NPO Biei photo image Association

In order to keep the agriculture and landscape of the hills of the town Biei

In order to inherit the future the importance of agricultural landscape, to our landscape conservation activities in cooperation with the region together with, please help us by all means.

To honor the agriculture and landscape of the hill town Biei
 
Shooting Manners & Rules
Please cooperate when taking photos and videos
 
Hill town Biei has become an important tourism resource with magnificent nature, vast field that is home of agricultural products, forests and patchwork fields that change colors every season against the backdrop of the Tokachi mountains. It's the farmers of Biei that create and maintain this unique agricultural landscape.
We ask the visitors who enjoy the scenery of the hills and take pictures & videos to refrain from behavior that interferes farmers' production activities. When taking photos and videos, give way to others and follow the manners and rules.
 
Please cooperate to conserve the landscape together with the local community so we could inherit this important agricultural landscape to the future generation. We are also gladly participating.
 

Organizations Overview

To take over the beautiful landscape that has been brought up to protect the life of agriculture in the next generation, while exchanges in Japan and overseas photographers and tourists and the photos and video, set the shooting manners and rules of Biei, of agricultural land by the spread and thereby to contribute to the development of the protection and the local economy.

Name: Non-profit organization Biei-cho Photo and Video Association

Location: 9-21-21 Honcho, Biei-cho, Kamikawa-gun, Hokkaido 071-0208
Phone number: 0166-92-4321 (Office: Biei Town Hall Economic and Cultural Promotion Section)

Representative: Hiroshi Iida

Established on March 2, 2018

Information

The Blue Pond is crowded during the season.


It gets particularly congested around the Blue Pond on weekends.
Please be careful on the walkways around the Blue Pond.

The Blue Pond parking lot has implemented an automated gate payment system starting this year.
To alleviate congestion at the parking lot exit, please use the pre-payment machines.

＜The 'Temporary Stop' Traffic Sign＞
In Japan, the traffic sign for temporary stop at intersections and similar locations is represented by this sign. Please note that it differs slightly from international standards. There have been numerous rental car accidents at intersections, so please exercise extra caution.

 Please strictly keep out of the farms and private lands.

Malignant parasites can be transferred from the shoe soles and damage the crops from growing for years.

Brochures for the shooting manners and rules have been created and being distributed.

On February 1, 2018, NPO Biei-cho Photo and Video Association, tourism organizations, commerce and industry, agricultural organizations, and agricultural workers came together to launch the `` Biei-machi Shooting Rule Development Committee '' in Biei-cho and started working to create shooting rules.
Various opinions by each stakeholder were exchanged for two months, and the shooting manner rules for maintaining the farming and landscape of Biei on the hill were completed. Afterwards, we have created a brochure to introduce the shooting manner rules and it aims to enlighten everyone who take photos and videos in Biei. Your cooperation is much appreciated. It is also available in multiple languages ​​for the visitors from overseas.

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