Going back about 10 days, I would like to give you a brief report on a Fukushima product exhibition I visited at the Hotel Listel Shinjuku on October 28 and 29.
The venue was a business hotel just a few minutes’ walk from Shinjuku 3-chome subway station.
Aizu’s “Listel Inawashiro” was originally famous as a ski inn since the Showa era. It has since developed into one of the best all-season resort hotels in the area. I have used the hotel several times and know it well, but the announcement of this event was the first time I had heard that the same company and the same Listel brand hotel also existed in Tokyo. Later, I found out that there is another “Listel Hamanako” in Shizuoka Prefecture.
Returning to Shinjuku, “Listel Shinjuku” is a small business hotel. I guess this event was held because of the connection with Fukushima Prefecture through the “Listel Inawashiro”. I personally like the modest, handmade atmosphere of Fukushima local citizenship, but it is not a very convenient location, so I am a little concerned about attracting visitors to the event.
Festival hall seems to be a restaurant of the hotel on the first floor.
As with the size of the hotel, the size of the event is compact. Come to think of it, it would be a big deal to hold the event on this scale in a place where many passersby would enter, so I guess this is the right size and right thing to do.
The large Fukushima Prefecture consists of the three regions of Hamadori, Nakadori, and Aizu, but in its compactness, various products from all the prefectures were brought in, and it was quite a tour de force.
But I am sorry! I can’t add to my luggage this time because I have a stopover later on.
I apologize in my mind that I will surely buy them on my next trip, and head for another event being held at the same time as the product exhibition in the same hotel.
This was the main purpose of my visit, even though I had no plans to shop.
The exhibition of Mr. Kenko Hoshi, a local photographer of Oku-Aizu.
Mr. Hoshi has long been making efforts to promote Oku-Aizu through his Tadami Line railroad landscape photography works, and he is name is well known among photographers who take pictures of the Tadami Line. He is also known for his leading role in the self-produced documentary film “Railway in the Mist: The Man Who Took 300 Days of Photographs of the Tadami Line“! And fortunately I could see and talk with the person who he is at the galvery lary!
Although I refrained from taking pictures of the exhibition itself, I was strongly impressed both by the beautiful Tadami Line scenery and by Mr. Hoshi, who is in his mid-seventies and still being full of energy.
I had wanted to get a copy of the Oku-Aizu-Tadami Line 2024 Chronicle Calendar for a long time, but Mr. Hoshi personally sold it (with his autograph!) at this event. It was a very successful visit to the exhibition.
That’s all for the “Kilroy was here” at the end of October.
