I’m in contact with all of the following and now discussing possible dates for interviews. They will also be able to refer us to yet another person. Especially at Amidayu, as I said before, it is possible to meet and talk to probably many people just by staying there. I’m sure that they will also help us to find the best places for the photo/movie shoot.

• Restaurant Tenzo: Ichiro Sakamoto レストラン典座: 坂本一郎 https://www.hokkoku.co.jp/articles/-/1321082

  • He is an owner of the local restaurant of Suzu-shi, Noto. I contacted with him before cause I’ve contained his father’s article on my booklet before. His father was an artisans of Suzu Pottery Ichiro-san served emergency food for disaster victims with traditional wares to make them feel relieved when earthquake happened

• Honmachi Station: Sakika Matsuda 本町ステーション: 松田咲花

  https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASS6Y0VZ4S6YPJLB00QM.html

  • She made a community space named “Honmachi station” after earthquake. Because she thought that a place which any people can come feel easily and share their fun or even sad memory with no pressure together needed. She was a photographer and she tried to build her own studio at Suzu-shi but it totally broken by disaster.

• Kaihin amidayu: Kenta Shinya 海浜あみだ湯: 新谷健太

  https://greenz.jp/2024/05/23/suzu_volunteer/

  • He moved to Noto several years ago and has helped set up local restaurants and guesthouses. He now works as the owner of a public bathhouse. Because the bathhouse uses groundwater, it was able to reopen soon after the earthquake. The houses that collapsed after the earthquake are still the same states, but this bathhouse heats the bath by burning the wood from the houses. The concept of it is “to heal people while mourning the town”. At the bathhouse, people from all walks of life cook and eat together, sleep together, clean the baths, and teach each other of study.

• Tinies farm: Kaori Tokoi タイニーズファーム 床井かおり

  • She moved from Tokyo to Suzu two years ago and still lives in Suzu. At Kaihin Amidayu, she also cooks and serves meals to the local people and practices a lifestyle that makes the most of Noto's water, agricultural products, and nature. She also provides free lodging for this trip!