The final examination of the "35th Hirosaki Castle Miss Sakura Contest" was held on April 7th at the Hirosaki Cultural Center (Shimohiragincho, Hirosaki City).

Focusing on events such as the "Hirosaki Sakura Festival" and "Hirosaki Neputa Festival", the contest is to select women who will carry out public relations activities in Hirosaki City within and outside the prefecture for one year. From the 17 people who passed the document screening, a total of 3 people were selected, one for the Miss Sakura Grand Prix and two for the Miss Sakura.

The wardrobe uniform is a white blouse and a black skirt. Each person will be given 1 minute of PR time and 3 minutes of time to answer the questions of the judges with Mayor Hirosaki as the judge. Some entrants talked about Tsugaru-ben and performed songs and hula.

The winner of the Miss Sakura Grand Prix was Mutsumi Matsuyama, an office worker who lives in Itayanagi. He spends his holidays doing reporter and model talent activities. At the moment when the grand prix was announced, she held a tear and smiled. “Thanks and joy for the people who helped me, and tears overflowed,” says Matsuyama.

He said that when he participated in a photo exhibition in Tokyo, people from outside the prefecture talked about the cherry blossoms of Hirosaki Park and the charm of Hirosaki, and wanted to disseminate the charm as a local people. Mr. Matsuyama shows his willingness to send Hirosaki together for three years as a miss cherry blossom at milestones such as 130th anniversary of Hirosaki municipal administration and Reiwa first at the end of Heisei.

The two Miss Sakura are Nanaho Nishimura, a company employee, and Chihiro Saeki, a university student. Mr. Nishimura recalled that he was recommended by his boss and entered, and he wants to send Hirosaki through a calligraphy performance that he started in the third grade of elementary school. "I want to do my best with Sakura Miku, who became the supporting character for the Hirosaki Sakura Festival," he said.

Mr. Saeki showed "easy Japanese" learned at Hirosaki University seminar at PR time. Mr. Saeki says, "I want to learn tourism, culture and history from now on in order to convey the appeal to foreign countries by using "friendly Japanese" that is easy for inbound foreigners to understand."

The first job will be the opening ceremony of the "Hirosaki Sakura Festival" on April 20.