Aizu Wakamatsu

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Published by Aizuwakamatsu City

September 2019

A TOAST WITH ’S SAKE Radiation Doses as of August 15th AizuS e i s y u DeK a n p a i Radiation Doses at Various Places in the City 会津清酒で乾杯 Measurement Measured Measurement Measured Location Value Location Value We’ll have a simultaneous toast with Aizu sake. Aizu Wakamatsu CityHall 0.08 Kita Public Hall 0.09 After the toast, stalls will be open where you can taste Aizu Wakamatsu Kozashi-machi Station 0.06 Takaku 0.09 Higashiyama Kozashi-machi Aizu sake and side dishes. Elementary School 0.07 Kitashigo 0.06 Iimoriyama ▼ Time: Tuesday, October 1st. Simultaneous toast: Mountain Tourist 0.05 Kawahigashi-machi 0.09 Information Center Takatsuka 6pm. *Reception open from 5pm. Aizu sake stalls: 6- Ikki-machi Tsuruga 0.07 Kawahigashi-machi 0.06 Kumanodo Kawahigashi- 8pm. Matsunaga Danchi 0.06 machi Hirota 0.06 Kitaaizu-machi ▼Place: Tsurugajo Obiguruwa (by the restrooms and Yanagiwara-machi 0.06 Shimoarai 0.11 Kawanami Monden-machi 0.07 Elementary 0.07 v-shaped steps) Niidera School Minami Public Hall 0.08 Oto Public Hall 0.05 ◇Contact: Aizuwakamatsu Sake Brewery Coopera- Aizu General Minato Citizen's Athletic Park 0.09 Center 0.05 tive (☎0242-26-1515), Commerce & Industry Division Unit: Microsievert/h Environment and Community Services Division ☎0242-39-1221 (☎0242-39-1252)

Opinions, Suggestions, Change of Address, This newsletter is published by Language Assistance Subscriptions the Public Relations Section of City Hall, and is comprised of Open: 9am to 5:45pm translated excerpts from the Phone:0242-27-3703 Fax: 0242-27-3704 Phone: 0242-39-1206 Fax: 0242-39-1402 monthly Japanese newsletter, Email: [email protected] Email: “Shisei Dayori”. Holidays: Every Monday, 1st and 3rd [email protected]..jp Sunday,and national holidays

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PREPARE FOR DISASTERS ▼In case of an earthquake S a i g a i NiS o n a e y o u 災害に備えよう ◎Protect yourself until the shaking stops. ◎When September 1st of every year is Disaster Prevention the shaking stops, check that the gas is turned off, Day. In recent years, has faced some large- and prepare for evacuating while being cautious of scale natural disasters, such as last year’s torrential surroundings. ◎ Gather earthquake information rains in western Japan, and the 2011 Great East Japan from radio, etc. ◎ Pay attention to news earthquake. In order to reduce injuries due to concerning disasters and evacuation from disaster disasters, it is important for every one of us to information e-mail service, etc. prepare for disasters on a habitual basis. Take this * ------* ◇ ( opportunity to check if there is a potentially Contact: Crisis Management Division ☎0242- ) dangerous area where you live, and where the 39-1227 evacuation areas are. You should also confirm the evacuation route from your home to the evacuation MULTILINGUAL INFORMATION DESK area, as well as how you will contact family members & ENGLISH MINI-TOURS T a g e n g o Informaition D e s k in the case of a natural disaster. 多言語インフォメーションデスク E i g o M i n i t s u a - Stock Up Supplies at Home &英語ミニツアー ▼ In the event that a large-scale natural disaster Date: Sunday, September 22nd, 9am-3pm ▼ occurs, you should have stockpiled goods and an Place: Tsurugajo Castle Grounds ▼ emergency bag/survival kit prepared. To prepare a Details: tourist information as well as tours of household stockpile, you may prepare one in Tsurugajo Castle will be provided ▼ advance for emergency use, or you may buy extras For: foreigners ◇ of everyday supplies to be set aside. Sign ups & Contact: Aizu Wakamatsu International ( ※ Example of Stockpile Goods Association ☎0242-27-3703 Closed Mondays and ) ◎Food (3 days’ worth) the 1st and 3rd Sundays of each month ◎Water (3L per person per day x 3 days) etc. Example of Emergency Bag Supplies MARKETPLACE FESTIVAL S h i z y o u M a t s u r i ◎Wet wipes ◎Flashlight 市場まつり ▼ ◎Regularly taken medicine ◎Radio etc. Date: Sunday, September 29th, 7am-11am ▼ Actions to Take in the Case That a Disaster Occurs Place: Public District Wholesale Market (Kosetsu Chiho Oroshi Urishijo) ▼In case of heavy rain ▼ ◎ ◎ ◎ When rainfall becomes extreme, gather Details: Sale of fresh produce Tuna-filleting ◎ information from TV and radio. ◎If you receive demonstration & sale Mock auction experience, evacuation advisories from disaster information e- etc. ◇ mail service, early warning e-mail (area e-mail), or Contact: Aizuwakamatsu City Public District ( ) FM Aizu, etc. begin evacuation quickly. ◎When Wholesale Market Association ☎0242-25-1171 evacuating, evacuate away from rivers. Additionally, stay away from areas marked as FRUITS AND FLOWERS FESTIVAL フルーツ&フラワーフェスティバル warning zones for mudslides. Fresh agricultural goods and flowers from the Kita

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Aizu area will be sold directly by the growers. There stopping for lunch and short breaks, and arrived at the will be a workshop to make rice flour pizzas. area’s honjin (designated inn for the daimyo) at 5pm, ▼ Date and Time: Sunday, September 15th; walking an average of 40km per day. 9:00am~1:00pm During the Sankin-kotai procession, they would ▼Location: Hotaru no Mori Park (Shimoarai, Kita walk while holding distinct spears and battle Aizu Machi) standards, so that one could immediately tell which ◇Inquiries: Fruits and Flowers Festival Jikko Iinkai clan they belonged to, with horses and birds that the (Fruits and Flowers Festival Executive Committee, shogun bestowed on them. In the center, the daimyo Umemiya- san ☎0242-58-2377) or Kita Aizu-shisho would walk with the dog he received from the shogun Machizukuri Suishin-ka (Aizu Wakamatsu City as a pet, and some would swing or throw their spears Hall, Kita Aizu Branch, Town Development as a performance to entertain people on the roadside. Promotion Division ☎0242-58-1805)

COLUMN: MANABEKO-KUN’S

HISTORY NOTEBOOK The Aizu Matsuri will Koramu ManabekokunnoR e k i s h i Zakk i t y o u begin starting from コラム まなべこくんの歴史雑記帳 Saturday, September In this column, we introduce miscellaneous 21st. Let’s enjoy the knowledge relating to Aizu’s history and culture. Contact the Culture Division (☎0242-39-1305)for atmosphere. any inquiries. THE THEME THIS TIME IS “THE SANKIN-KOTAI PROCESSION” Aizu Fugado Events Sankin Koutai No Gyouretsu 「参勤交代の行列」 ☎0242-27-0900 Date (Sankin-kotai was a system during the Edo Period in and Event Fee Contact Time which the daimyo, the leaders of each clan, were 9/8 Cultural 22nd Citizens’ required to take turns serving in Edo.) (Sun) Division Music Free 12:30 (☎0242-39- The centerpiece of the Aizu Matsuri, the Hanko Gathering pm 1305) Gyoretsu Procession, is modeled after the sankin- All Seats Aizu Theater Aizu Theater kotai procession of the Edo Period. At first, the 9/11 Reserved Appreciation Appreciation (Wed) General: Group procession passed through routes like Ouchijuku’s Group 340th 6:30 5,000 yen (☎0242-29- Shimotsuke Kaido Route; however, from Aizu’s Meeting ”Futar pm Student: 8608) i Musical O.G.” third daimyo on, they used the Shirakawa Kaido 2,000 yen Route which passes through Akai and Hara. The 2,000 yen Friends of Shirakawa Kaido Route was 260km from (*Same- Meiji 9/12 28th Meiji day University Wakamatsu to Edo, a journey of five nights and six (Thurs) University tickets Aizu Area days or six nights and seven days, which 600 people 6:30 Mandolin Club increase Chapter ( participated in. When the third daimyo, Matsudaira pm Concert by 500 Hayashi- yen) san☎090- Masakata, first came to Aizu on the Sankin-kotai, he 4313-4813) left Edo and arrived in Wakamatsu Castle after five 60th All-Aizu Eiwa nights and six days, staying the night in modern-day 9/19 Elementary Elementary (Thurs) and Middle School(Endo- Free Kasukabe (Saitama), Oyama (Tochigi), Kitsuregawa 9:30 School Music san ☎0242- (Tochigi), Shirakawa, and Fukura. The schedule was am Festival (Part 22-2364) strict: departing at 5am, they walked for 10 hours, 2: Ensemble)

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Date and Time Event Fee Contact 9/20 (Fri) Curator Lecture Writers of 1:30pm Tohoku⑥ Takeda Hisayoshi General: Aizu Aizu 9/22 1,000 yen Citizens’ Citizens’ Let’s Make Tojin Wadako Kites (Sun) High school Orchestra 9/22 (Sun) Orchestra *Reservation required, 500 yen 4:30pm students and (Sasaki-san 1:30pm 58th Regular participation fee below: 500 ☎090-2996- Concert yen 3981) 〔Closings〕Monday, September 2nd・Monday, September 9th・Tuesday, September 17th・Monday, 9/25 September 30th (Wed) Aizu Area Aizu High 11am High School School Free ・ Drama (Suzuki-

9/26 Union Fall san ☎0242- (Thurs) Competition 28-0211) Aizu Keikodo Events 9:30am ☎0242-22-4700 Date and Event Fee Contact Time General: 2,000 yen One Voice Fukushima 18 years old Executive Gospel Live Prefecture 9/28 and Committee 2019 500 yen Retired (Sat) below:1,00 (Takahashi *Free for Female One Voice 9/7 33rd 6:30pm 0 yen -san high Teachers AIZU (Sat) “Aoi Sora no (*Same-day ☎ 090- school Akebo-no-kai 1pm Tsudoi” tickets 8250- students Northern

increase by 8471) and Branch 500 yen) below ( Muto-san ☎0242-27- 9059) Aizu New Cinema Works Aizu Cinema Film Screening Film Aizu General tickets 1,400 yen, Kogitsune Kon 9/29 Screening Children’s Age 3 to Junior High 1,000 9/12 to Kodanuki (Sun) Committee 3,000 yen Theater yen, Age 60 and over (please (Thurs) Pon Theatre ☎0225-23- ( Haga-san show ID) 1,000 yen 7pm Group Muu 1888 ☎0242-27- *Please inquire for films and Puppet Show 0588) showtimes

Aizu Keikodo 9/14 Liblic Theater Free ( ☎0242-22- (Sat) Forrest Gump 4700) 2pm Prefectural Museum Events ☎0242-28-6000 2,000 yen Date and Time Event *1,000 yen for 9/22 Sano Kazuaki Sano-san 9/14 (Sat) high Storytime at the Museum (Sun) Trumpet ( ☎080- 11am & 2pm school 7:15pm Recital 5871-8814) studen Special Exhibition Commemorative ts and 9/14 (Sat) Lecture “Isotopes Anthropology ~ below 1:30pm Approaching the Foodstuff of Fukushima Jomon People” 9/28 Aizu Keikodo Aizu Keikodo Free (Sat) ( ☎0242-22- 9/16 (Mon) Matsuri Museum Event「Coderanni Concert」 9am 4700) 1:30pm 〔Closings〕Friday, September 27th

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COMMUNITY POOL cyclables. INFORMATION FOR SEPTEMBER ◇Application and Inquiries: Haikibutsutaisaku- K OMYUHITHIIPUURU N O K AIKAN B I K U GATSU コミュニティプールの開館日・9月 ka (Waste Disposal Division ☎0242-27-3961) ▼For your safety, please be aware of the following points: ◎Please bring a swimming cap and wear it in the CONSULT US ABOUT water. ANYTHING ◎Second grade elementary school students and CONCERNING RIGHTS younger are required to be accompanied by their Z INKEN K OMARI GOTO NANDEMOSOUDAN parent/guardian. 人権・困りごとなんでも相談 ◎Elementary and junior high school students who ▼Date: Tuesday, July 2nd , 10am-3pm use the pool after 5:00pm are required to be ▼Place: Aizu Keikodo accompanied by their parent / guardian. (The Contact: Fukushima Regional Legal Affairs parent/guardian must also wear a bathing suit.) Bureau (Fukushima Chiho Homukyoku, ☎0242- ◇Inquiries Community Pool (Kawahigashi machi 27-1498) ☎0242-75-5201)

Sun. Mon. Tues. Wed. Thur. Fri. Sat. Emergency Medical Care

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ○ ● ● ● ● ● ○ at Night and on Holidays 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 ○ × ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ Night Emergency Clinic 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 × ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ YakanKyuubyouCenter 夜間急病センター 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 ☎0242-28-1199 ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ▼Departments: Internal medicine and pediatrics 29 30 *On holidays, a pediatrician is in charge. ○ ○ ▼ Check-in time: 7 days a week: 6:30pm~ Open Hours (× = Closed): ○ 9: 00 am- 9: 00pm 10:30pm (the doctor will see patients from ● 6: 00pm- 9: 00pm ▲ 1: 00pm- 9: 00pm 7:00pm) ▼Location: Yamaga-machi 1-22 *1st floor of the CORRECT DISPOSAL OF Kinkyo Community Center GARBAGE AND RECYCLABLES Holiday Medical Facilities T ADASHIKU D ASOU G OMIT O S HIGENNBUTSU 正しく出そうごみと資源物 & Holiday Pharmacies Please place garbage and recyclables in your KyuujitsuToubanIin KyuujitsuToubanYakkyoku 休日当番医院 / 休日当番薬局 neighborhood’s designated area by 8:30am on the day of collection. Aizu Wakamatsu Area Code=0242 *Please Garbage Collection During National Holidays dial the area code first. Kyuujitsu NoGomiSyuusyuu 休日のごみ収集 ▼Attention: ● Medical examinations and treat- On August 12th (Monday), garbage will be coll ments for the internal, pediatrics, and surgery ected as usual, excluding special “large item” re- departments are accepted from 9:00am until 5:00pm. Dentistry is from 10:00am to 4:00pm.

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● You can also check for available doctors Holiday Medical Facilities(Kyujitsu Toban Iin) during holidays on the city’s mobile website. I n t e r n a l Hayashidani Naika Iin S a k a e ● The QR code for the city’s mobile website can medicine 22-0408 be found to the left. *Japanese only. 林 谷 内 科 医 院 m a c h i Sept Semba Jibi Inkoka Iin Monden-machi 8th S u r ger y 26-4133 (Sun) 仙波耳鼻咽喉科医院 H i yo s h i

Takahashi Shika Iin Higashi Sengoku Holiday Pharmacies(Kyujitsu Toban Yakkyoku) Dentistry 28-4363 高 橋 歯 科 医 院 2-chome ●Yell Yakkyoku Sengoku-machi-ten I n t e r n a l September Clinic Arak i Kouzashimachi (Higashi Sengoku-1-chome ☎0242- medicine 32-9229 1st(Sun) a n d クリニック荒木 kurokawa 36-6011) P e d i a t r i c s Sept ● Aiai Yakkyoku Monden Hiyoshi- 1 5 t h Hasegawa Seikeigeka Clinic Kita Aizu-machi September ( S u n ) S u r ger y 56-2882 ten (Monden-machi Hiyoshi ☎0242- はせがわ整形外科クリニック Higashi Komatsu 8th (Sun) 29-1666) Koyama Shika Ii n Yonedai Dentistry 28-0180 小 山 歯 科 医 院 1-chome ●Tampopo Yakkyoku Kita Aizu-ten September (Kita Aizu-machi Higashi Komatsu I n t e r n a l Seita Naika Junkan Clinic B y a k k o 15th (Sun) medicine 85-6881 ☎0242-57-1170) 清田内科循環クリニック m a c h i Sept Ishida Ganka Ii n N i s s h i n 1 6 t h S u r ger y 27-0858 September ● Aizu Chozai Yakkyoku (Byakko- (Mo n) 石 田 眼 科 医 院 m a c h i 16th(Mon) machi ☎0242-36-7672) Tsutsui Shika Ii n T e n j i n Dentistry 26-8371 筒 井 歯 科 医 院 m a c h i ● Hiro Yakkyoku (Monden-machi Hiyoshi ☎0242-36-5582) I n t e r n a l Ito Naika Shokakika Clinic Monden-machi medicine 38-3733 September ● Ibuki Yakkyoku (Ikki-machi いとう内科消化器科クリニック H i yo s h i 22nd (Sun) Tsuruga ☎ 0242-37-1380) Iizuka Family Clinic Ikki-machi P ed i at r i c s ● 32-3330 Aiai Yakkyoku (Josai-machi☎ Sept いいづかファミリークリニック T s u r u g a 0242-29-6666) 22nd Aizu Seikei Geka ( S u n ) Tsushimadate ● Aiai Yakkyoku Monden Hiyoshi- S u r ger y Rehabilitation Clinic 28-1205 September m a c h i ten (Monden-machi Hiyoshi あいづ整形外科リハビリテーションクリニック 3rd (Mon) ☎0242-29-1666) Sengoku Dental Clinic Minamisengoku Dentistry 28-8211 千石デンタルクリニック ●Kusu-no-ki Yakkyoku (Shin Yoko- m a c h i Kachinomachi Clinic Kachino September machi ☎0242-38-3878) I n t e r n a l 26-6181 29th (Sun) ● Daian Yakkyoku (Byakko-machi medicine 徒之町クリニック m a c h i ☎ 0242-39-0311) Irisawa Hinyokik a Sept Monden-machi 2 3 r d S u r ger y Naika Clini c 38-3711 H i yo s h i (Mo n) 入澤泌尿器科内科クリニック Nagamine Shika Iin Sumiyoshi Dentistry 29-4182 Holiday Medical Facilities(Kyujitsu Toban Iin) 長 峯 歯 科 医 院 m a c h i I n t e r n a l I n t e r n a l Ebitani Clini c Tenjin medicine Kato Naika Shonika Iin K a w a r a medicine 28-8868 27-2732 蛯谷クリニック m a c h i a n d 加藤内科小児科医院 m a c h i P e d i a t r i c s S e p t Higashi Sept Yamauchi Seikei Geka Clinic 2 9 t h Ebitani Seikei Geka Iin B y a k k o 1st Surgery 85-7442 sengoku S u r ger y やまうち整形外科クリニック (Sun) 24-6511 ( S u n ) 1chome 蛯谷整形外科医院 m a c h i Takashima Shinji Shika Iin O m o t e Ekimae Sato Shika Iin B y a k k o Dentistry 27-7557 Dentistry 24-8387 高島慎二歯科医院 m a c h i 駅前佐藤歯科医院 m a c h i

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