Highway Festa Tohoku 2015
~ Thanks for 10 years. NEXCO EAST ~
It will be held at Sendai City Kotodai Park!

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August 5, 2015
East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd.
Tohoku Regional Head Office

NEXCO EAST Tohoku Regional Head Office (Aoba Ward, Sendai City) will hold “Highway Festa Tohoku 2015” at Sendai City Kotodai Park on September 19th and 20th, 2015.

Enjoying for all the visitors by gathering local people from all over the area along the Expressway six prefectures of Tohoku, and by directly publicizing "things unique to the area" that you can not experience unless you go there. It is an event to have you rediscover the charm of the Tohoku region.

We hope that this event will enhance the vitality of the area and stimulate the willingness to travel, which will lead to the activation of exchanges between areas.

This is the 14th event to be held at Kotodai Park. In addition, this year we are celebrating the 10th anniversary of our founding, and with our 10-year history and gratitude to our customers, we have given the subtitle "Thank you for 10 years. "NEXCO EAST" will be a lively event.

In addition, we expect about 50,000 visitors in two days.

1 Date and time

Two days, Saturday, September 19th and Sunday, September 20th, 2015
10:00-16:00 (Rainy weather)

2 venue

Kotodai Park Civic Square/Ikoino Zone (3 Hommachi, Aoba-ku, Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture)

3 Event name

Highway Festa Tohoku 2015

4 Event summary

It is as follows.
*In addition, details other than the following will be announced once they are decided. Also, Event website We will keep you updated on the latest information through.

5 Interview on the day

Please come to the general information desk at the venue. We will give you materials such as the venue guide map.

Event summary *The image is from last year.

Fukushima Hula & Tahitian Dance
Image of Fukushima Hula & Tahitian Dance
  • Tohoku 6 prefectures and other local performing arts [main stage]
Goshogawara Tachibuta Bandako (Aomori Prefecture), Sansa Dance (Iwate Prefecture), Namahage Taiko (Akita Prefecture), Sendai Suzume Dance (Miyagi Prefecture), Hanagasa Dance (Yamagata Prefecture) ), Hula & Tahitian Dance (Fukushima Prefecture)

Yamagata Yonezawa beef skewer
Image image of Yamagata Yonezawa beef skewer
  • Local gourmet sales from participating prefectures [Food stand booth]
Opened in 6 prefectures of Aomori prefecture, Iwate prefecture, Akita prefecture, Miyagi prefecture, Yamagata prefecture and Fukushima prefecture.
*We will inform you as soon as the details are decided.

Special plan [Main stage]

○Saturday 19th only
・"Oshu Sendai Hospitality Group! Collaboration stage with "Date Bushotai" and "Yamagata Okitama Ai no Bushotai"
○20th (Sun) only
・"Food City Shonai" Cooking Class by Goodwill Ambassador Masatomi Toki (Tsuruoka City, Yamagata Prefecture)
・"Oni Kenmai" Performance by Iwate Prefectural Kitakami Shonan High School Onikenmai
36th National High School Comprehensive Cultural Festival Best Performing Arts Award (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award)
○ Both days
・"Kumamai" A local performing art by the Noboribetsu Onsen Kumamai Association in Hokkaido
* This year, the people of Hokkaido will also participate with the opening of the Hokkaido Shinkansen in March next year.

Reference ・Results of last year * Held on Saturday, August 23 and Sunday, August 24

Participating groups: Approximately 70 groups (over 300 in total)
Number of visitors: 50,000

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