"Honai Nara" Osaka Shinsegae "Zuboraya" Removing the signboard of paperback September 4, 5:13

The signboard of the paper-spotted pufferfish that has been popular as a symbol of the city of "Zuboraya", a long-established puffer restaurant in Osaka Shinsegae that was closed due to the influence of the new coronavirus, has been removed.

Zuboraya, a fugu restaurant in Osaka that was founded in 1918, is a long-established store that has just celebrated its 100th anniversary, but it will be closed on 15th of this month without resuming business due to the influence of the new coronavirus. It has become.



The signboard of the papier-mache decorated with the symbol of the store, Fugu, has been popular for many years as one of the landmarks that symbolize Osaka, along with the tourist attraction Tsutenkaku, but according to the operating company, from the midnight of the second day to the dawn of the third day. It has been removed.



A video shot of the removal was posted on the SNS, showing a sign of a papier-mache hanging on a crane truck on a truck.



According to the operating company, the signboard is stored in the warehouse, and future uses are undecided.



A banner with "Thank you for your patronage. Thank you for your patronage. Good luck and good luck! Goodbye" was put up at the store where the sign was gone, and the curtain went down to 100 years of history.

"very lonely"

People who visited Osaka Shinsekai noticed that the huge blowfish signboard that has been popular as a symbol of the city is gone, and they look up at the place where the signboard was often and stop and take pictures. It was.



A man in his 40's who works at a nearby restaurant said, "I've been watching this signboard for five years working in the New World. It was the most photo spot with Tsutenkaku in the background, so I'm lonely. It feels like a space has been created," he said, looking up at the space without the sign.



In addition, a university student in Kobe who visited for sightseeing said, "Shinsekai was the image of a blowfish signboard, so you can see it as soon as it disappears. I thought it was so sad that I came to see it, so it's lonely." ..



In addition, a man in his 40s from Kawauchi Nagano City said, “I miss my usual big blowfish. I thought Zuboraya was a standard blowfish restaurant in the Kansai region, but I don't think it would be affected by corona.” I was talking.