Domo-kun and Charo meet a strange girl in the hustle and bustle Tokyo. Since "that day", she has not gone back home. When Charo gives the girl a wreath of Gerbera plants, she accidentally sneezes. A burst of magic came out of the Gerbera, and a flower train emerges from the middle of a flower garden. As the three board the flower train, it starts moving toward the girl's hometown. However, what awaits them is a ferocious storm!
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Animated short to support the reconstruction of areas hit by the 2011 Great Eastern Japan Earthquake.
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(Source: Official website)

A co-production between Nickelodeon and NHK featuring the stop-motion character Domo-kun, aired both in the US and Japan.

NHK's English education program featured the adventures of a puppy named Charo in New York.

"Hana wa Saku" is a song written by Shunji Iwai and Yoko Kanno to support NHK's reconstruction efforts in the areas hardest hit by the 2011 Great Eastern Japan Earthquake. An animated music video was created in commemoration of the two-year anniversary of the disaster and broadcast on NHK G.

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