East Japan Earthquake

On 11 of March, there was very shocking earthquake named "East Japan Earthquake" happened.
In some area of Minami Awaji city, there were tsunami warning announced, and people living in the area had to escape.

Fortunately, peoples and buildings in Minami Awaji city have been all safe at this moment, and most of them are returning to their daily lives.

However, because some of foreign media (TV, newspaper) have been broadcasting the incidents, specially about disaster of Fukushima nuclear power plant, a bit exaggeratingly with little knowledges of regional distance, many foreign people even living in Kansai area or southern parts have been escaping to their home countries.
About figure of Japan, there are about 3,000km from north to south, and the location of earthquake happened is 800 to 1,000 km from north. Kansai area is located in 1,000 km distance from south.
The influence of disaster of Fukushima nuclear power plant has been covering 20 - 30 km from the plant, so Kansai people don't need to take care too much about the affects.

Please do not get swayed by overmuch broadcasts, and keep your cool judgement.

If you need information about this earthquake, I might support to get information.

"Onion Kitchen"

There are several kinds of so-called "local development activities" like local festival, introducing industries from urban area and local food.
"Onion Kitchen" is one of that kinds of activities in Awaji Island, and also one of the few examples of best practice.


Onion Kitchen is managed by MinamiAwaji Commerce and Industry Association.
Onion Kitchen has now two main selling products, one is "Onion Chips" and another is "Onion Pound Cake".
Onion Chips has got prize of Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in 2010.


Onion Chips are made of, of course, Awaji onions! They are processed very specially, so you can enjoy onion-itself taste and flavor.
One package includes 15g, and price is 250yen.  It feels a little bit expensive, but provides us a premium snack taste.


You can buy them through the website and at the place of UZUSHIO roadside station.
Please try it!


Photo: Onion Chips

Announcement: I stop my blog activity until the end of June, 2010.

Thank you very much for your accessing this blog!
I'd like to annouce that I have stopped my blog updating activities untile the end of June 2010, because of my physical move from Tokyo to Hyogo Pref.
I will start again from July 2010!

See you in July 2010!

"Flower and Green Fair" 20th Mar. to 30th May.

This is not a MinamiAwaji event, but very big and popular one in Awaji Island.
"Flower and Green Fair 2010" has been held at Awaji Yume Butai located in the northern part of Awaji Island.

The event webiste is here → http://www.awajihanahaku2010.jp/index.htm

The theme is "A New Colaboration of human beings and nature."
I cannot believe that there are no English or Chinese instruction on the web even thought such a big event...

Anyway, through the period of the event, there are many kinds of exhibitions, music concerts, contests and symposium.
For example, in the next weekend (27th and 28th Mar.), a cycling festival is going to be planed on Akashi Kaikyo Bridge.

The event calendar is here →　http://www.awajihanahaku2010.jp/eventtop_weekly.htm

Please visite and enjoy it!

Awaji Island Roll Playing Game "Onion Quest" will start from 28, Teb.

From 28 Feb. 2010 to 31 Mar. 2010, the Awaji Island roll playing game "Onion Quest" will be excuted.
According to the official website of "Onion Quest,"

step1: entry to the mobile website of "Onion Quest" by QR code scanner with your mobile phone,
step2: play a game by following instructions on the mobile web, sometimes with clearing real missions,
step3: and finally, you might win some prizes by ending whole missions.

The game is constructed based on the fictious story that Awaji Island has faces crisis of invasion by some dark sides, and you are the person to save Awaji Island from that crisis.
There are animated characters prepared.

Hyogo Pref, Honshu-Shikoku Highway agency, Hyogo Tourism Agency and some other organizations have sponsered this project as one of the Awaji Island tourism activities.

Unfortunately, at this time, there are provided only in Japanese, so I try to ask any other language availability.

"Whole Awaji-Island Museum"

Hyogo Pref.Gov. has been excuting the project "Whole Awaji-Island Museum" since 2009.
The website url is http://web.pref.hyogo.jp/aw01/aw01_1_000000061.html (but only in Japanese).

In this project, the gov. has invited "treasure of Awaji-Island for you" from citizens, and those treasures have been opend on the web.
There are various kinds of treasures; monument, specific person, temple, shirine, Jizo...

Recently in Japan, the sightseeing trend has been shifted from group tour to very personal tour. And those local monument, temple or some interesting personality have been looked as local resources for recent tourists.
So that I have been interested in the project of Hyogo Pref. Gov. of "Whole Awaji-Island Museum."
However, ! as there are no maps, no detail address information with each treasure,  anybody other than people who live there can reach those location...

And finally, I (as a member of NPO "Minami-Awaji Information Community") has created the google maps version of the whole Awaji-Island Museum on this website.
(now on the way)

Please visite this website, and visite the "treasure" by yourselves!

↓those are some of "treasure"

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15th of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake

Don't forget Jan. 17th, 1995.
At the time of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, I was a high school student and living in Minamiawaji area.  The day was the next day of the national university entrance examination of myself, and I was sleeping deeply because of such early morning.
If the day was come in a day earlier, I was stayed in Sannomiya, Kobe city where had been destroyed by earthquake and fire, I might have been not living now.

There are many event planned around Kobe city and Awaji Island, so please visit and learn that earthquake.