Tomioka City, Gunma Prefecture, has prepared a hometown tax refund that allows you to experience the "one-day field manager" in order to promote the appeal of the Tomioka Silk Mill, which is a World Heritage Site.
The Tomioka Silk Mill is the first government-owned silk mill in Japan built in 1897 and is registered as a World Heritage Site.
This year, the number of visitors may decrease to half of last year's 440,000 due to the influence of the new coronavirus, so Tomioka City, which manages it, is trying to promote the appeal of the silk mill by calling it a "one-day manager". We have prepared a new hometown tax refund that you can experience.
When you become a "one-day manager", you can enter facilities that are not open to the public, such as the basement of the "Brunakan", which has been used as a food store since the Meiji era, and the "steam pot" where cocoons were boiled. I can.
In addition, you can experience making figurines using cocoons, and you will receive silk products as gifts.
Nobuaki Tajima, chief of the Tomioka Silk Mill Division in Tomioka City, said, "I want you to know more about what kind of facility the Silk Mill was by having people see the facilities that are not open to the public."
The experience of "1 day director" is for people who donated 250,000 yen or more, and the recruitment period and number of people will be decided based on the application situation.