🌸"Gokase Hanami 2025" Voting Now Open🌸【Until Friday, June 6, 2025!】

Thank you all for entering "Gokase Hanami 2025"!
We held a strict first-round screening by the tourism association staff and selected 12 entries from all submissions🙏✨

From these 12 entries, we would like you to vote to decide the final winners🤩👏

Among those who vote, 10 people will be chosen by lottery to receive local specialties from Gokasecho as a gift🎁💫 We appreciate your participation🙇‍♀️

Here is how to vote💡

【Voting period: Until Friday, June 6, 2025】
⚠️You may vote by only one of the methods below, one time per account or one time per person.

<If voting via Google Form>
・Go to the "voting form" using the URL below
https://forms.gle/uBpw7C7xFDsDKBo2A
・Enter your email address (required). You may optionally provide your name.
・Choose one of the 12 entries, check the box for that entry, and submit your response.
⚠️No login is required, but an email address is mandatory, so please note this in advance.

<If voting via Instagram>
・Follow the Gokase Tourism Association Instagram account.
https://www.instagram.com/gokase_kanko/
・From the post with the hashtag #Gokase Hanami 2025 Voting, choose one of the 12 featured entries and send the photo number by direct message or comment✍
⚠️If you do not follow our account, message exchange may be unreliable and you will be excluded from the gift lottery. Please be aware.

<If voting at a polling location>
・Vote at polling stations set up at Gokasecho Town Hall, Gokase Onsen Mori no Yado Kijiya, or the mobile vendor "Gokase Marche" truck.
・Choose one of the 12 entries, write the entry number, your name, and your email address on the voting slip, and place it in the voting envelope.

Additionally, a polling station will be set up at Gokase Secondary Education School in collaboration with the Gokase Sakura Project, and students will also be participating in voting💪✨

⚠️If your email address is missing or illegible due to poor handwriting, you will be excluded from the gift lottery. Please understand.

Please be sure to view the original posts by the entrants before you vote🤗

1 @sokoatari.urouro (photo 1)
2 @fowafuwarin5 (photo 2)
3 @ 920cherry71 (photo 3)
4 @_yuta610 (photo 4)
5 @1230fuukeinoturishi (photo 5)
6 @8215dr72 (photo 6)
7 @code_name_cross_fire (photo 7)
8 @sakai_0808 (photo 8)
9 @reoron001219 (photo 9)
10 @hisabou1958 (photo 10)
11 @landscape133_22 (photo 11)
12 @omilove.1203 (photo 12)

We look forward to receiving many votes from everyone🥰

Today, I had a morning activity.
It is milk tea with bread and espresso.

It is a piece that expresses Tokyo Station, the window in Japan, as if it were an overseas station. When I don't have anything to shoot, I often head to Tokyo Station to take pictures. The person in the middle looked like the hero of the stage in the Spot. Yesterday, I stopped by after going to the Tokyo International Forum and took a picture

I live in Sumida Ward, and I usually go back and forth between Sumida Ward and Koto Ward by Car. This bridge is just Located in on its borders. I have taken many photos of the Sky Tree in the past, but this was the first time I had encountered such a fantastic sunset. When I looked up at the sky that evening, the whole area was dyed orange, and the Sky Tree seemed to be enveloped in soft light. At that moment, my heart was racing, and I involuntarily stopped the car and released the shutter. It was a happy moment when I was able to record a chance encounter.

"Shiroi Road, Green Line"
　Where did you come from and where are you going?
　As I followed the green line with my eyes, I began to travel to my heart.
　

It is a view that can only be seen before the rice is planted.

Photographed 5/19/25.
CAFE ANDON's Lemon and Poppy Seed Shortcake. 🍋

This photo was taken at Ebie Seaside Park in Toyama Prefecture.
The throwing of firefly Squid, which occurs when strict conditions are met from March to May, is rare in the world, and because it glows brightly, firefly Squid is often photographed. I took this photo with an awareness of modern [people] who receive the blessings of Nature.
It is a piece that pressed the shutter while feeling the Nature and culture that have been passed down from generation to generation.

Taken around 4:30 in the morning.
The sky gradually begins to brighten, firefly squid gradually become unharvestable, and it is the time slot / time of day when the tide air streams quietly.

Congratulations!

Photographed 5/19/25.
CAFE ANDON's Squid was Ume Plum Specification. ☂️

One of the sunsets seen from the sea candle in Enoshima.
The air was clear and there were few clouds, so I was able to take a very beautiful sunset.
The golden ocean you see here is truly Beautiful..
No matter when you come, it is your favorite Spot where you can see the beautiful scenery.

"White clover that I casually found"
When I was looking at the white clover blooming in the school garden, I suddenly wanted to take a picture, so I took this photo.

"A bamboo bush that expresses light and dark"
I was struck by the wonderful fusion of bamboo and wood in Japan and captured it in the photo.

Ginza

Photographed 5/18/25.
LEC COFFEE's Cold Yellowtail Cream and Kawagoe Matcha Basque Cheesecake.
Both are recommended. 😊

I happened to visit Chichibu
A Carp streamer Festival was being held near Muko Hot spring.
The colorful Carp streamers were swimming gracefully and it was very beautiful.

[Kawayu Onsen Illustration Exhibition and “KawaCos” Held Together on June 7 and 8!]

A perfect chance to enjoy subculture in Kawayu Onsen, Teshikaga, amid fresh green scenery!
On June 7 and 2025 and June 8, 2025, the Kawayu Onsen Illustration Exhibition “Kawayu＋i Exhibition” and the cosplay event “KawaCos” will take place simultaneously.

The illustration exhibition features a record 30 creators from Hokkaido and beyond, showcasing a variety of illustrations full of love for Kawayu and Teshikaga. Admission is free, and the venue will distribute a special “Bath Tour Passport” that offers half-price day-trip baths for adults at four member ryokan of the Kawayu Onsen Ryokan Association, while the public bath “Yukichi” in Kawayu will be available at Teshikaga resident rates.


Meanwhile, at KawaCos, cosplayers can enjoy shooting around the hot spring town and in the great outdoors of Akan–Mashu National Park, including Mt. Iou, Lake Mashu, and Lake Kussharo. This year, for the first time, there will also be an itasha (decorated car) display and a small parade through the hot spring town.

Please stop by and join us!!



・Kawayu Onsen Illustration Exhibition “Kawayu＋i Exhibition” Third Edition
・Date and Time: Saturday, June 7, 2025 and Sunday, June 8, 2025, 10:00 AM–5:00 PM (open until 9:00 PM on June 7 only)
・Venue: Onyado Kinkiyu, 2nd floor (former restaurant), 1-5-10 Kawayu Onsen, Teshikaga, Kawakami District
・Organizer: Kawayui Exhibition Executive Committee
・Supported by: Kawayu Onsen Ryokan Association
・Cooperation: East Hokkaido Illustration Project


For the latest on the Kawayu Onsen Illustration Exhibition, please see the official Kawayu Onsen Ryokan Association X account.
Hokkaido Kawayu Onsen (Illustration exhibition on June 7 and 8) (@kawayuonseniine) / X


For the latest on KawaCos, please see the official KawaCos X account.
Official KawaCos Management (@kawayu_cos) / X

Photographed 5/18/25.
After Prayer to Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine, we visited LEC COFFEE. Kawagoe Matcha Basque Cheesecake.
It was so delicious that I would like to visit again. 😊

The last day of the Asakusa Sanja Festival. I took a picture of the Mikoshi of the first shrine after leaving the shrine. I was almost crushed by the heat and pressure of the amazing people. The excitement of shouts and the sound of Festival chorus is a testament to Japan people.

Mount Fuji, a symbol of Japan, in a historic tea plantation.
The starry sky was also wonderful.

Today was the Ennichi of Kawagoe Kumano Shrine Precincts and Kawagoe Senarai Benten Itsukushima Shrine. There was a dedication.

Photographed on May 15, 25.
After work, I took a walk around Shinjuku.
It was my first time in Tokyo in a yellowtail.
Soy latte and blueberry rare cheesecake. 🫐

Photographed on May 15, 25.
Prayer at Takanawa Shrine in Shinagawa.

The hydrangeas blooming in the tea plantation in the sky were wonderful.

Ibigawa, Gifu Prefecture

2024/7 gifu
Shot on iPHONE 11 PRO

This is one of the dark groove waterfalls near Yoro Valley in Chiba Prefecture, which I visited last fall. It was before winter and there wasn't much greenery, so I'd like to shoot again in the summer next time. The Hot spring on the premises was the best.

This is one photo taken at Ashikaga Flower Park. In the evening, when the sun was about to set a little, I took a picture of the white wisteria flower in front of the pond as the theme, and I felt that the balance between the red and white colors of the Japanese maple tree on the left was beautiful. There were so many people that it was very difficult to shoot with as few people as possible.

The Torii (shrine gate) gate with light shining through the blue autumn leaves was very mysterious

Participate in the contest for the first time.