Autumn is the season of appetite in Hokkaido! Here are 20 recommended gourmet events in various regions of Hokkaido, perfect for enjoying the harvest season.

This popular event is held in the vicinity of JR Obihiro Station as a meeting place for makers and buyers, featuring foods and dishes made from Tokachi's rich produce. On September 1 (Fri.) and 2 (Sat.), the Night Marché will be held at the North Exit Plaza until 9:00 p.m. The event is a great opportunity for buyers and sellers to meet and enjoy gourmet foods and music to their heart's content. Enjoy gourmet food and music to your heart's content.

This is Mibuka's major autumn harvest festival, with tastings and sales of freshly picked seasonal produce from Mibuka, including first potatoes and pumpkins. Visitors can also enjoy various attractions and singing shows in which they can participate. The festival's major event is the sale of "char-grilled Mibuka beef". Why not try the brand beef, which is inevitably sold out every year?

The "Life Fun Festival" is held twice a year, in spring and fall. In addition to food and drink stalls, freshly picked vegetables and flower seedlings from Higashikawa Town are sold. The annual flea market and handmade craft market for small goods are also popular. On Saturday, September 2, a fireworks display will be held from 6:30 p.m.

The special venue on the riverbed is a large place with lawn all over, very open. In addition to the stage show, there are many attractions such as a gourmet food market where you can taste food produced in Honbetsu Town and a "Pony Banma Race" where cute ponies run through with great power. The finale of the first day of the festival is the Higashi-Tokachi Fireworks Festival, which will be held on the first day of the festival and will feature approximately 6,000 fireworks.

This is one of Hakodate's largest gourmet events, bringing together the tastes and attractions of Hakodate and other cities with ties to the city. In addition to fun stage events such as quiz contests and rock-paper-scissors tournaments, local characters from all over the country will perform, and visitors will be able to enjoy specialty foods and gourmet delicacies from regions throughout Japan, from north to south, that have ties to Hakodate.

The biggest highlight of the festival is the potato digging (Otoshaku and Kitaakari) and all-you-can-stuff vegetables, in which participants buy a bag and participate. Both adults and children can enjoy the feeling of autumn harvest. Auction of Makari Village's specialties and accommodation tickets for Makarina will be held on the stage, and a big lottery with gorgeous prizes will be held as well.

This is the largest food festival in Hokkaido, said to attract more than 2 million visitors. Visitors can enjoy a variety of autumnal delicacies by gathering seasonal ingredients and local gourmet foods from all over Hokkaido. Each street has a different food concept, offering ramen, local specialties, sake, meat, and sweets, and no matter how many times you visit during the festival, you are sure to find something new and exciting to taste. Many visitors look forward to this event every year, and it is also popular among tourists.

This is Hokkaido's representative gourmet event, held every year since 2011 for three days in September, including Respect-for-Senior-Citizens Day. The event is so popular that it is one of the four largest gourmet events in Hokkaido, and approximately 300 restaurants from Asahikawa City, the host city, municipalities in the northern Hokkaido region, and Asahikawa's exchange cities line a 1.7 km-long stretch of the city's streets to offer their regional culinary specialties.

This is the largest festival in Iwamizawa City, and the main attraction is the "Omusu Mochi Pounding," in which specialty rice (glutinous rice) is pounded into rice cakes using one of the world's largest rice mortars. The mortar is 2.2 meters in diameter and weighs 5.5 tons. The streets where the festival takes place are filled with excitement as little children pound rice cakes and enjoy eating, drinking, and shopping at the "Hyakumochi Market.

A gourmet festival held at the Rusutsu Resort, this festival offers all-you-can-eat BBQ and all-you-can-eat amusement park activities at a great price, allowing you to enjoy "eating" and "playing" to your heart's content in the great outdoors. Special live performances by gorgeous artists will be held, and a fireworks display will be held on September 16 (Sat.) and 18 (Mon.).

The festival is one of the three major autumn festivals in Ishikari City, where Hamamasu's famous agricultural, marine, and livestock products, including Ishikari-caught salmon and Japanese black beef, are all gathered for sale. In addition to the "Okiage Ondo," a traditional herring fishing performance by elementary school students, and "Horoho Toyo Daiko," local entertainment, there will also be a bingo tournament and a "mochimaki" (rice cake wrapped in a sticky rice cake with a gift) event. Another attraction is the BBQ corner where visitors can eat their purchases on the spot.

The highlight of the two major autumn events in Nakagawa Town is the "Hokkaido Log Pushing Sumo Tournament," a dynamic competition in which five strong men push a 100kg log against each other. The competition is so heated that even those who are watching can't help but get involved. At the site of the Autumn Festival, visitors can enjoy catching salmon and all-you-can-stuff vegetables, as well as an exhibition of Self-Defense Forces vehicles and a raffle for a chance to ride in one of the vehicles.

This is an industrial festival where visitors can fully enjoy the autumn flavors unique to Taiki Town, which is surrounded by mountains and the sea. Starting with an onsite sale of Taiki-produced wagyu beef, visitors can enjoy a lineup of one-tsubo stores filled with handmade products of the town's residents, as well as restaurant booths, and even catch a horse mackerel. On the event stage, there will be a singing show, a fun raffle, and a mochi-maki (rice cake pounding) event.

In addition to sales of specialty products, there is also a sale of Ishikari morning-caught salmon. This festival offers a taste of Atsuta's hometown with delicacies from the sea and mountains. Charcoal-grilled live scallops and rare Mochorai-don (rice bowl), which is inevitably sold out, are popular. Participatory events such as "akiaji weight-guessing quiz" and "rice cake throwing with a lottery" are also held. It is one of the three major autumn festivals in Ishikari City, attracting many visitors from neighboring towns.

This is a major event in Ishikari, the "Home of Salmon" that started in 1956 and is one of the three major autumn festivals in Ishikari City. It is a popular festival for salmon lovers, with fresh and inexpensive fresh salmon for sale, "Ishikari nabe" made in a large 1,000-person pot, and salmon roe bowls made by local restaurants being very popular. Visitors can also enjoy the "Salmon Catching" event, a specialty of Ishikari, helicopter flights overlooking the Ishikari River, and the "Dosanko Stroll (pulling horse experience)".

One of the four major events in Tsurui Village, this is the village's largest festival held every September. There are many games related to dairy farming, such as the "Milk Drinking Contest" and the "Moo Moo Contest" in which participants compete to imitate the cows' cries. Many food and beverage booths are set up to celebrate the tastes of the season, and there is also a tasting corner using the village's famous milk and a market selling vegetables produced in Tsurui.

The naming of the festival using Hokkaido dialect will warm your heart. This year, the "Yakiniku Plaza," the main event where visitors can enjoy beef from Okito Town grilled over charcoal, will return for the first time in four years. In addition to the many stalls, there will also be a variety of events such as an all-you-can-stuff potato and onion bag, a horse-power udon quick-eating contest, a fun raffle, and a mochi-maki (rice cake throwing) event. The taste buds and fun events are sure to give you horsepower.

This autumn harvest festival features a wide variety of agricultural and livestock products from the town, including Shikaoi beef. The festival also features a "Doki-Doki" lottery, where you can win prizes such as a set of agricultural and livestock products, as well as a "fun raffle" where you can win a set of steaks made from deer-oi beef and other prizes.

This is an event where you can taste "Botan Soba", which is said to be "fantastic soba" due to the difficulty of cultivation and small harvest, despite its great taste and aroma. The event also features a soba eating contest and a demonstration of handmade soba by a master soba chef, attracting many soba lovers every year.

Held every year on the last Sunday in September, this is the largest festival in Shintoku Town and attracts up to 25,000 visitors in search of freshly harvested soba noodles. Not only can visitors compare and contrast the four freshly harvested, freshly ground, freshly beaten, and freshly boiled soba noodles, but they can also enjoy a variety of autumnal delicacies at the many stalls selling local products and other delicacies. The popular annual "Wanko Soba Tournament" will also be held.

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