Forza Horizon 6: Find Hokuryu Sunflower Farm for #SunnySnap

Series 4’s Summer Festival Playlist sends the 2013 Wuling Sunshine S to one of the Japan map’s biggest agricultural landmarks for #SunnySnap. The fast answer is to open the map in Hokubu, look south of Hokubu Circuit, then place a waypoint on the huge solid-yellow field west of Irabuohashi Bridge. That field is Hokuryu Sunflower Farm.

Park on the road bordering the field or near the two-storey building at its southwest corner, keep both the Wuling and sunflowers in the frame, then take the Photo Mode shot. You do not need to force the van through the crop rows, and doing so can make it harder to frame enough of the farm for the location check.

#SunnySnap requirements and reward

The #SunnySnap weekly Photo Challenge is in the Series 4 Summer Festival Playlist. It has two mandatory conditions: use the correct vehicle and capture the correct place. The game will only complete the challenge after both conditions register on the Photo Challenge overlay.

• Vehicle: 2013 Wuling Sunshine S
• Location: Hokuryu Sunflower Farm in Hokubu
• Mode: Photo Mode, followed by the capture/confirm input
• Reward: Yellow Sports Sunglasses and 2 Festival Playlist points toward Summer rewards

The Wuling Sunshine S is available from the Autoshow for a low credit cost, so there is no reason to substitute another van or a similar-looking car. #SunnySnap checks the exact model year and vehicle. A different car can still register the farm location, but the vehicle box will remain unchecked and no playlist reward will be granted.

Fastest map route to Hokuryu Sunflower Farm

Hokuryu Sunflower Farm has no dedicated map label, discovery marker, or searchable landmark pin. The map shape is the important part: it is a broad, bright-yellow patch in southern Hokubu, surrounded by darker fields and roads.

1. Open the map and move to Hokubu, the central-north portion of the Japan map.
2. Use Hokubu Circuit as the northern anchor. The sunflower farm is directly south of the circuit and north of Minamino.
3. Find Irabuohashi Bridge on Hokubu’s eastern side, then move the cursor west until it reaches the large yellow field.
4. Set a waypoint on the middle of that field, or fast travel to the nearby Sunflower Charge street race or Yellow Wristband Horizon Invitational event and drive the remaining distance.
5. Follow the road cutting along the field edge. The centre of the farm has a visible crop-maze pattern, while a two-storey building sits near the southwest corner.

Fast-travel trap: arriving at Sunflower Charge or the Horizon Invitational only puts you near the correct area. The challenge is tied to the sunflower field itself. Drive into the yellow-field boundary and make sure the flowers are visible behind the Wuling before opening Photo Mode.

Use Shikisai-no-oka to verify the correct field

The clean backup method is to locate Shikisai-no-oka first. This north-Hokubu flower field is easy to identify because it appears as distinct multicoloured stripes rather than one solid colour. Once it is on screen, move the map cursor directly southeast.

The solid yellow field immediately southeast of Shikisai-no-oka is Hokuryu Sunflower Farm. If the striped field is northwest and the large yellow field is southeast, you have the right destination. This is more dependable than navigating from a nearby race icon, especially when map icons overlap the local roads.

Shikisai-no-oka also remains a useful orientation point when field colours are less obvious. Hokuryu’s crop field can look muted or brown during Winter conditions, while Shikisai-no-oka’s stripe pattern remains much easier to distinguish. For the active Summer #SunnySnap challenge, though, the sunflower field should stand out clearly as yellow.

How to take the photo so the challenge registers

Once you are in the correct field area, use the adjacent road or the farm’s southwest-side building as your staging point. Position the 2013 Wuling Sunshine S with a wide section of sunflowers behind it. A clean side-on or three-quarter angle is usually easier than pointing the van directly into the crops, because the farm needs to remain visibly identifiable in the frame.

1. Confirm that you are driving the 2013 Wuling Sunshine S.
2. Park beside or within the Hokuryu Sunflower Farm field boundary, with sunflowers clearly behind the vehicle.
3. Open Photo Mode using the assigned Photo Mode control. On controller, this is normally accessed through the standard D-pad Up Photo Mode input.
4. Check the Photo Challenge overlay for the two conditions: the correct Wuling and Hokuryu Sunflower Farm.
5. Use the Photo Mode capture/confirm input, typically Right Trigger on controller, rather than simply backing out of Photo Mode.

The completion message should appear immediately after the valid capture. The Yellow Sports Sunglasses are added to your cosmetic inventory, while the playlist progress is credited to the active Summer tab.

Why the challenge fails at the right-looking spot

#SunnySnap is one of the easier weekly photo challenges because the target has a huge map footprint, but it creates a few predictable false negatives. The farm is close to several fields, events, and other photo-related landmarks, so proximity alone does not satisfy the location condition.

• The map search finds nothing: Hokuryu Sunflower Farm has no named pin. Navigate by the large yellow field south of Hokubu Circuit or southeast of Shikisai-no-oka.
• Only the location box is checked: You are at the correct field in the wrong car. Change to the 2013 Wuling Sunshine S before reopening Photo Mode.
• Only the car box is checked: Move farther into the yellow-field area, then angle the camera so the sunflowers occupy a clear portion of the background.
• Neither box is checked: You may be at a nearby plantation rather than Hokuryu. Reconfirm the field’s position west of Irabuohashi Bridge and southwest of Sunflower Charge.
• The shot does not complete the challenge: Capture the photo with the confirm button. Exiting Photo Mode without taking the shot may leave the challenge unregistered.
• You are standing beside a nearby event marker: Event icons are useful fast-travel anchors, but they are not the photo target. Drive from the icon into the actual yellow field.

Why this route is better than searching from the road

Hokuryu Sunflower Farm is easier to identify on the map than many smaller photo landmarks, yet it is also easy to overshoot while driving because its event anchors sit outside the field itself. The map-first route removes that uncertainty: Hokubu Circuit establishes the north-south position, Irabuohashi Bridge establishes the east-west position, and Shikisai-no-oka confirms the final field.

The same approach is useful across the Festival Playlist. Forza Horizon 6 frequently places photo challenges near recognizable scenery while requiring a precise vehicle, as seen with challenges built around landmark framing or specific manufacturers. Treat the map feature as the destination and the nearby event icon as a transport shortcut, rather than assuming the event location is the objective.