOP) on 📸 New Year's Day The frogfish is too ❤️ cute 🌼 Advantageous Campaigns 🌼 It's time ✨ to start something new Now, to the diver of your dreams! 🉐57,250 yen →39,000 yen Refer-a-Friend Campaign ✌️ Let's dive together! 🉐 5,000 yen discount for everyone Experience Diving Campaign 🌻 In the most beautiful sea of the year! 🉐19,800→14,300 yen

Today, I took a walk in Kawagoe before work. It was crowded everywhere. This is Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine.

Roadside Station Iwanai Happy New Year 🐍 We look forward to your continued support this year Roadside Station Iwanai is open as usual from today. We look forward to welcoming everyone 😆

This is the sea torii gate of Shirahama Shrine in Izu. It’s a popular spot at any time, but especially during New Year many people came to pay their respects ⛩️

Happy New Year. Warm New Year greetings from Tsukigase Plum Valley. Tsukigase Plum Valley lets you take in at a glance the plum blossoms and the gorge, with the plum seen as the harbinger of spring. Designated a Place of Scenic Beauty in 2020 and now marking 100 years, the Tsukigase Tourism Association, together with local residents, works to preserve this wonderful plum gorge so everyone can enjoy it. The “Tsukigase Plum Valley Plum Festival,” starting on February 9, opens with the 40th Tsukigase Plum Valley Early Spring Marathon on its first day and runs through a variety of events up to the Spring Banquet on March 23, with preparations underway to welcome everyone. We ask that you visit Tsukigase Plum Valley, which we have spent a year preparing, and offer this as our New Year greeting. Noriaki Ida, President, Tsukigase Tourism Association

Photographed 1/1/25. This is Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine.