13 entries (88 people) were submitted from all over the country for the 73th Painting Exhibition in Daio Daio Grand Prize Exhibition, a town of drawings. After a rigorous screening process, the following works were awarded prizes.
| Award name | Title | Name | Address |
| Daioh Grand Prize | At dawn | Tomoyoshi Ikukawa | Tsu City, Mie Prefecture |
| gold medal | Days Off | Hideyo Jono | Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture |
| Silver prize | 篭 | Wakako Okamura | Yokkaichi City, Mie Prefecture |
| Special Award: Mie Prefecture Governor's Award | Fantasy | Kazuoki Matsunaga | Aichi Prefecture, Nagoya City |
| Special Award: Mie Prefecture Board of Education Superintendent's Award | weathering | Junichi Nakamori | Wakayama City, Wakayama Prefecture |
| Encouragement Award Mie Prefecture Tourism Federation Chairman Award | Teruki | Masao Imai | Mie Prefecture Toba City |
| Encouragement Award: Ise-Shima National Park Association Director’s Award | Scenery found while cruising Ago Bay | Hisato Kitaguchi | Higashi Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture |
| Encouragement Award: NHK Tsu Broadcasting Director's Award | Kizuna - Anori Puppet Play | Keiko Iwamoto | Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture |
| Encouragement Award Mie Television Award | A man smoking bonito | Masaaki Kuramatsu | Tosashimizu City, Kochi Prefecture |
| Encouragement Award Radio Cube Award | Autumn weather | Mieko Yonekawa | Suzuka City, Mie Prefecture |
| Encouragement Award: Shima City Chamber of Commerce Chairman Award | "White wall (smoking hut)" | Toshitake Mashita | Kameoka City, Kyoto Prefecture |
| Encouragement Award: Shima City Tourism Association Director’s Award | The rich sea of Cape Daio | Toshiki Kobayashi | Suzuka City, Mie Prefecture |
| Hope Prize Limited to those under 40 years old | Uncle Hisashi's Pearl Factory | Hiromi Tsuji | Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture |
| Hope Prize Students Only | signpost | Kana Ouchida | Kitakatsuragi District, Nara Prefecture |
| Hope Prize Students Only | Minato | Ryuji Nakamura | Toyooka City, Hyogo Prefecture |
| Excellent work | Anori Bunraku | Shigehiro Hayashi | Shima City, Mie Prefecture |
| without waiting for people | Shigeki Nakamura | Ise City, Mie Prefecture | |
| In a corner of Nakiri fishing port | Naohiro Masuda | Yoshino-gun, Nara | |
| Early spring | Jundo Chikazawa | Tsu City, Mie Prefecture | |
| south coast defense belt | Takeo Tabata | Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture | |
| Kannazuki no Nakiri | Tetsuya Watanabe | Nabari City, Mie Prefecture | |
| At Nakiri, you can see the image | Isumi Matsumiya | Inabe City, Mie Prefecture | |
| underwater and surface | Hime-An Ito | Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture | |
| quiet afternoon | HUANG | Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture | |
| Great King, September Monkey. | Norihiko Masuda | Ise City, Mie Prefecture | |
| Norisoda | Isao Ito | Handa City, Aichi Prefecture | |
| Sazae | Yuki Horiguchi | Aichi | |
| Shima love story | Yoshinari Hosokawa | Tottori City, Tottori Prefecture | |
| Bonito fishing off the coast of Daiosaki | Fumihito Matsumoto | Sakaiminato City, Tottori Prefecture | |
| Shining white and blue memories | Mana Sato | Tottori City, Tottori Prefecture | |
| fisherman's hut | Kenji Iechika | Kashiwara City, Osaka Prefecture | |
| reef | Utsumi Fukuhiro | Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture | |
| Living with stonework | Akira Masuda | Omaezaki City, Shizuoka Prefecture | |
| my dandarabocchi | Shizuko Kawarazaki | Kikugawa City, Shizuoka Prefecture | |
| Ise lobster and atachi | Tamiyo Tanaka | Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture | |
| Fluctuations ~ Nakiri Fishing Port ~ | Hope Tsuji | Kato City, Hyogo Prefecture | |
| Every day is a good day | Yoshiko Funakura | Kitakatsuragi District, Nara Prefecture | |
| I want it | Takeko Kanamaru | Suzuka City, Mie Prefecture | |
| sea people | Hideo Isoyama | Inashiki District, Ibaraki Prefecture |
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Shima City Tourist Information Center will start "Baggage Storage Service" on December 12, 29
Leave your suitcases and other large luggage at the Tourist Information Center and enjoy traveling light!
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Start date of handling: December 2021, 12
[Keeping fee] 700 yen (per piece)
(Limited to items with a total length + width + height of up to 160cm and a weight of 25kg or less)
*(From March 2024, 3) 13 yen [Limited to rental bicycle users]
[Keeping period] 9:00-18:00 *As a general rule, only on the day
[Deposit method] Face-to-face at the counter
Storage fee must be paid in advance
We'll issue a voucher
Storage: Shima Tourist Information Center
The Shima City Tourism Association, a general incorporated association, was registered as a ``Tourism Area Development Corporation (Candidate DMO No. 3)'' by the Japan Tourism Agency on November 11, 4.
We will continue to work hard to support local tourism-related businesses and aim to register as a tourism community development organization (DMO), so we appreciate your continued understanding and cooperation in our association's operations. .
| Name | Shimako-san |
|---|---|
| Address | Shima city |
| Nature | Funny. Always powerful. |
| His 'boom' | Relax at Ama hut & sing idol songs |
| Special skill | Free diving |
| During days offs | Sea Kayak |
| Charm Point | Red lips ! |
| Name | Aosa |
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| Address | Shima's beautiful sea |
| Nature | Usually, he is a laid-back person. Sometimes he dances hard. |
| His 'boom' | To dip in miso soup. |
| Special skill | To clean the earth. (Every day, he is driven by a strong sense of justice.) |
| During days offs | Wavering. |
| Charm Point | Round pearls on the head and short, narrow feet. |
Thank you for choosing Shima City Premium Accommodation Voucher.
We will provide you with information regarding miso.
Due to the prevention of the spread of the new coronavirus infection and the declaration of a state of emergency, we have received a lot of feedback from people who say they can't go on a trip or can't go to Shima City within the deadline, so we have extended the usage period as follows. We have decided to extend it for one year.
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□ Publication date: For the period from April 2020, 4 to October 1, 2020
→Extend the expiration date for another year
Example) If the publication date is 2020.4.1
→The expiration date is April 2022, 4.
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□ If the publication date is October 2020.10.31, XNUMX
→ The expiration date is October 2022, 10.
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□ Publication date: October 2019, 10 to March 1, 2020
→ We are requesting that the expiration date be extended for an additional year.
Example) Issue date: October 2019, 10 → October 1, 2021.
Publication date: March 2020, 3 → March 31, 2022.
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*Please contact the Shima City Tourism Association in advance when using the service.
If you have any questions, please contact us.
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According to the survey of Tripadvisor(c) released on December 1st 2020, Shima city was chosen as the best tourist destination in Japan!
This survey was reflecting the recent trend of domestic travelers who prefer to avoid busy places to hot springs, outdoor activities, and walking in nature.
The ranking is as below;
The result was based on the replies from 3429 people of USA, UK, Italy, Australia, Japan, and Singapore, and the data from search outcome and hotel-reservations between December 2020 to January 2021.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic and Japan's Go To Travel Campaign, the major hotels and ryokans in Shima city are almost fully booked on weekends lately.
Because Shima is rich in nature, and there are many options for seafood and outdoor activities such as canoeing and fishing, it becomes more attractive tourist destination for domestic travelers.
| Related Links | Tripadvisor Press Release |
A series of Youtube videos were released by Mie prefecture!
These videos would give you perfect images of what you can do in Mie prefecture.
Of course, our proud and beautiful district Shima is on the videos, and you can check out local activities and breath-taking scenery of Shima.
We are looking forward to seeing you soon!
'Ama' or 'Ama-san', as known as female skin divers, are traditionally women's occupation in Japan.
Many of the Women who were born in fishing villages started diving from early age, and became Ama-san to catch a variety of seafoods to make their livelihood.
Even after they got married and became mothers, those women could dive into the sea and earned a lot of money. That helped women be independent and they worked proudly as important income earner of the family.
After the economic growth, the number of Ama-san got dramatically decreased. Some fishing villages have not a single Ama anymore, and the tradition completely disappeared.
However, in Shima city, there are approximately 230 women who work as Ama (2018).
And there are some places that visitors can meet and talk with those real Ama-san while having excellent grilled seafood inside a cozy atmospheric wooden hut.
At Ama Hut SATOUMIAN, nice and chatty Ama women will welcome visitors and tell their stories about daily work and tradition. It's a very unique experience that we want anyone to try.
The famous travel blog Cheeserland.com just shared a blog about Ise-Shima!
The well-known female blogger Cheesie, who shares her travel experiences through Cheeserland.com and have traveled all 47 prefectures of Japan, just came back to Mie prefecture this time.
Please check out her blogs to see what you can do in Mie prefecture!
Japan is going to host the 9th Pacific Islands Leaders Meeting, so called PALM, in 2021.
This time, the PALM will be held in Shima city, Mie prefecture.
Pacific Islands Leaders Meeting is a summit-level meeting which has been held every three years since 1997. Leaders openly discuss various issues that Pacific Island Countries(PICs) are facing in order to build close cooperative relationships and forge a bond of friendship between Japan and PICs.
PALM is now constituted by 19 countries and areas including Kiribati, Cook Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Tonga, Nauru, Niue, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, Palau, Fiji, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia,
New Caledonia, French Polynesia, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan.
For more information, please check out the link below.
| Related Links | PALM9 TrendMag |
Many of you, travelers from overseas who have ever visited Japan during mid-summer, often say “I'll never come back here in summer” due to the extreme humidity in Japan.
However, once you experienced Japanese Autumn, I'm sure you'll fall in love with this country again.
The unpleasant humidity is completely disappeared now, and clear blue sky and colorful Autumn leaves feast your eyes.
To enjoy such a great weather and nice temperature, today, I’d like to introduce you ‘Daio-saki Lighthouse’.
The pure-white building stands at the top of a hill, so, you just need to take a little walk to get there.
But trust me, it is truly worth visiting.
You can actually go into the lighthouse building.
The path inside the lighthouse is quite narrow and steep, and since there's no window while you are walking upward. so, you may feel uncomfortable about the process.
But once you arrive at the top of the lighthouse, the world you see will be completely different.
The horizon shines in front of your eyes and it's far, far away. And the horizontal line is not flat, and you'll just realize that this planet is truly round.
Also, on the way to daio-saki Lighthouse, I recommend you to walk around the town and the coastline. The atmosphere of the small fishing village is so cool, and you'll find old days' nostalgia still exists in real life now.
