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Friendship Exchange City
Last Updated July 4, 2024
Exchange with Shimokawa-cho, Hokkaido
In 2011, the Shimokawacho, Totsuka-ku, and the Totsuka Ward Office concluded a friendship exchange agreement with Totsuka Ward and Shimokawa-cho, Hokkaido, in order to further deepen and cooperate with each other.
Every year, we engage in exchanges centered on local activities, such as youth exchanges that accept elementary school students with each other, and holding workshops using thinned wood from Shimokawacho at eco events.
Youth exchange
The community is the main body, and we exchange elementary school students with each other every year.
In summer, children from Shimokawa-cho visit Totsuka to visit facilities engaged in environmental activities and experience pear picking, and in winter, children from Tozuka go to Shimokawacho to visit woody biomass facilities, ski, and shiitake hunting. I am doing.
Use of thinned wood in Shimokawa-cho
At eco-events, inhabitants of a ward participate and make license plates (*) and key chains using thinned wood from Shimokawa-cho.
※It is used as a license plate in a row of cherry blossom trees on the Kashio River.
A forest
As part of the efforts of the Friendship Exchange Agreement, we concluded the "Totsuka no Mori" agreement in 2013.
This agreement provides naming rights (naming rights) as "Totsuka no Mori" in a part of Shimokawa-cho-owned forest to raise mutual environmental awareness.
At the time of the conclusion of the agreement, five larch trees were planted in "Totsuka no Mori" in response to the carbon offset that was undertaken at five local events in the city in 2012.
About Shimokawa-cho, Hokkaido
Shimokawa-cho is located in the northern part of Hokkaido, about 100 km north of Asahikawa City, and about 90% of the town's area (64,420 ha) is blessed with rich and beautiful nature and forest resources, such as forests.
Winter can rarely be -30 ° C, and it is a snowy and cold region where snowfall continues from November to March.
In addition, it was selected as an SDGs Future City in FY2018 due to projects such as the use of renewable energy, mainly forest biomass.
Shimokawa-cho, Hokkaido homepage (outside site)
For more information about Shimokawa-cho, please see here.
Inquiries to this page
Totsuka Ward General Affairs Department Ward Administration Promotion Division
Telephone: 045-866-8321
Telephone: 045-866-8321
Fax: 045-862-3054
Email address: to-kusei@city.yokohama.lg.jp
Page ID: 564-167-623
