“Go To Shopping Street” lanterns in the shopping street PR preparation Fukuoka October 20, 18:46
The government supports the shopping streets that have been hit by the new coronavirus, and the participating shopping streets in Fukuoka City are in the process of hanging lanterns in preparation for the project that will start next week.
"Go To Shopping Street" is a campaign in which the government subsidizes up to 3 million yen for events held by the shopping street to regain its liveliness. Starting in October, 34 projects in 19 prefectures nationwide will be launched. It has been adopted.
One of them, the "Nakasu Town Association" project, where the neighborhood associations of Nakasu, a downtown area of Fukuoka City, gather, will open a restaurant that has taken measures against infection by raising about 500 lanterns along the main street from next week. On the 20th, the person in charge hung lanterns one by one to prepare for the event.
According to the federation, there are many restaurants in Nakasu, Fukuoka City that accompany entertainment such as snacks, and sales at most of them have fallen to less than half of the average year.
In addition, the Nakasu Festival, which is held at the end of October every year and is famous for the "woman mikoshi" where local women carry mikoshi, has been canceled except for the Shinto ritual, so I applied for participation in the campaign. about it.
Yoshihiro Hiyama, Vice Chairman of the Nakasu Town Association, said, "Since the number of customers is far away just because it is" Nakasu, "I hope that the city will be brighter as much as possible by telling us that we are taking measures against infectious diseases by lighting the lanterns." Was there.