On Saturday, October 12th and Sunday, October 13th, 2024, a regular performance of Yokoo Kabuki, which boasts a history of approximately 200 years, will be held in Inasa-cho, Hamana-ku, Hamamatsu City.

This traditional performing art, which began in the Edo period, is a full-scale stage performance by local residents that attracts many audiences every year. Yokoo Kabuki is characterized by its close relationship with the audience, and the enjoyment of cultural experiences such as Kakegoe and Ohineri.

In this article, we will introduce in detail the history and appeal of Yokoo Kabuki, as well as the highlights of the regular performances held in October.

Hamamatsu is a city rich in nature with the sea, mountains, and lakes.

After being soothed by the colorful flowers and green forest, fill your stomach with healthy food and let go of your daily stress. Take a leisurely stroll around the photogenic spots with your camera in hand and take a special photo.

Enjoy Hamamatsu course with great value excursion tickets

How about a leisurely trip with a great value excursion ticket that allows you unlimited rides on trains and buses around Hamamatsu and Lake Hamana during the campaign period? The local people you meet at the destinations you visit and the time you spend traveling are sure to become unforgettable memories of your trip.

Hamanatto is a fermented food made by fermenting soybeans with koji mold and aging them for over a year.

Although it is called “natto,” it is actually a member of the miso family. It is said to have a high antioxidant effect, about 1.7 times that of regular stringy natto, and about 20 times that of firm tofu.

The antioxidant properties of Hamanatto are said to have the effect of “suppressing active oxygen that has negative effects on health” and “supporting immunity.” It is said that it may have played a role in the secret to Tokugawa Ieyasu’s longevity!

You can eat it as is or use it as a seasoning.

There are many ways to enjoy Hamanatto depending on how you arrange it.

This month’s recommendation is “Yamaya Soy Sauce”, which continues to make “Hama-natto” using the traditional method🍚

Suzuki Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co., Ltd. is a musical instrument manufacturer whose founder, Mr. Manji Suzuki, began manufacturing harmonicas 71 years ago.

Suzuki Musical Instruments Manufacturing’s musical instruments are designed and created to bring happiness to everyone who enjoys music, including providing musical instruments to educational settings. Among these products, the main product, the Melodion, was developed by the company as Japan’s first keyboard harmonica.

Suzuki Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co., Ltd. is the only manufacturer that still manufactures keyboard harmonicas in Japan. In addition, our ingenious musical instruments, such as recorders, electronic musical instruments, and percussion instruments, are supported by music lovers both in Japan and abroad.

” Make you happy with music.”

This month’s recommended product is “Suzuki Musical Instruments Manufacturing”♪♪

Hamanako Gourmet Park is located in front of the Hamamatsu Nishi Inter entrance.

Hamamatsu’s specialty products are lined up inside the store. Hamanako Gourmet Park is a drive-in facility that is often used by tour bus passengers, but in 2019 we opened Hamamatsu Pudding Priful on the premises to make it easier for locals to visit.

Supervised by sweets producer Mr. Hiroshi Tokoro, who developed Pastel Smooth Pudding. Hamamatsu pudding, made with carefully selected local ingredients, is a pudding that is as pleasing to the eye as it is to the taste.

In 2024, we will open Patisserie Financier, a specialty store for French baked goods, Financier, inside Hamamatsu Pudding. Hamamatsu Shusse Financier, a gluten-free baked confectionery made with rice flour, is attracting attention.

This month’s recommendation is “Hamanako Gourmet Park” where you can find Hamamatsu’s delicious food♪

“Unagiimo” is a Hamamatsu-produced sweet potato that is grown using powdered fertilizer made from the remains of eel bones and heads left over from the processing of eels.

The aged “eel sweet potato” increases its sweetness by baking it, reaching a sugar content of about 40 degrees.

Sweets such as pudding, soft serve ice cream, and dorayaki that make use of the original ingredients are very popular. You can purchase the products at the Unagiimo Store stores in Hamamatsu Station, Hamanako Service Area, Togoshi Ginza Shopping District in Tokyo, and some products can be purchased by mail order.

▲Unagiimo Store Hamamatsu Station Store

▲Unagiimo Store Hamanako Service Area Store

This month’s recommended sweets will be introduced using “Unagiimo”🍦

Bell Marine, located in Kosai City, Shizuoka Prefecture, is a marine leisure business that sells and rents boats and watercraft, as well as repairs, maintenance and storage, offers courses for acquiring marine licenses, sells marine supplies at its shop, and experiences marine sports. This is a company that does a wide range of things.

At Bellmarine, you can experience marine activities such as flyboarding, hoverboarding, banana boats, tubing, wakeboarding, wakesurfing, and cruising.

Among them, the “flyboard”, which uses water pressure to fly through the air, is a place where even beginners can enjoy it with confidence, as the staff who have won the All Japan Championship will kindly and carefully teach you. Why not try a new marine activity this summer with the experienced and proven “Bellmarine”?

This month’s recommendation is “Belmarine” where you can enjoy a wide range of marine leisure activities.

Founded 137 years ago.

Kogiku, a long-established Japanese confectionery shop in Hamamatsu, reopened two years ago as a factory direct sales store in Kanda-cho, Chuo-ku, Hamamatsu City, with a stylish, modern Japanese atmosphere so that younger generations can easily enjoy Japanese sweets.

The store has been renovated to a “drive-through” style, which is unusual for a confectionery store, and “We have received feedback from regular customers and users alike, such as “It’s convenient to be able to purchase the confectionery you want without having to get out of your car.” says Ms. Iyona Kamei, who is in charge of planning and manufacturing.

After marrying the eldest son of the founding family, Ms. Kamei jumped into the confectionery industry from medical administration. In response to the words of the current president, “I would like to see a breath of fresh air,” the company is working to develop and manufacture new products while preserving tradition.

In this month’s recommendation, we’d like to introduce Kogiku, a confectionery shop that continues to take on new challenges while valuing tradition.

In 2001, Nagasaka Bee Farm moved from the Mikkabi shopping district to a new location along the shores of Lake Hamana, and this year marks the 89th anniversary of its founding.

“Nagasaka Bee Farm”, which is visited by approximately 450,000 tourists a year in a store the size of a convenience store, is known for its smiling staff, courteous customer service, and delicious honey made from local Mikkabi mandarin orange flowers. It has a wide variety of original processed products and is known for its high customer satisfaction.

From inside the store, you can see a lush courtyard where you can watch the natural activities of bees, and there is also plenty of playfulness, such as quizzes that are sure to pique the interest of visitors.

“Nagasaka Bee Farm” welcomes visitors with easy-to-understand product pop-ups and sample samples, and the “honey soft serve ice cream” that you can take out is also very popular.

The sweetness and richness of the vanilla soft-serve ice cream is so sweet that the honey is kneaded into the cream, and the final touch is “Oi-honey!!” The staff will show off the oi-honey right in front of you. This is a huge hit, with up to 2,000 units sold in one day.

This month’s recommendation is the popular store in Mikkabi-cho, “Nagasaka Bee Farm”♪

“The history of “Asashio” began in the 1960s when my grandfather-in-law, who ran a whitebait processing factory, opened a boat rental company to let as many people as possible enjoy fishing. “I wanted people to eat delicious food, so I began serving them. In the 1975s, after training with my father-in-law, I started an inn business in response to requests from fishing customers who wanted to stay overnight.” Ms. Mizuki Yamada is the young proprietress.

Approximately 40 years after opening, we have continued to operate on the shores of Lake Hamana as an inn where you can enjoy delicious food.

There are a total of 11 guest rooms. This family-run inn with a homey atmosphere has many repeat customers, and is popular as a place where you can enjoy meals with a spectacular view of Lake Hamana. From April 2021, we have started offering reservation-based lunches in completely private rooms.

This month’s recommendation is “Live Fish Inn Asashio”♪

This year marks the 77th anniversary of Showa Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co., Ltd., the only musical instrument manufacturer in Japan that exclusively deals with harmonicas.

The founder, Mr. Rikuhei Suyama, worked as a banker and trained as a harmonica craftsman, before starting a harmonica factory in Sunayama-cho, Hamamatsu City with three friends in 1947.

After that, the second generation, Mr. Yoshinori Suyama, developed a new way to preserve the tradition and let more people know about the appeal of the harmonica as a musical instrument, so that people could easily pick up the harmonica as a souvenir from Hamamatsu. I did. As a souvenir symbolizing Hamamatsu, the city of music, it is sold inside Hamamatsu Station and service areas in Shizuoka Prefecture.

Currently, the third generation of the company, Ms. Fumiko Suyama, works with her family to carefully manufacture each harmonica by hand, using the same craftsmanship that has remained unchanged since the company’s founding.

I have been devoted to harmonica for 77 years. This month’s recommended product is “Showa Musical Instrument Manufacturing Co., Ltd.”♪