"Cool mask" with ice packs popular Yamagata Yamabe Town Corona Measures May 17 18:06
The knit maker in Yamabe Town, Yamagata Prefecture, is selling cold cloth masks that give you a cool feeling, so that you can have a comfortable time even in hot weather, even before the temperature rises.
The cloth masks sold by "Knit Wise", a knit maker in Yamabe-cho, will stay cool for about an hour and a half if you put a cooling agent in your pocket.
At the head office in Yamabe town and two vending machines installed in Yamagata city, the temperature is set to 4 degrees, with a cooling agent, it sells for 1300 yen per piece.
Amid the decline in sales due to the new coronavirus, we began to work on making cloth masks in collaboration with other vendors in the town, and in the middle of March we released the first mask that was cooled by a vending machine.
However, the cool sensation lasted for only tens of seconds, so an improved version with a pocket to hold a cold pack was sold from 14th of this month.
According to the manufacturer, many people visited the vending machines in Yamabe Town on the 17th and bought them because they could not keep up even after replenishing them.
A woman who visited said, "My sister, who lives far away, wanted a mask, so I want to send it to her."
“Knit wise” Managing Director Katsuyuki Goto said, “There has been a lot of reaction since the end of March when the new coronavirus infection was confirmed in Yamagata. We would like people who walk in the heat to use it.” It was