2014年05月01日
『釜石呑ん兵衛横丁と渋谷のんべい横丁』との 姉妹交流
4年目の復興支援.....今回5店舗の店主と、お客様含めて10名で出発
新幹線で新花巻駅に下車....JR釜石線に乗り換えると、宮沢賢治の童話
『銀河鉄道の夜』をモチーフしたSL列車が、運行開始(JRが復興支援として観光の後押し)
桜が満開の民話の里、遠野駅を通過し、列車は急上昇しながら何十ヶ所のトンネルを、
通り抜き、険し山の峠を越えて釜石市へ
早速、街に出て津波襲来の跡地を見て回り、横丁の皆様とも挨拶、風も無くあちらこちらと桜が咲き、
お花見も盛んのようだ。
昨年よりも建物も増え復興が進んでいる。
皆様の笑顔も前向きで『亡くなった方々の分迄、皆頑張りますよ~』との、強いメッセージ!!
I went to Kamaishi-City in Iwate Prefecture with other owners and some customers.
Our "Shibuya Nonbei Yokocho" and "Kamaishi Nonbei Yokocho" have sister Yokochos reration. We've been there 4th times since 2011... Kamaishi had hit tsunami when we had the Great East Japan Earthquake. We're keeping touch them to the earthquakes reconstruction support.
That time we caught a steam locomotive to go Kamaishi station that design inspiration from Kenji Miyazawa's world(he is well-known Japanese author was born in Iwate) . It is one of support for back to normal by JR.
We ware passing through many tunnels and awsome cherry blossoms again and again, over the mountains, then we arrived.
Companies from sister yokochos took us traces of tsunami attack, there was new building and blooming flowers, I felt there is surely getting better than last year!
We had great time to see them with cherry blossoms.
All of Kamaishi people is earthquake survivors as we knew, they never forget tsunami but they were smiling with positive words under the tree, that's why SAKURA =cherry blossoms is one of natinal flower in Japan.