The Hirosaki Keizai Shimbun's PV (page view) ranking for the first half of the year was "Hirosaki's long-established mochi store closed, "breakdown of "predecessor taste" rice cake making machine failure, looking for powerful information" ranked first.

The top two are articles that call for information provision on the Internet, and have spread access centered on SNS etc. At the Toda Uchiwa Mochi Store, which was the first article, the malfunction of the rice cake making machine has already been repaired and the business has resumed. Among the ranking articles up to the 10th place, the related person was surprised that the article related to the ``Hirosaki Sakura Festival'' that more than 2 million people visited this year at one of the four Hirosaki festivals did not rank There is.

The ranking is an aggregate of the PV of Headline News distributed from January 1st to June 30th of this year. The top 10 articles are as follows (postings in parentheses).

1. A long-established mochi shop in Hirosaki is closed. We are looking for influential information about the malfunction of the rice cake making machine that reproduces the "predecessor taste" (April 8)

2. “I don't want to regret” inviting Hirosaki hospitalized patients to improve their intractable diseases online (April 20)

3. "Too Free" calligraphy exhibition in Hirosaki, this year again with themes such as "sword", "wrestler", "deep sea creature" (March 24)

4. The pilgrimage to the holy land of the cartoon "Flying Witch" becomes popular in Hirosaki (May 11)

5. Aomori Prefectural Police Twitter's bear caution tweet “On my heart,” talked about online (June 3)

6. New stores one after another in Hirosaki City First cafe in Hirosaki and nationally registered tangible cultural property (March 14)

7. Hirosaki Castle Miss Sakura Contest held This year's Grand Prix is a 23-year-old employee (April 11)

8. Hiroboshi niboshi pork bone ramen shop Senior and junior high school students opened (February 17)

9. 13 types of local soft serve ice cream on the Aomori/West coast “Soft serve highway” (March 15)

10. A new shop for shrimp noodles in Hirosaki Fathers and daughters cut out on a tripod (March 30)

"Too Free Calligraphy Exhibition" ranked in 3rd place is a calligraphy exhibition that exhibited works written by students in the calligraphy classroom centered on elementary and junior high school students, "Samurai's famous sword" "Favorite sumo wrestler" "Deep sea creature" Unique themes such as these attracted attention. This exhibition is the sixth time this year, and Sakurafuze Miura of the Sakurafu branch of the "Japan Education Calligraphy Association" that he hosted was also enthusiastic about holding next year.

The PVs after the 4th place are small, and an article (4th place) that the number of "pilgrimages to the sacred place" is increasing as the "Flying Witch" anime set in Hirosaki is broadcast and the tour of the stage is published, Aomori Prefectural Police The article that introduced a “warm-hearted” bear-bearing tweet (5th place) and the article that a new store for various industries could be opened in Hirosaki city until early spring (6th place) were ranked.

Below 10th, there was an article related to the "Hirosaki Sakura Festival" for the first time in 11th, and it became a "heart-shaped" cherry tree branch that was talked about by young women in Hirosaki Park.