[O-06_30PO1] Geoparks in Japan

[O06-P14] Shimonita geopark and regional construction

*Satoru KANBE¹, Junjiro OKAWARA¹, Tomohiko SEKIYA¹ (1.Shimonita geopark promoting office)

Keywords:geopark, shimonita, regional construction, education of earth

Shimonita Geopark is a Geopark comprised of the farming and mountain village Shimonita town that assumed Shimonita-negi and konjac located in Southwest Gunma a special product.It is the farming and mountain village that is full of nature among the Mt. Myogi and Kanto mountains and is a town historical as a stage of the branch road of Nakasendo Road.I am said to be the sacred place of the geological feature study from old days, and the geological feature phenomena that they hid a secret of the Japanese Islands birth. Those geological features bring about the unique life and culture of people of the land. I introduce sightseeing, citizen-based town planning of Shimonita town utilized these area resources.In a sightseeing side, we open a course in a guide training lecture so that a local guide guides you and begin the sightseeing taxi which I matched with a world heritage as tourlists who came by a train. In an eduction side, because the teaching materials becoming the help of the science education of the elementary and junior high school are abundant, we perform an invitation from Tokyo and wrestle for activity to have local children know the charm of the hometown more, and to bring up regionalism In addition, the symposium of the theme "how protected local treasure" held a symposium last year and, as the place that thought about the sustainability of local resources, utilized the network of the Geopark and had you report the example of sustainable resources utilization from many aspects. In Shimonita town, I wrestle as consistency of the local promotion that is sustainable by Geopark activity.