Food Festival In Beppu-park

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Entrance of event place
By Kinya Uchida



Shokuno-daiennkai, the food festival, was held at 4th and 5th November in Beppu-park and a lot of local people gathered in. This event focused on "local food" of Kyushu area, so people could enjoy many traditional food, such as Ramen in Hakata and Toriten In Oita. The booth divided Kyushu and Oita. At Oita booth, Pudding shop "You", which provided their pudding to CO-OP shop during Beppu week, opened their booth, and Puru Nima, which is indian restaurant, and used as party place by APU student, also opened  food booth. Although We could enjoy this event without any care, this event was built up by certain people, Planning Oita.

the people line up

Planning Oita is one of an advertising agency in Oita prefecture. Takayuki Toshimitsu, the vice director of the business department, came to this event. “We could have gathered about 30000 people at only first day. So, I was relieved since this food festival went well.”, he said. Moreover, other two events, Beppu dance festa and Sentomyo Festival, were held, so the first weekend of November came to life.


Limited edition of Yuzu sharbet
 “We spent many hours planning this event, and I am happy for that any problem didn’t happen. We haven’t decided whether we will do the same event next year or not, but in my opinion, I want to hold”, Takayuki said. This event already finished, but most likely you can participate next time.

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  1. UnknownJanuary 24, 2018 at 7:05 AM

    Hi, I'm Joe from English UIEB-CI class. I didn't know that the food festival was held in Beppu. Which food did you enjoy the most?

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    1. UnknownJanuary 29, 2018 at 10:45 PM

      Thank you for putting a comment!
      There are a lot of food I want to recommend you, but the most delicious one which I think is Nikumaki-Onigiri. this is one of rice ball, but it is covered with flavored meet in stead of laver. Please try it if you have the chance!

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