| Hi shun
How are you doing? Already two weeks have passed since I came to Ama. Gradually I became to be familiar with the life in Ama Island. It is a 100% different world from the Tokyo. No clubs no karaoke no balling, instead of delicious sea food, sea breeze and plenty of green. Kind of a feeling you never experienced in Tokyo metropolitan.
Summer is the most eventful season in Ama Island, because people from all over the Japan come to spend their vacation in island .also the people who born in island but who live outside also comeback to their home town .
So the Kinyamunya center each year organized beer garden in this season . This beer garden is completely different from the normal beer gardens which we have every where in Japan especially in summer season. The main intention of the beer garden is not to earn money, but to use the ingredients of the island and introduce the Ama culture to the people from outside. So it was a kind of social gathering place for the people in Ama.
The most important thing which I learned from the beer garden was the Ties up of the people of Ama. In a normal beer garden we go with our family or friends and drink and come back, but in this beer garden people know each other, so they drink together, eat together and enjoy together. Even the kids, they know each other. They are like brothers and sisters. This kind of atmosphere you never experience in big cities. |