While the schedule for the first semester of the secondary exams for national and public universities has begun, at Miyazaki University in Miyazaki City, the schedule overlapped with the send-off match for the WBC = World Baseball Classic Japan National Team.
There was some concern about securing accommodations for the students preparing for the exam, but it seems that major confusion was avoided thanks to early efforts by the university.
However, there are some students who have trouble finding accommodation nearby.
On the 24th, many prospective students and parents visited the Kibana Campus of Miyazaki University in Miyazaki City to check the directions to the university and the location of the classrooms.
At the University of Miyazaki, approximately 1,000 applicants, more than 60% of those who take the exam in the first semester, come from outside the prefecture each year.
In a normal year, you don't have to worry about finding a place to stay, but this year it's different.
This is because the send-off match for the WBC Japan national team will be held on the same schedule at Sun Marine Stadium Miyazaki near the university.
The University of Miyazaki, feeling a sense of urgency about securing lodgings for examinees, started discussions with the prefecture and the hotel and inn association from last year.
I had the inn that cooperated with me set up a "special quota" for examinees, and announced it on the university's website.
Even so, at the end of last month when the application for the second exam began, the "special frame" was filling up one after another.
Driving school provides accommodation
"Miyazaki Umeda Gakuen" in Miyazaki City, which operates a driving school, etc., learned that it was becoming difficult for students preparing for entrance examinations to Miyazaki University to secure accommodation nearby, and provided accommodation for driver's license training camps.
We secured 14 rooms by making adjustments such as having users at the driver's license training camp move to other rooms.
On the 25th, the exam started at 9:00 a.m., but considering the traffic jam caused by the WBC, the candidates had breakfast early and left for the university at 7:30 in a car prepared by the driving school.
A mother in her 50s who had come from Tokyo to accompany her said, "We were able to get a hotel in the city, but it was expensive at 70,000 yen per night for the two of us, so we booked it here. We also have a pick-up service, so we can send her off without worry. I was talking.
Shinji Tanaka, the manager of the lodging facility, said, "I received 40 to 50 inquiries immediately after providing the room, and I made adjustments as much as possible. I want students to do their best and do their best."
At Miyazaki University, about 1,000 people take the exam from outside the prefecture every year, but on the 25th and 26th, a special bus will be operated from JR Miyazaki Station to the university, and according to the university, no major problems have occurred.
New corona accommodation facilities are also disinfected and rooms are provided
Hiroshi Tazume, secretary-general of the Miyazaki Prefecture Hotel Ryokan Life Sanitation Association, who was in charge of securing accommodation for students preparing for the exam, said that in the final stage, a hotel in Miyazaki City, which had become an accommodation and treatment facility for the new coronavirus, offered to provide rooms. I look back on the fact that raising the
According to the prefecture, the infection of the new corona had just subsided, and I was fortunate that there were no people staying at this hotel for medical treatment.
The hotel is said to have provided all 50 rooms after thoroughly disinfecting them.
Secretary General Tazume said, "With an unprecedented operating situation, at one point, not only Miyazaki City but also nearby hotels were fully booked. Facilities that did not provide rooms for WBC cooperated. So, it seems that there were many cases where examinees who had only been able to secure lodgings far away had to rebook their reservations."
Candidates
A student from Tokyo said, "Everywhere was full, so I had a hard time finding an inn in Miyazaki. They came and I was able to come smoothly.Everyone treats me warmly, so I want to do my best."
In addition, the mother of a student who came from Kagoshima Prefecture said, "I have an exam tomorrow, but I couldn't make a reservation for consecutive nights. Today, I will return to Kagoshima and drive to the university tomorrow morning. I am."
Some students stayed at a facility that was an hour away by car.
Some applicants were unable to secure accommodation in Miyazaki City and had no choice but to stay in Nichinan City, which is about an hour's drive from the university.
Airi Okuyama, a third-year high school student in Aichi Prefecture, who is taking the entrance exam for the Department of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki.
After deciding to apply to Miyazaki University, she looked for accommodation in Miyazaki City, but most of them were already full, and even if there were vacancies, there were only expensive rooms that cost more than 50,000 yen per person per night. about it.
Under these circumstances, I learned on SNS that this Nichinan accommodation facility was accepting reservations with transportation to the examination venue, and took a room.
The owner, Tomoki Tajika, will drive the car himself.
Mr. Okuyama said, "Even though I was a complete stranger, I was even picked up and dropped off just because I was an examinee, and it made me want to go to Miyazaki University again."
Some students fly from Fukuoka to Miyazaki
According to a major preparatory school in Fukuoka Prefecture, only about half of the more than 20 students who will take the entrance exam for Miyazaki University were able to secure accommodation in Miyazaki City, and some of them were unable to secure a hotel nearby. Despite the start of the exam in the morning, some students are heading to Miyazaki by plane from Fukuoka.
It seems that the confusion that was feared was largely avoided by the efforts of those involved, but the burden on examinees has increased more than in previous years.
Vice President of Miyazaki University "I have done the best measures"
Vice President Kenichi Nakabayashi, who is in charge of entrance examinations at the University of Miyazaki, said, "As soon as we learned about the schedule overlap, we did our best as a university. On the day of the event, please be safe and take care of yourself earlier than usual. I want you to come," he says.
The WBC send-off match starts in the afternoon, but there may be many examinees who leave their homes or hotels early in the morning because they are worried about traffic jams.
Miyazaki University will prepare a waiting room for examinees from 7:00 am on the 25th.
Governor Kono "I want to avoid confusion somehow"
Governor Kono of Miyazaki Prefecture said, "It may be difficult to secure lodgings near the university, but at least we haven't had a situation where we can't make a reservation, so I don't think it's a big problem. It will be dealt with, and the number of buses will be increased accordingly, so I would like to somehow avoid confusion."