On December 24, 2023, "Hokkaido Cho-Mikasa Festival. with Snow Miku" was held in Mikasa City, Sorachi, Hokkaido! with Snow Miku". Approximately 5,000 people from within and outside of Mikasa visited the festival. Food, crafts, stage performances, and all the excitement of Mikasa came together for one day! In this issue, we look back on the event with an after report.

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While snow was falling the day before, the day of the event was blessed with clear skies. The event started at 10:00 in the morning in the keen cold air! The main venue is inside the AEON Super Center Mikasa store, but in front of the entrance of the store, kitchen cars offering delicious food from Mikasa were lined up.

Kebab sandwiches with specialties are popular "Tacchan

2 Beans Coffee" warmed visitors with their home-roasted coffee

Saxacrone fries are always served freshly fried! BELLFRIES

Happy Yellow" with plump crepes and fresh homemade lemonade!

Trapper Kitchen" with delicious one-hand pizza!

Upon entering the venue, you will be greeted by Snow Miku & Rabbit Yukine! Beyond the photo spot set up exclusively for the event, a variety of booths will be set up for food, miscellaneous goods, workshops, and more.

The "Mikasa's Delicious Food Booth" was lined with stores from Mikasa City, selling baked goods, bread, and freshly fried zangi, as well as "Magokoro Kitchin" by high school students from the Mikasa High School Culinary Club for one day only. The "Scallop Chowder Soup" and "Rice Flour Chiffon Cake Parfait with Baked Sweet Potato Cream Cheese Sauce" were served, satisfying the stomachs of many visitors.

The famous "Mikasa Coal Zangi" was a sight to behold! Kiiroiro Kuruma

Gohan café Amutto" sells lovely handmade sweets.

The best recommendation is the crispy and fluffy melon bread "Bakery with no name".

2 Beans Coffee" offers home-roasted coffee beans and delicious French baked goods.

The students of Mikasa High School's cooking club created a limited menu for the event! Magokoro Kitchen

The "Craft Sales Booth" features unique small items and handmade accessories by Mikasa's handmade artists. Many people who passed by the booth were amused by their works, and many of them made serious purchases. The booth where visitors could touch real bear fur was a big surprise to visitors from outside Hokkaido.

Hanatakumu/Flower Circle Hanarella" selling floral goods and accessories perfect for the Christmas season

PAPIPUPE-POO" surprised visitors from outside Hokkaido with real bear fur

Natural Cafe" selling warm and delicate handmade goods

Morinokibun" sells firewood and logs made from thinned wood from trees grown in Mikasa

Cute miniature cityscape! Geishuya" selling handmade goods

OSB Kobo" selling goods made from OSB plywood

At the "Workshop Booths," where visitors could learn about the joys of various types of manufacturing, workshops unique to Mikasa were held, such as making Christmas ornaments using Todomatsu (Abies sachalinensis) from the region, an original coloring workshop where Rabbit Yukine unearthed fossils in Mikasa, and a hands-on wood-chopping workshop. All of the booths were crowded with people with their parents and children.

Let's make your own puffy animals and fruits (Rosi's Salon) (Rosi's Salon)

Try your hand at making Christmas ornaments using Abies sachalinensis leaves and pine cones! Swag and ornament making experience (Mikasa Geopark)

Make your own goods by making key chains and ballpoint pens at Natural Cafe.

Kids and adults alike will be thrilled to chop firewood for the first time!

Rabbit Yukine coloring workshop" (Hokkaido Mikasa Tourism Association)

The "piapro wall" with many memories including drawings of Snow Miku and Hatsune Miku.

The mini-stages set up in the venue were a place for local people to present their performances, starting with an opening live performance by the Mikasa Junior High School Brass Band, followed by a talk show about the attractions of Mikasa, and a live performance by Rhythmy, who lives in Kuriyama Town, next to Mikasa City.

Mikasa Municipal Mikasa Junior High School Brass Band" was the top performer of the stage events.

Mikasa Gurashi Sometimes Bear⁉Talk Session" with an exciting quiz about bears

Rhythmy/Rhythmy" sang with a clear voice.

Snow Miku" and "Rabbit Yukine," the main characters supporting this event, also appeared on the mini stage! They enlivened the event while visiting each of the exhibition booths.

The "Hokkaido Cho-Mikasa Festival. with Snow Miku" showcases the rich food and lifestyle of Mikasa! with Snow Miku". Local families, students from Mikasa, and Snow Miku fans who came from all over to enjoy the unique booths in the snow.