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This news is about Volunteer+Sightseeing Tour

Combined volunteer and sightseeing tour is a great way to help the disaster areas physically and financially. Participants do cleanup work the first day and stay in an onsen (hot spring) hotel and shop in local stores

This particular tour that the reporter followed helped spread insecticide on the ground,

remove rotten fish (from a fish processing plant)

They had to endure stench

Very hard work

and laborious

The hotel they stayed at had an occupancy rate of just 30% compared to an average year

The staff welcomed the volunteer tour guests

Participants had group dinner after a well-deserved hot spring soak

Dinner

They were happy

Staff poured sake for guests

The next morning, they visited Morioka Village

where they could buy local goods such as apple juice

and jam

Then they went to a sake brewery

The brewery also suffered from a big drop in the number of visitors due to loss of power

Sale was less than half

But the number of consumers that buy sake from the Tohoku area (northeast area) increase gradually

The brewery staff says people's passion to "let's help the Tohoku people in affected area"

is the virtue of Japanese

This participant thinks it's a meaningful thing to do

The Tohoku area needs our long term continual support