Ishinomaki Wonder Alley(Miyagi)
Yappeshi Matsuri(Iwate)

Ishinomaki Wonder Alley, based in the shopping arcade in front of Ishinomaki station, is a place where everyone tries to respond to everyone's wishes. Painting pictures on the shutters, fixing signboards, making flowerbeds, making door　signs for temporary housing and exhibiting them before distributing them to residents, making fun for both children and adults, gathering around a hotpot of food, laughing out loud and shedding tears, banging drums, playing flutes and plucking guitar strings together while singing gibberish.... All sorts of people turn up, all sorts of things happen, and all sorts of ideas are born, each filled with an energy, courage and warmth. Furthermore in Yappeshi Matsuri artists from all over the country come together with local people and volunteers attempting to revive the traditional deer dance among other performing arts in the establishment of a new festival, to be held continuously from now