The delicious Japan of Water can be drunk at once even in the summer if you Spring Water from the mountains (Spring Water "Kinmei Water" of Mt. Iou, Toyama Prefecture)!

Photographed on August 9, 25.
It is Hanachozu of Kawagoe Hachimangu Shrine. 🌻

Wild bird paradise in Gyotoku, Ichikawa City, Chiba Prefecture
In the forest in Tokyo's commuter town Gyotoku
Summer in Japan is all about cicadas, and their shells, "sky cicadas"
It's been a hot day, so I tried to take a picture a little cooler

Photographed on August 9, 25.
It is Hanachozu of Kawagoe Hachimangu Shrine. 🌻

Lake ✨ Utonai on a sunny and windy day in August
Please take a look at the superb view from the Lake Utonai observation facilities!
(Image courtesy of Lake Utonai at Roadside Station)

Photographed on August 9, 25.
It is Hanachozu of Kawagoe Hachimangu Shrine.

The sea is good, but the mountains are also recommended!
Minami-Echizen Town has not only the sea but also rivers and waterfalls☆

Even at this time of year, the water in the river is very cool and pleasant ♪
Please refresh yourself while feeling the negative ions.

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!

🎆 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
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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

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🌳 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!

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

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.

When I went to Ichijo Falls in Fukui Prefecture, I saw summer hydrangeas. In Japan, where summer began early, the hydrangeas, which had been beautiful, were turned into carakaras and ephemeral appearances.

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.

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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!!!

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#August 2

We would like to introduce our recommended agricultural experience.

This tour allows you to discover the appeal of our representative products, beans and fresh vegetables.

You will visit a farm that grows a variety of beans, including rare varieties. While strolling through fields that are not normally accessible to the public, you will learn about the careful cultivation of beans and experience the daily work of farming.
You will also make original spices that go well with beans and prepare onigiri, an essential part of Japanese food culture, for lunch.

In the afternoon, you will visit a farm that grows vegetables and gain insight into crops from the farmer's perspective.
In the evening, you will create hamburgers using a variety of vegetables and compare the flavours of fried potatoes made from different potato varieties, which are a representative product of the region. Enjoy the distinct tastes of the potatoes.

For more details, please visit the URL below.

Here are some recommended farming experiences.

This is a tour where you can learn about the charm of Representative products "beans" and "Fresh vegetables".

We Visit farmers who Cultivation a variety of beans, including rare beans, on their own. While strolling through fields that are not usually accessible, we will talk about the beans that are carefully grown and experience the field work that we usually do.
Original spices that go well with beans and for lunch, we make onigiri, which is an indispensable part of Japan's food culture.

In the afternoon, you will visit a farmer who grows vegetables and touch the crops from a farmer's perspective.
In the evening, we make Hamburger by combining various vegetables, and we also compare potatoes, which are a Representative product, by variety of french fries. Let's enjoy the difference in taste of potatoes.

For details, please see the following URL.

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!

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!

【👒 Summer Gokase 2025 Application Photo Introduction (1)👒】

Here are the application photos posted on the "#Summer Gokase 2025" currently being held in on the Instagram Account of the Gokase Tourism Association!

Dear @goto0619,
Dear @niidome2110,
Dear @sakai_0808,

Thank you for 😆✨ posting
We are still looking for works!

<How to apply> (Application period ~ 9/15)
Follow the Gokase Tourism Association's Instagram (@gokase_kanko) and post 📸 it with the hashtags "#Summer Gokase 2025" and "#Gokase"
We look 🙇 ♀️✨ forward to receiving your application

Photographed on August 15, 25.
It is a kazaguruma in front of the Otorii Gate of Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine.
I took it around 7 o'clock in the morning.