4 days to enjoy Kohoku and Sakana Samegai Exploration Market 2025" at Awai Trout Farm at the Samegai Trout Farm from March 20 (Thu. holiday) to March 23 (Sun.)!

2025.03.11 14:00

滋賀県水産課　こほくらぶ事務局(株式会社フラン)

Samegai Exploration Market 2025" will be held for four days from March 20 (Thu., holiday) to March 23 (Sun.), 2025 at the Samegai Trout Farm (Location: 1570 Kamitanou, Maibara, Shiga Prefecture).

Detailed URL: http://samegai.siga.jp/?p=13469

早春の養鱒場で動物たちを探そう(イメージ)

Let's look for animals at a trout farm in early spring (image)

The market is full of fun programs for eating, cooking, and exploring!

There will be an "Animal Walk" where you can explore the rich nature of the trout farm to find answers, a "Fish Guide" where you can walk around the farm while listening to a fish expert, workshops to make fish-related artworks, and sales of original pizza, ponzu (Japanese sweet), and amazake (Japanese sweet sake). There are many programs that can be enjoyed by parents and children, friends, or even just one person.

大人気の釣り場は子どもから大人まで楽しめます

The popular fishing spot is fun for children and adults alike!

釣った魚はすぐにおいしい塩焼きでいただけます

The fish you catch can be immediately grilled with delicious salt!

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Let's look for paper cutout animals!

◎Animal Walk by Teppei Hayakawa (held every day during the exhibition period)

Paper cutout artist Tetsubei Hayakawa's animals are hidden in the trout farm.

If you find all of them using the map as a clue, you can spin the gacha-gacha (gumbo) to get original socks, can badges, and other goods from the trout farm. First 120 visitors each day.

Learn in a fun way! Let's learn about the creatures of the trout farm!

◎Osakana Guided Tour (Saturday, March 22 and Sunday, March 23)

Fish professionals will guide you to the must-see spots in the trout farm.

Participants in the guided tours will receive a certificate of completion originally designed by Tetsubei Hayakawa.

Held twice a day / departures at 11:00 and 13:00

◎Making a map of the living creatures (March 22 (Sat.) and 23 (Sun.))

Collect the designated number of stickers to complete a clear file of the Trout Farm's living creatures tour.

You can take the completed file home. (Cooperation: Seian University of Art and Design)

Delicious foods of which they are proud will be on display! (March 20 (Thursday, national holiday))

◎Hyakushokuya

Poncakes made by rice farmers. Let's fill colorful poncakes with your own hands.

Kusano Farm

Amazake made only with Omi rice and rice malt. You can enjoy one cup of amazake on the spot.

◎Kitchen Car Salice × Ritsumeikan University and Shiga Prefectural Nagahama Agricultural High School

This is an original pizza created by "Salice," a kitchen car popular for its pizzas using local ingredients, and members of Ritsumeikan University's Shutto Shiga. Pizzas using miso, gochujang (red pepper paste) and sausages made by students of Nagahama Agricultural High School in Shiga Prefecture are also available.

オリジナルピザ(イメージ)

Original pizza (image)

Let's make cute and stylish goods at the workshop! (Thursday, March 20, holiday)

◎KOS crayon

You can make one-of-a-kind crayons with any combination of colors.

There will also be crayons with fish motifs and wooden ornaments.

KOS crayon

◎Mino'aka

Let's enjoy decorating with colorful slime such as red, pink, blue, green, and yellow.

◎macu macu Erika Kumadora

Make your own original fish by using colorful cloth as scales on cotton-filled mini-fish made of cloth.

◎Toshiyuki Shimada

Cute wood carvings of animals and handmade chairs.

Awasei Trout Farm

The Awai Trout Farm, which will soon celebrate its 150th anniversary, is a Shiga Prefecture facility with the functions of trout production and supply, tourism, learning, and research.

Established in 1878, it is one of the oldest trout farms in Japan.

The environment surrounding the trout farm is a natural landscape of deep mountains and valleys, and is said to be the "home of mountain stream fish in Japan," with iwana, amago, rainbow trout, and loach being raised using fresh water from a limestone cave at the foot of Mount Reisen (1,094 m).

Teppei Hayakawa Profile

Born in Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture in 1982, Hayakawa is a paper cutout artist.

Born in Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture in 1982, Hayakawa began kiri-e (paper cutting) when he was a small child, playing with paper cutouts with his mother.

Based at the foot of Mt. Ibuki in Shiga Prefecture, he draws nature and wild animals he encounters on a daily basis.

He is exploring new possibilities for paper cutout expression, not only through his precise paper cutout works, but also through large-scale installations and light-ups.

切り絵作家早川鉄兵氏