❄️ "Winter Gokase 2025" Voting Now Open ❄️【Until Sunday, March 16, 2025!】

Thank you all for entering "Winter Gokase 2025"!

We have conducted a careful first-round selection by the tourism association staff and chosen ten entries from all submissions.🙏✨

From these ten entries, we will ask everyone to vote to decide the prize winners.🤩👏

Among those who vote, ten people will be randomly selected to receive specialty products from Gokase Town as a gift.🎁💫 We appreciate your participation.🙇‍♀️

How to vote is explained below.💡
[Voting period: Until Sunday, March 16, 2025]
⚠️ Voting is limited to one method per person and one vote per account or individual.

<To vote via Instagram>
https://www.instagram.com/gokase_kanko/
・Follow the Gokase Tourism Association Instagram account.
・From the posts marked with the hashtag "#Winter Gokase 2025 Vote," choose one of the ten featured entries and comment the photo number in that post's comment section.✍
⚠️ If you are not following the account, message exchanges may be unreliable and you will be excluded from the gift drawing. Please be aware.

<To vote via Facebook>
https://www.facebook.com/gokase.kanko/?locale=ja_JP
・Choose one of the ten featured entries in this post and comment the photo number.
・Voting is limited to one vote per account.
⚠️ If you win the gift drawing, we will contact you via Facebook Messenger. If there is no reply within two weeks, the prize will be forfeited.

<To vote via the website>
・Go to the "Winter Gokase 2025 Vote" page from the Gokase Tourism Association website's news topics (https://www.town.gokase.miyazaki.jp/kanko/ivent/1994.html）
・Click the URL on the "Winter Gokase 2025 Vote" page to open the voting form.
・Enter your email address.
・Choose one of the ten entries, check the box for that entry, and submit your response.
⚠️ If you do not enter an email address, you will be excluded from the gift drawing.

Please be sure to view the original posts by the applicants before voting.🤗

1. @yamabico_san (photo 2)
2. @gokase_entertainment (photo 3)
3. @photo_ay_umi (photo 4)
4. @mgm_1228 (photo 5)
5. @eco9syu_sekiryo (photo 6)
6. @goto0619 (photo 7)
7. @fowafuwarin5 (photo 8)
8. @thusandleavis (photo 9)
9. @mas8787a (photo 10)
10. @photo_ay_umi (photo 11)

We look forward to receiving many votes from everyone 🥰

[❄️ Introducing photos submitted to Winter Gokase 2025 — Final installment ❄️]

The Gokase Tourism Association held the “#Winter Gokase 2025” photo event on its Instagram account through February 28.

This is the final showcase of the entries we received.🥹✨

@fowafuwarin5
@mas8787a
@mgm_1228
(in no particular order)

Making its long-awaited debut is Unoko Falls✨ These lovely photos capture the ski area where snow still lingers and the surrounding great outdoors.👏

Thank you all for so many submissions.😭

It was a harsh winter, but many of the winter photos felt warm and heartening.😊☀️

Photographed on March 8, 25.
LEC COFFEE's black latte and tiramisu.

View from a commercial facilities in Sakyo Ward, Kyoto City.

Godaigo's "MONKEY MAJIK" streamed into my brain.

Sunrise and Enoshima

Photographed on March 8, 25.
This is LEC COFFEE's black latte.
It's a stunning latte art.
I like it. 😊

Choukokuji Temple during the fresh greenery season. Looking at the Buddha statue that emerges in the green light reflected in the hall is refreshing.

Busan Shrine dyed in the color of snow

This is Busan Shrine in Yorii, Saitama Prefecture.
It is dyed in a snowy landscape and becomes 😊 a mysterious space

-Samurai Sword Trial Cutting
You will learn how to use a sword and become aware of your self-respect and the responsibility of carrying a deadly weapon. At that time, you will be allowed to wear a serious sword.
You will try your hand at sword cutting with a samurai sword. Experience the best cutting edge in the world.

#samuraisword #bushido

I took a picture of Nagasaki-kunchi held in Nagasaki City at a venue called Ryokusho. I took this photo because I wanted to be able to feel the power I felt with my eyes in the photo.

Breather Save Spot
Save Spot in the Central Tokyo that can be seen from Shibuya, don't you 🍀 wonder what lies ahead* ゚

Jewel night view of Tokyo
The night view of Tokyo seen from Shibuya Suka Squid, this city, which is always diverse and dazzling, will shine ✨ even brighter in the future

Photographed on March 8, 25.
It is Hanachozu of Kawagoe Hachimangu Shrine.
I have a cold, and I am in bed.
It's the change of seasons, so please take care of your body. 🤒

The only souvenir that can make you feel "Japanese".

Calligraphy has a delicate sense of beauty, and the subtle changes in fine lines, dots and shading enhance its beauty.
There is also an aesthetic sense of stillness, and it is important to keep the mind quiet and focused when writing. It is also essentially about basic manners, such as sitting upright, keeping a straight back and holding the brush upright. The fan, which is still familiar to Japanese people as a tool that appears at milestones in life, and calligraphy on hanging scrolls, which are traditional Japanese works of art, are very popular among foreigners, as they are decorated in an appropriate manner and can be displayed in tokonoma (alcove) and other places.
#kakejiku #kanji #wabisabi #snuvenir

Tokyo Tower and Kawazu cherry blossoms 📸

This is the Kawazu cherry blossoms taken from the front of Azabudai Hills in Tokyo.

Tokyo is in Best time to visit.
It is crowded with many foreigners.

Samurai Calligraphy

Resignation is the last character to be written in this world in preparation for death.
Calligraphy is a beautiful part of Japanese culture, but before you experience it, imagine it. Before you experience it, imagine that you are about to say goodbye to this world.
You will be dressed in kimono or hakama like a samurai.
#kanji #Calligraphy#performance

This is Momo Minamoto Township!

It was started by the people of the Kine district to liven up the area, and now as many as 2,000 weeping peaches are blooming. In the center, a pond and a weeping peach is projected, and those who visit it Gari a voice of admiration. The best time to visit seems to be mid-April next year.

Ena City, Gifu Prefecture "Kineshi Weeping Momoen"
*Last year's photo

Photographed on March 8, 25.
It is Hanachozu of Kawagoe Hachimangu Shrine.

Zen Etiquette and Manners

Calligraphy has a delicate sense of beauty, and the subtle changes in fine lines, dots, and shading enhance its beauty.
There is also an aesthetic sense of stillness, and it is important to keep one's mind quiet and focused when writing. In addition, it is essentially important to perform basic manners, such as sitting upright, keeping the back straight, and holding the brush upright.
#Calligraphy #teaceremony #Zen

Photographed on March 8, 25.
It is Hanachozu of Kawagoe Hachimangu Shrine.

-Samurai Calligraphy Experience
When a samurai foresees his death, he looks back on his life so far and writes his last characters in this world with a brush.
Each kanji character has its own meaning, so please learn what meaning the last character left behind has.
#Calligraphy #kanji #kimono

【Trial Slashing】
Try your hand at sword cutting with a real Japanese sword!
Experience the world's best cutting performance.

This time, you will try cutting a rolled straw

#samuraisword #katana #teaceremony

Today at breakfast, I visited Mr. 168.
It is a soy milk and onion egg sandwich. It's freshly made.
All of the Taiwanese breakfasts look delicious, so I get lost every time. 😊

The Kawazu cherry blossoms in Kawazu Town were 🌸 in full bloom

This is a row of Kawazu cherry blossoms that are in Best time to visit in Kawazu Town, Shizuoka Prefecture.
Please 😊 visit to see the 4km long Kawazu cherry blossoms

Photographed on March 8, 25.
It is a weeping Ume plum from Naritayama Kawagoe Betsuin.
It is in full bloom. 🌸

Photographed on March 8, 25.
This is Hanachozu of Chuin.

Original scenery of Japan
Aso's crossing along the Okuaizu-Tadami River
River fog streams thinly on the surface of the river, and mountains approach the village behind the rice fields, and fog rises
Japan's Farming villages continue to protect small rice paddies inherited from their ancestors
How many more years can we see?

Photographed on March 8, 25.
It is the red Ume Plum of the Middle Hospital.

Photographed 3/1/25.
It is Hanachozu of Kawagoe Hachimangu Shrine.

Exploring Japan goes beyond just stunning landscapes; it’s a journey steeped in rich traditions. Experiencing traditional Japanese style tea ceremony and making Wagashi with friends in Kimono or Yukata is just a wonderful experience which I will remember my whole life. This is the other side of cool Japan beyond the Natural beauty and mouth watering food. We enjoyed it in Asakusa area of Tokyo.