The beautiful Nature landscape of the Aso Mountains Unfolds, and it is a mountain towns with a population of about 3,000 people (as of June 2024) with a high elevation overall.
Traditional agriculture is thriving, and in addition to delicious Rice and vegetables, "Gokase Wine" made from 100% Gokase grapes is also popular.
In winter Japan the southernmost natural snow ski resort offers a spectacular panoramic view of the Aso Mountains seen from and Slope.
We look forward to seeing you in Gokase Towns!
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🌸 Voting for "Gokase Hanami 2025" is now being 🌸 accepted [until June 6, 2025 (Friday)!] 】
Thank you all for applying for "Gokase Hanami 2025"!
Regrettably, the staff of the Tourism Association conducted a strict first selection and selected 12 works 🙏✨ from all the entries
From these 12 works, we would like to 🤩👏 decide the winners by voting from everyone
From those who voted, 10 people will be selected by lottery to receive "Specialty of Gokase Town", and 🎁💫 we ask for 🙇 ♀️ your cooperation
Here's 💡 how to vote
[Voting period: ~ until June 6, 2025 (Friday)]
⚠️ Voting is limited to one vote per Account or one per person.
<If you want to vote from Google Forms>
・Transportation to "Voting Form" from the URL below
https://forms.gle/uBpw7C7xFDsDKBo2A...
・Enter your e-mail address (required). Please include your name if you wish.
・Please select one of the 12 works, put a check mark on the work, and send your response.
⚠️ You do not need to log in, but please note that an email address is required.
<If you vote from Instagram>
・Please follow the Instagram Account of the Gokase Tourism Association.
https://www.instagram.com/gokase_kanko/...
・ Please select one of the 12 works introduced in the post with the hashtag "#Gokase Hanami 2025 Vote" and send ✍ the photo number by message or comment
⚠️ If you do not follow our Account, you will not be Subjected to the Prize Draw due to uncertainty in the exchange of messages. Please be careful.
<If you vote from a polling station>
・ Gokase Town Town hall, Gokase Hot spring Mori no inn Kijiya, Transportation Car Voting at the polling station installed in "Gokase market-go"
・Choose one of the 12 works, fill in the work number, name, and email address on the ballot and post it in the voting envelope.
In addition, we will also set up a polling station at Gokase Secondary School, which collaborated with the Gokase Sakura Project, and ask students to cooperate in 💪✨ voting
⚠️ Please note that if the e-mail address is not filled in or cannot be deciphered due to random handwriting, it will not be Subject gift lottery.
Please take a look at the applicant's original posts before voting 🤗
(1) @sokoatari.urouro (1st photo)
(2) Mr. @fowafuwarin5 (2nd photo)
(3) @ 920cherry71 (3rd photo)
(4) @_yuta610 (4th photo)
(5) Mr. @1230fuukeinoturishi (5th photo)
(6) Mr. @8215dr72 (6th photo)
(7) Mr. @code_name_cross_fire (7th photo)
(8) Mr. @sakai_0808 (8th photo)
(9) Mr. @reoron001219 (9th photo)
(10) Mr. @hisabou1958 (10th photo)
(11) @landscape133_22 (11th photo)
(12) @omilove.1203 (12th photo)
We look 🥰 forward to your many votes
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🌸 Voting for "Gokase Hanami 2025" is now being 🌸 accepted [until June 6, 2025 (Friday)!] 】
Thank you all for applying for "Gokase Hanami 2025"!
Regrettably, the staff of the Tourism Association conducted a strict first selection and selected 12 works 🙏✨ from all the entries
From these 12 works, we would like to 🤩👏 decide the winners by voting from everyone
From those who voted, 10 people will be selected by lottery to receive "Specialty of Gokase Town", and 🎁💫 we ask for 🙇 ♀️ your cooperation
Here's 💡 how to vote
[Voting period: ~ until June 6, 2025 (Friday)]
⚠️ Voting is limited to one vote per Account or one per person.
<If you want to vote from Google Forms>
・Transportation to "Voting Form" from the URL below
https://forms.gle/uBpw7C7xFDsDKBo2A...
・Enter your e-mail address (required). Please include your name if you wish.
・Please select one of the 12 works, put a check mark on the work, and send your response.
⚠️ You do not need to log in, but please note that an email address is required.
<If you vote from Instagram>
・Please follow the Instagram Account of the Gokase Tourism Association.
https://www.instagram.com/gokase_kanko/...
・ Please select one of the 12 works introduced in the post with the hashtag "#Gokase Hanami 2025 Vote" and send ✍ the photo number by message or comment
⚠️ If you do not follow our Account, you will not be Subjected to the Prize Draw due to uncertainty in the exchange of messages. Please be careful.
<If you vote from a polling station>
・ Gokase Town Town hall, Gokase Hot spring Mori no inn Kijiya, Transportation Car Voting at the polling station installed in "Gokase market-go"
・Choose one of the 12 works, fill in the work number, name, and email address on the ballot and post it in the voting envelope.
In addition, we will also set up a polling station at Gokase Secondary School, which collaborated with the Gokase Sakura Project, and ask students to cooperate in 💪✨ voting
⚠️ Please note that if the e-mail address is not filled in or cannot be deciphered due to random handwriting, it will not be Subject gift lottery.
Please take a look at the applicant's original posts before voting 🤗
(1) @sokoatari.urouro (1st photo)
(2) Mr. @fowafuwarin5 (2nd photo)
(3) @ 920cherry71 (3rd photo)
(4) @_yuta610 (4th photo)
(5) Mr. @1230fuukeinoturishi (5th photo)
(6) Mr. @8215dr72 (6th photo)
(7) Mr. @code_name_cross_fire (7th photo)
(8) Mr. @sakai_0808 (8th photo)
(9) Mr. @reoron001219 (9th photo)
(10) Mr. @hisabou1958 (10th photo)
(11) @landscape133_22 (11th photo)
(12) @omilove.1203 (12th photo)
We look 🥰 forward to your many votes
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【🌿 New Tea Season 🌿】
Tea fields have turned bright green in Gokase In the town 😌🍵
The 1st ~ 2nd photo is in front 📸✨ of a private house in Mulberry Nouchi where the weeping cherry blossoms were beautiful, which I introduced in Spring
In addition to the green color of the cherry blossoms, the two-tone tea plantation was 🥺👏 a very beautiful sight
New Tea are Receiving one after another at the specialty center, and the Aroma of New Tea is wafting in 🥰 the store
Enjoy 🍵✨ the taste of New Tea leaves, which are highly aromatic and make you feel as if you are in a Tea field
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【White Iwayama (rocky mountain)🌸】
Today (5/11), the "White Iwayama (rocky mountain) opening" was 😊 held at the Gokase Highland Ski Resort Parking Center
While feeling the clear air of the mountains, Shinto rituals were held 👏 while praying for safety in the mountains, mainly by the people involved
After the Shinto ritual, those who wish to do 💪 so start climbing to the Cluster of trees
It seems 💡 that azaleas, okamenoki, mountain peonies, and rhododendrons were in Best time to visit
⚠ ⚠ Information
2025 (Reiwa 7) from May 12th, due to road disaster reconstruction work, the town road Honyashiki, the Wave Line, and the Wave Forest Road, which are the Access roads to the Burdock Hatake Trailhead (Haku Iwayama (rocky mountain), Mukaisakayama, Kiritatekoshi), will be completely closed for the time being.
Use Mt. Ogawadake: Tenyabo Trailhead (Road Cave-in, Many Rock Falls, Bad Road) to Shirayama Iwayama (rocky mountain), Mt. Mukaisaka, and Kiritatekoshi.
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[🌸 Gokase Hanami 2025 application photo introduction ~ 12th ~🌸]
The application period has finally ended today, 5/11 (Sunday), and we would like 💪❤️ 🔥 to introduce the works that have been submitted to "#Gokase Hanami 2025" Held in on the Instagram Account of the Gokase Tourism Association
Mr. @hanpenpen2022
Mr. @goto0619
(in no particular order)
This work is the azalea of Mt. Nijo and the white flowers of Kuraoka ... What kind of flower is 🤔 this? Everyone knows very well what kind of flowers bloom when and where, and it is very wonderful ✨ that they have memories and attachments to each flower, and that feeling seems to be reflected in the photos
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"#Gokase Hanami 2025" has finally ended 👏 today, Sunday, May 11th! Even though you were thinking of applying, please don't forget to apply 💡❗ before you end up ~ 😭
≪#Gokase Hanami 2025 How to apply≫
Please follow the Gokase Tourism Association Instagram Account and post 🤳❤️ 🔥 photos of flowers taken in Gokase In the Town on Instagram with the two hashtags #Gokase Hanami 2025 and #shooting date (e.g. #March 20)
Gokase Tourism Association Instagram Account
https://www.instagram.com/gokase_kanko/...
Period: Thursday, March 20, 2025 to Sunday, May 11, 2025
⚠️ Other terms and conditions are Publication on the Gokase Tourism Association website. Please be sure to read it when applying.
https://www.town.gokase.miyazaki.jp/kanko/ivent/1962.html...
⚠️ Please be careful of accidents when shooting.
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Miyazaki Gokase Tourism Association shared article.
Gokase Town has been introduced 👏✨ in the article
Please take a look 😆!
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【Azalea Blooming Josen Temple】
Josen Temple 🌸 was crowded with many cherry blossom viewers in Spring
The Shidarezakura (weeping cherry blossoms) trees with scattered flowers and fresh green leaves are also beautiful ✨
Azalea flowers were blooming in the Precincts, and the contrast between fresh greenery and vermilion was 😆 wonderful
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【Carp Streamers Sports Festival 🎏 & Azalea Festival 🌸】
Carp streamers sports day & azalea Festival was held in 😊 in the 8th ward on May 5
Carp streamers raised by local volunteers swam gracefully in the blue sky, and a Carp streamer sports day was 👟 held in the morning
Adult and children enjoyed the competition 😆✨ with smiles on their faces
In the afternoon, the venue was moved to the gymnasium, where a quiz competition and a karaoke competition were held in 🎤
At the end, the long-awaited lottery was held, and it was 😍 a day of great Gari excitement from beginning to end
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[5/3 Kurara Festival 2025]
GW's Start Dash 💪💨
On May 3, Constitution Memorial Day, "Kurara Festival 2025" was held in at the former Kuraoka junior 🥳 high school "Kuraoka Kurara"
The day ☀️✨ couldn't have been clearer
The venue was lined with many food and drink Stalls, fortune telling, Relaxation, miscellaneous goods, flea markets, etc., and it was 🤗🌟 a very busy day with about 300 visitors
It was quite a warm day, so Oyster ice was 🍧💕 Popular (Adult Sake 🍺?). )
In the courtyard, there was a hula dance performance by the members of Nani.loa HULA studio, and 🌺 a special guest, the vice principal of Kuraoka Elementary School, also performed an enthusiastic performance, which Gari 😆🔥 also very exciting
Fun raffle won many gorgeous prizes, and everyone was full ☺️✨ of smiles
It is a new festival that has been Held in since last year, but it has already become a festival that has penetrated and is loved both inside and outside the Local 👏💡
Held in 💕 next year
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[🌸 Gokase Hanami 2025 application photo introduction ~ 11th ~🌸]
It's been a long time since we've had a yellowtail, but we will 🤩💫 resume introducing the works that were submitted to the "#Gokase Hanami 2025" Held in on the Instagram Account of the Gokase Tourism Association
Mr. @sayasyoto
We received many photos of rare bamboo such as rhododendrons and kikkouchiku at Sankasho Shrine, and ✨ they also introduced the beauty of leaf cherry blossoms 🌸🌿, so please ☺️💕 Fun to compare them with the photos of cherry blossoms that we introduced before
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By the way, the "#Gokase Hanami 2025", which has been Held in for a long time, is finally the last spurt, and 💪💡it is Held in until May 11 (Sunday), so if you have any photos of Gokase flowers taken during Golden Week, please apply 🤗✨
≪#Gokase Hanami 2025 How to apply≫
Please follow the Gokase Tourism Association Instagram Account and post 🤳❤️ 🔥 photos of flowers taken in Gokase In the Town on Instagram with the two hashtags #Gokase Hanami 2025 and #shooting date (e.g. #March 20)
Gokase Tourism Association Instagram Account
https://www.instagram.com/gokase_kanko/...
Period: Thursday, March 20, 2025 to Sunday, May 11, 2025
⚠️ Other terms and conditions are Publication on the Gokase Tourism Association website. Please be sure to read it when applying.
https://www.town.gokase.miyazaki.jp/kanko/ivent/1962.html...
⚠️ Please be careful of accidents when shooting.
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[🌸 Gokase Cherry Blossom Viewing 2025 Application Photo Introduction ~ 10th ~🌸]
The works submitted for the "#Gokase Hanami 2025" Held in on the Instagram Account of the Gokase Tourism Association are still accepting applications for the photo contest once it has been completed 💪🌸 today, so please 🤗✨ apply
Mr. @_yuta610
Mr. @fowafuwarin5
Mr. @meiko_ryu
@tokotan2._.2
(in no particular order)
This time, there were a lot of cherry blossoms at night, and 👏 post can't take night photos at all no matter what I do, even if I use a stepladder, but I wonder how everyone can take beautiful night photos tarako really 🤔 wonderful!!
Also, I will 🤗💡 post it when I gather works that I can introduce
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≪#Gokase Hanami 2025 How to apply≫
Please follow the Gokase Tourism Association Instagram Account and post 🤳❤️ 🔥 photos of flowers taken in Gokase In the Town on Instagram with the two hashtags #Gokase Hanami 2025 and #shooting date (e.g. #March 20)
Gokase Tourism Association Instagram Account
https://www.instagram.com/gokase_kanko/...
Period: Thursday, March 20, 2025 to Sunday, May 11, 2025
⚠️ Other terms and conditions are Publication on the Gokase Tourism Association website. Please be sure to read it when applying.
https://www.town.gokase.miyazaki.jp/kanko/ivent/1962.html...
⚠️ Please be careful of accidents when shooting.
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