Rina Sumioka ( 住岡 梨奈 , Sumioka Rina , born 15 February 1990) is a Japanese female singer-songwriter.
6-544: Sumioka was born in Noboribetsu city in the Hokkaido prefecture. Just before graduating from high school, her juniors invited her to join a band as their vocalist. Since then she started composing songs with her father's acoustic guitar and writing lyrics herself. During her university years, she was very active in her school's music club. She even became the head of the music club in her third year. She graduated from
12-604: A range of onsen for bathing as well as other hot springs formed from different minerals for scenic viewing, and is also known for its bear park. Noboribetsu-onsen is one of many well-known resorts in Japan, with many hotels and ryokan , and is the largest "hot spring town" in Hokkaido. There is also the Noboribetsu Marine Park Nixe , the largest aquarium in Hokkaido. This Hokkaidō location article
18-532: Is a city in Iburi Subprefecture , Hokkaido , Japan. Part of Shikotsu-Toya National Park , it is southwest of Sapporo , west of Tomakomai and northeast of Hakodate . As of September 2016, the city has an estimated population of 49,523 and a population density of 230 persons per km . The total area is 212.11 km . The city office is in Horobetsu. The town of Noboribetsu is at the mouth of
24-759: The Faculty of Environmental System Sciences of Rakuno Gakuen University in March 2012. When Sumioka was playing her first live performance at a live house in 2009, she was scouted by some staff from Sony Music. She debuted with the single "feel you" on June 20, 2012 under the Ki/oon music label. She joined Fuji Television 's reality show Terrace House: Boys × Girls Next Door as a regular cast member from July 12, 2013 to January 27, 2014, which greatly increased her popularity. Noboribetsu, Hokkaido Noboribetsu ( 登別市 , Noboribetsu-shi , Ainu : nupur-pet )
30-564: The Iburi-horobetsu River and the Washibetsu River respectively. The name, Noboribetsu, derives from an Ainu word, nupur-pet, which means dark-colored river; the kanji 登別 , meaning "climbing different", are used for their phonetic value only, and have no relation to the original meaning. 6 km inland from Noboribetsu City in the river valley is the smaller town of Noboribetsu-onsen ( 登別温泉 ) . The town has
36-659: The Noboribetsu river and is therefore a much narrower area. The mountains dominate the west and north while the plains dominate around five km within the coastline. There are three towns along the Pacific Ocean: from northeast to southwest, Noboribetsu, Horobetsu and Washibetsu. These betsu are derived from "river" in the Ainu language . Noboribetsu is on the Noboribetsu River. Horobetsu and Washibetsu are on
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