Regarding "Mogami River Boat Descent" in Tozawa Village, one of Yamagata Prefecture's tourist specialties, the operating company is trying to recover tourism demand by strengthening measures against infection with the new coronavirus, and seats on some boats. Was remodeled from face-to-face to positive, and will start operation as early as next month.
"Mogami River Boat Descent" in Tozawa Village, Yamagata Prefecture is a tourist attraction that is visited by many tourists from Japan and abroad because you can enjoy the magnificent scenery such as autumn leaves and snowy scenery throughout the year.
However, due to the influence of the new coronavirus, the number of users last year was more than 33,000, which was less than 40% of the number of adults.
"Mogamikyo Basho Line Sightseeing", which operates this boat descent for more than half a century, will remodel two of the 16 boats in an attempt to recover tourism demand by strengthening measures against infection with the new coronavirus. became.
Specifically, the face-to-face seats will be remodeled forward, the capacity will be reduced from 60 to 32, which is almost half, and partitions will be provided for each seat to prevent flying. We plan to start operations in March.
Fujio Suzuki, president of "Mogamikyo Basho Line Sightseeing," said, "Because it is a ship that combines safety and security with measures against corona, we hope that people in the prefecture and neighboring prefectures will use it first."