We host art events as well as vegetables! ? “Roadside Station Tagami”, a small town with a population of 10,000, that breaks the limit with 600,000 visitors a year.“Roadside Station Tagami”, which is popular for its attractive design, wins the 2024 Good Design Award Roadside Station Tagami Cooperative Association Press release: October 31, 2024 We host not only vegetables but also art events! ? “Roadside Station Tagami”, a small town with a population of 10,000, has a limit-breaking 600,000 visitors per year. “Roadside Station Tagami”, which is popular for its attractive design, won the 2024 Good Design Award.
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summary page https://www.g-mark.org/gallery/winners/26094?text=たがみ 2024 Good Design Award Jury Comments A warm roadside station that values local resources and adds modern value. We offer a variety of menu items that both local residents and visitors can enjoy, such as bamboo shoot digging and umeboshi making workshops, as well as plum soft-serve ice cream made from local specialties and Tare-katsudon with tagami pork. This place, which is visited by about 600,000 people a year, functions as the town’s hub and is a popular place to rediscover the charm of the area and deepen connections. We would like to evaluate it as a roadside station that contributes to regional revitalization. Roadside Station Tagami
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/151404/1/151404-1-d528f9325cd3ed4416745b23ab68090f-1500×1075.jpg We actively promote community-based activities based on the concept of “Gentle Roadside Station Tagami”. Opened in October 2020. The building is a “community collaboration facility building” consisting of a shop selling agricultural products, original products, bento boxes, processed products, and specialty paulownia products, as well as a popular restaurant (Ohiru to Oyatsu) that offers menus related to Tagami Town. ”, there is an “Information Dissemination and Rest Facility Building” that is used for breaks, information browsing, workshops, etc. Furthermore, next to the parking lot, there is a large open space with a roof called “Relaxation Plaza”, where you can enjoy the festival “Ryoyo Tagami” held with junior high school students, the town event “Tagami Bamboo Boo”, and the “Karakara Market” where producers and manufacturers set up stalls. , we have held various events so far. The store is designed with a focus on using attractive local products, and is visited by approximately 600,000 people a year. “Roadside Station Tagami” is “friendly” to people both in the town and outside the town. Roadside Station Tagami Website https://michinoeki-tagami.jp/
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https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/151404/1/151404-1-cb420b5760a0f3e59f02ecc1eccb5c0a-3543×2657.jpg “Tagami Bamboo Boo” is a bamboo forest art project using abandoned bamboo forests Together with the Youth Division of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, we will be holding a bamboo forest art event to maintain an abandoned bamboo forest, which is a local issue, and involve a total of 1,000 people from the town, schools, and
surrounding areas! The number of visitors was 2.8 times (2.8 million) the 10,000 townspeople. In 2023, it will be held at seven locations in the town for about a month from September to October. ・What is the Good Design Award
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/151404/1/151404-1-f9261569e9616a1373c943ac4224e72c-2020×800.png This is Japan’s leading design evaluation and promotion activity, inheriting the Good Design Product Selection System established in 1957. As a global design award in which many domestic and
international companies and organizations participate, it is held every year with the aim of improving the quality of life and using design to solve social issues and themes. The award symbol, the “G Mark”, is widely known as a symbol of excellent design. Good Design Award Website https://www.g-mark.org/ ・Roadside Station Tagami Overview ■Address: 3072-1, Oaza Haragasakishinden, Tagami-cho, Minamikanbara-gun, Niigata 959-1503 ■TEL: 0256-47-0661 ■Closed days: [Shop/Dining room] Second Tuesday of every month, 12/31-1/2
[Information dissemination rest facility building] None ■Business hours: [Shop/Dining room] April to November / 9:30 to 17:00 December to March / 10:00 to 16:00 [Lunch time] 11:00-15:00 [Information dissemination rest facility building] 24 hours ■Admission fee: Free ■Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michinoeki.tagami/ [About Tagami Town] Population: Approximately 10,000 people. A small town located in the center of Niigata Prefecture, surrounded by countryside (Echigo Plain) and the Niitsu Hills, full of greenery and nature. Adjacent to Niigata City, Kamo City, Gosen City, Sanjo City, etc. Yutagami Onsen is famous within the prefecture. The commuting rate is 23.4% to Niigata City, 16.9% to Sanjo City, and 16.0% to Kamo City (2010 census). JR stations are Hanyuta Station and Tagami Station. The town flower is hydrangea. Gomadoyama is the symbol of the town. There is a legend about Dankuro, a raccoon dog (there are various theories).