Completion of "GYOZA Monument" on Utsunomiya's Gyoza Street|Conceived by local design college students
On Friday, October 28, the Tourism Promotion Committee of Utsunomiya City, Tochigi Prefecture and other cities completed and unveiled the "GYOZA Monument," a photo spot with a gyoza motif on the city's "Gyoza Street."
The new monument was created by selecting Maya Iimmen's work from 55 ideas that students of Utsunomiya Media Arts College came up with. In the future, we will play a role in promoting gyoza tourism to Utsunomiya by disseminating information through SNS.
Utsunomiya City forms the top three cities in terms of the annual purchase amount of dumplings by households (Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications Household Budget Survey) with Hamamatsu City and Miyazaki City. Utsunomiya Gyoza Club Currently, about 80 stores are members. In 2018, the Tourism Promotion Committee named Miyajimacho Street, which has many long-established stores, "Gyoza Street" and began to develop it. So far, we have developed manholes, street lamps, and road surface paint with dumpling motifs.
Monument unveiling
From 10 a.m. today, the people involved gathered for the unveiling. Mr. Iimen, who came up with the original design idea, said, "The design is simple and easy to look good on SNS. and PR. The size of the monument is 3 m wide× 1 m 10 cm high× 90 cm deep.
