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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【🌸 Gokase Hanami 2025🌸】March 20 (Thu) ~ May 11 (Sun)!
(I'm sure) the snow has been delivered, and the flower season is finally approaching in Gokase Town, and ✨ we will 🤩🙌 do an Instagram campaign in Spring
Please follow the Gokase Tourism Association Instagram Account (https://www.instagram.com/gokase_kanko/)... and post 🤳❤️ 🔥 photos of flowers taken in Gokase In the town to Instagram with two hashtags: #Gokase Flower 2025 and #Shooting date (e.g. #March 20)
Every day during the period, one person will receive 🎁✨ a mini set of Gokase Town Specialty products.
What a surprise this time!
During the Light up of Kijiya's Shidarezakura (weeping cherry blossoms) by the "Gokase Sakura Project" sponsored by students of Gokase Secondary School (March 23 (Sun) ~ April 2 (Water)), those who submit a photo of Kijiya's Shidarezakura (weeping cherry blossoms) will have a double 😮✨ chance of winning the prize every day!
In addition! For excellent works, we will 🤩👏 send you an assortment of Specialty products of Gokase Town
And even more! This time, the "Gokase Sakura Project Award" is also ... 🤭🌟!?
The works posted will be introduced 💡 at any time on the Gokase Tourism Association and the social media of the "Gokase Sakura Project"
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/index.html...
⚠️ Please be careful of accidents when shooting.
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In Gokase Town in Spring, you can enjoy 🌸 many flowers such as rhododendrons and azaleas as well as Shidarezakura (weeping cherry blossoms)
Squid in the warm climate, how about 🤗 visiting flowers in Gokase Town?
We look forward ✨ to your participation
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[Announcement ❄️ of Winter Gokase 2025❄️ Results]
Thank you for waiting! !️
Announcement 🥳🎉 of the results of "Winter Gokase 2025"
This time, in addition to the followers of the Gokase Tourism Association's Instagram Account, we decided 👏✨ the winning item by voting by Facebook and Google Form
Thank you to 🙇 ♀️💕 everyone who voted
Now, let's announce the 👇👇👇 results
[🥇 Gold Award]
Mr. @mas8787a
[🥈 Silver Prize]
Mr. @fowafuwarin5
[🥉 Bronze Award]
Mr. @yamabico_san
The Gokase Highland Ski Resort, which has been revived in yellowtail three years, and the winter appearance of Josenji Temple, which enjoys beautiful scenery in both Spring and autumn, won prizes 🤩✨
It is raining today, but there was a lot of snow this year, so ❄️ there are many difficulties, but I am always amazed 👏 by the power of Nature that creates beautiful scenery and by the people who express themselves through the viewfinder
Congratulations ㊗️🥳🎉 to all the winners
And There is a to 😭❤️ 🔥 everyone who applied, voted, and participated
Spring is finally here 🌸
We will inform you of the Spring campaign soon, so when you come to Gokase to enjoy cherry blossom viewing, please take many photos and cry when 😭💕 you participate
💫 Best regards
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【Cotton Cafe】Relaxing, yarn spinning experience 🧶
Today, I would like to introduce ☺️✨ the "Cotton Cafe" held on the third Saturday of every month at the former Kuraoka junior high school "Kuraokakura"
Feel free to Use the café only.☕💕
You can 😌 order delicious homemade cakes and drinks
Today's cake was a cake with kumquat jam and a cake 🍰✨ with apple jam (I had a lot of it, but it was 🤤 insanely delicious)
Everyone was having a relaxing time 🫶 while enjoying reading and chatting
Of course! There is a fee, but you can 🧶✨ also experience yarn spinning
Pick up cotton seeds with a "cotton gin"
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Use a tool called a "hand carder" like a large slicker brush to adjust the stream of fibers.
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When wrapped around a winding stick, a bundle of cotton called a "pony" is formed 😌☁️, which looks like a fluffy cocoon
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If you pull this out little by little with a tool called a spindle and twist it, you will get 😳👏 a magnificent thread as shown in the first photo
It seems that 💡 you can adjust the thickness of the finished yarn by twisting the fiber and the amount of force
You can make it thinner or thicker, or try to spin a single yarn with various thicknesses... There are There are fun of spinning your favorite yarn If 🤗✨ you are interested, please try 💪 it
When you visit Cotton Cafe, you don't need to make a reservation or anything, so 👌 please feel free to stop by and enjoy 😌🌿 your own time
【Date & Time】3rd Saturday 13:00~15:00
【Place】Kuraoka Kurara (Staff Room)
〒882-1201 5929 Kuraoka, Gokase-cho, Nishiusuki-gun, Miyazaki Prefecture
【Reservation】Not required
【Fee】Yarn spinning experience 1,500 yen, cotton (with seeds) 400 yen
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❄️ Voting for "Winter Gokase 2025" is now open [❄️ until Sunday, March 16, 2025!] 】
Thank you all for submitting to the "Winter Hunt 2025"!
We regret to inform you that the staff of the Tourism Association conducted a strict first selection and selected 10 works 🙏✨ from all the entries
From these 10 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 products of Gokase Town", and 🎁💫 we ask for 🙇 ♀️ your cooperation
Here's 💡 how to vote
[Voting period: ~ until March 16, 2025 (Sunday)]
⚠️ Voting is limited to one vote per Account or one per person.
<If you vote from Instagram>
https://www.instagram.com/gokase_kanko/...
・Please follow the Instagram Account of the Gokase Tourism Association.
・ Please select one of the 10 works featured in the post with the hashtag "#Winter Gokase 2025 Vote" and comment ✍ the photo number in the comment section of the post
⚠️ If you do not follow them, you will not be Subjected to the Giveaway Draw due to uncertainty in the exchange of messages. Please be careful.
<If you vote through Facebook>
https://www.facebook.com/gokase.kanko/?locale=ja_JP...
・Please select one of the 10 works introduced in this post and comment the number of the photo in the comments.
・ Voting is limited to one time per Account.
⚠️ If you win the prize draw, you will be contacted via Facebook message. Please note that if you do not receive a reply for 2 weeks, it will be invalidated.
If you vote from < Home page>
・ Go to the "Winter Gokase 2025 Voting" page from the Gokase Tourism Association's Home page and New Topics (https://www.town.gokase.miyazaki.jp/kanko/ivent/1994.html)...
・Click on the URL on the "Winter Gokase 2025 Voting" page to open the "Voting Form"
・Enter your e-mail address
・Please select one work from 10 works, put a check mark on that work, and send your answer.
⚠️ If you do not enter your email address, you will not be eligible for the Subject of the Prize Draw.
Please take a look at the applicant's original posts before voting 🤗
(1) Mr. @yamabico_san (2nd photo)
(2) Mr. @gokase_entertainment (3rd photo)
(3) Mr. @photo_ay_umi (4th photo)
(4) Mr. @mgm_1228 (5th photo)
(5) Mr. @eco9syu_sekiryo (6th photo)
(6) Mr. @goto0619 (7th photo)
(7) Mr. @fowafuwarin5 (8th photo)
(8) Mr. @thusandleavis (9th photo)
(9) Mr. @mas8787a (10th photo)
(10) Mr. @photo_ay_umi (11th photo)
We look 🥰 forward to your many votes
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🎿 Ski Resort Final Events 🏂
Sunday, March 9 was the last business day ❄️ at Gokase Highland Ski Resort
In clear weather, a large lottery was held 🎁 from 11 o'clock
Gari cheered every time the winning numbers of the luxury premiums were announced, and the big draw ended 😆✨ with a big Gari
Visitors enjoyed the last Slope of the season immediately after the draw was 🎿 over
Gokase Highland Ski Resort ❄️ revived this season
Thanks to all of you, we have been able 😊 to operate safely until today
There is a very much 🥰
We look forward to seeing you again next season!!
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[Light of Life Project in Gokase Town]
On Saturday, March 8th, I visited 🤗 the "Light of Life Project in Gokase Town" Held in at the Gokase Town Welfare Center
This Events is an Events 😌 that has been going on since 2011, the year after the Great East Japan Earthquake, despite a four-year period of self-restraint due to the Coronavirus pandemic
It was a beautiful Events that reminded ✨ us of the people in the disaster-stricken areas caused by the earthquake and other disasters that occur in various parts of Japan, and hoped that we would never let it fade away and cherish our lives
A donation box was set up at the venue to collect donations for the reconstruction of disaster-stricken areas, and each of the visitors cooperated with ☺️ the donation
Stalls selling delicious light snacks and cute miscellaneous goods were also available, and the venue was 🥳 crowded
On stage, hosted by the organizer G Music Taino Corps, there are a lot of 🤩✨ fun programs such as singing and dancing
There were also many songs that carried thoughts on disaster-stricken areas, making it a 😌👏 program unique to charity Events
At the end, there was an ensemble of "Flowers Bloom" in which the visitors and 🎶 together with the song
At the end of the Events, there was a lighting ceremony of wax balls created by the children, and all the visitors and a moment of silence in the venue surrounded by gentle light.
I hope that the thoughts from Gokase Town will reach the disaster-stricken areas ... 🙏
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[❄️ Winter Gokase 2025 application photo introduction ~ final time ~❄️]
Until 2/28, "#Winter Gokase 2025" 💡 was held in on the Instagram Account of the Gokase Tourism Association
This was the 🥹✨ last time we introduced the works that we submitted
Mr. @fowafuwarin5
Mr. @mas8787a
Mr. @mgm_1228
(in no particular order)
The long-awaited first appearance! Unoko Waterfall ✨ and wonderful works 👏 that captured the ski resort where there is still snow and the surrounding Nature
Thank you very much for your many applications 😭
It was a cold winter, but many of the winter photos were 😊☀️ somewhat heartwarming
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[❄️ Winter Gokase 2025 application photo introduction ~ 6th ~ ] ❄️
Although it has become much warmer during the day, the cold in the mornings and evenings is still severe in Gokase Town 🥶
Thankfully, the application photos posted in "#Winter Gokase 2025" Held in on the Instagram Account of the Gokase Tourism Association have also accumulated, so we would like to introduce them 🙌✨
Mr. @donguri223103
Mr. @xitiannaiyang4
Mr. @goto0619
Mr. @irnoarkoa
Mr. @yamabico_san
@satoshi.misaki
Mr. @thusandleavis
Mr. @fowafuwarin5
(in no particular order)
Speaking of winter scenery, there are many in the Kuraoka area, but this time we also posted the snow scenery of Josenji Temple in the Sankasho areaEven 👏✨ in the same snow scenery, the fun atmosphere of the ski resort, the calm atmosphere of winter in the Kuraoka area, the sacred and quiet atmosphere of Josenji ... Each of them ☺️💫 has its own flavor and is wonderful
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There are only a few days left until the application deadline for this campaign, so ✨ please feel free to apply 🤗🎶 for a little winter photo
<How to apply> (Deadline: Friday, February 28, 2025)
Follow the Gokase Tourism Association's Instagram (@gokase_kanko) and add the hashtags "#Winter Gokase 2025" and "#Shooting location (e.g. #Unoko Falls)" post 📸
Gokase Tourism Association Instagram Account
https://www.instagram.com/gokase_kanko/...
* Thereare risks such as snow accumulation and icy roads. Please be careful ⚠️ to ensure safety and avoid accidents when shooting
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【Mystery solving Events at Gion Shrine】
On Saturday, February 22, a mystery-solving Events was Held in at Gion Shrine in the Kuraoka area, and 👏 its name was "Gion Shrine Real Mystery Solving "As God Says". 💡
Local high school students and students from Gokase Secondary School took the lead in preparing for this Events 😳✨ in collaboration with Local companies Gokase Entertainment and Kuraoka Love Girls' Association
Many participants, from children to adults, gathered, and lively voices echoed 🤗🎶 in the Precincts of Gion Shrine
However, the problem of solving the mystery is quite difficult until there is inspiration and discovery... The person who posted it also thought hard, but in the end I didn't understand and 🤣 borrowed the wisdom of the children lol.
As I solved the riddle, I was able to learn the correct way to prayer Gion Shrine, but 😯💡 I didn't know such manners at all, so I made many new discoveries and it was 🤩 very fun
After solving the mystery, the battle with the gods (dressed as the students of Gokase Secondary School) awaits ⚔️ in the first and second parts
The first part of Roux's game "Sengoku Gokase Town" is the first part 💪, in which the first person to approach the place where the god is located and drop the ball on the shoulder with the sword first wins
In the second part 👐, the "rope" of the loot won in the first part is placed in a circle and placed on the ground as a Dohyo (sumo ring), and a "hand-pushed sumo" match with the gods
Both Adults and children were Gari and full of smiles 😆 from start to finish
When you complete all the processes, you will receive a "Mystery Solving Completion Certificate", but if you look closely, the color is different depending on the person ... 🤔?
In fact, the hand-pushed sumo in the second part was modeled after the dedication sumo wrestling in which the gods were entertained in the "Morimaki Shinto ritual" held at Gion Shrine, and it was 🤣 said that "it is more correct to lose to the gods", so the "mystery solving completion certificate" of the person who lost the hand-pushed sumo was shining in gold
It was 🥹✨ wonderful to feel the students' attention to detail in the setting
At the end, all the participants and students took a commemorative photo, and warm Tea was served as a participation prize provided by Seuseien, and the Events ended 😌👏 in a peaceful and lively manner
Thereare 🥹 the excitement of Gokase Town at Events created by students, Local companies, and local organizations
I would ✨ like to continue to work together as a town to enliven Gokase Town
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【Shirataki Winter Sugata】
Take a look 😳!
Due to the cold wave of the past few days, Shirataki has become ❄️✨ beautiful with snow and ice
A series of slightly bluish snow and ice pillars make it a spectacular sight 👏
If you can, see for yourself! … I would like to say that, but the road to Shirataki is also coated with snow and ice and is ⚠️ very dangerous
This time, specially trained tourism association staff have climbed out of life, so please Enjoy the photos ... 🙏🙏🙏
This is already a dangerous road to Shirataki, so please understand 😭
Even so, the art created by Nature is really beautiful...
I was tired of all the snow, but it's ✨ not all bad
Let's 💪❤️ 🔥 have a positive and fun time
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