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Koichi×Nagato City Tawarayama Photo Exhibition “A Journey to Meet Someone’s Hometown 02Yamaguchi Prefecture Photo Exhibition｜Photographs that Transcend Time and Remain” @Tokyo Square Garden
Start/End Dates:January 14, 2025(Tue) ～ March 7, 2025(Fri)
Organizer: Nagato City Tourism & Convention Association / SD-WORLD Corporation / Tokyo Tatemono Co.
Photographer Koichi's photo exhibition of Tawarayama Onsen at a gallery near Tokyo Station
Popular photographer Koichi's photos of Tawarayama Onsen (hot springs) will be exhibited at the art gallery in the first-floor office entrance hall of Tokyo Square Garden, near Tokyo Station. The photographs were taken between 2021 and 2010, capturing the retro atmosphere of the hot spring resort and its inhabitants with a large-format film camera.
SD-WORLD Corporation, which is working hard to revitalize the local community of Tawarayama, Nagato City, will have a stall at the "Kyobashi Marche" food marché to be held during the day on Tuesday, March 4 in the through passageway on the first floor of Tokyo Square Garden, selling local products from Tawarayama, Nagato City. In the evening of the same day, Koichi and Yoshihiko Fujinaga, president of SD-WORLD, will hold a fun talk show "Come to Tawarayama Onsen! will also be held (reservation required). The traditional hot spring town of Tawarayama Onsen in Yamaguchi. Please come and experience the "present" through koichi's photos and the images and thoughts of the various people who live there.
For more information on the event and to make reservations for the talk show, please visit the following website.
SD-WORLD Corporation, which is working hard to revitalize the local community of Tawarayama, Nagato City, will have a stall at the "Kyobashi Marche" food marché to be held during the day on Tuesday, March 4 in the through passageway on the first floor of Tokyo Square Garden, selling local products from Tawarayama, Nagato City. In the evening of the same day, Koichi and Yoshihiko Fujinaga, president of SD-WORLD, will hold a fun talk show "Come to Tawarayama Onsen! will also be held (reservation required). The traditional hot spring town of Tawarayama Onsen in Yamaguchi. Please come and experience the "present" through koichi's photos and the images and thoughts of the various people who live there.
For more information on the event and to make reservations for the talk show, please visit the following website.
Basic Info
| Venue | Tokyo Square Garden Art Gallery |
|---|---|
| Location | 3-1-1 Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo/ Tokyo Square Garden 1F Office Entrance Hall 10:00-19:00 (closed Saturdays, Sundays and holidays)*Close at 18:00 on 3/7 only |
| Access | By Subway】 ・Tokyo Metro Ginza Line "Kyobashi Station" directly connected to Exit 3 ・Tokyo Metro Yurakucho Line "Ginza 1-chome Station" 2 minutes walk from Exit 7 ・Toei Asakusa Line "Takaracho Station" 2 minutes walk from Exit A4 【By JR】 ・JR "Tokyo Station" 6 minutes walk from Yaesu South Exit ・JR "Yurakucho Station" 6 minutes walk from Kyobashi Exit Access from Haneda Airport/Shibuya direction on the Shuto Expressway ... Use Kyobashi exit on the Inner Tokyo Loop Route ・Access from Narita Airport/Ikebukuro direction on the Shuto Expressway ... Use Higashi-ginza exit ・75〜145 minutes from Narita Airport by car / 25〜45 minutes from Haneda Airport by car Approximately 25-45 minutes by car from Haneda Airport |
| Parking | Tokyo Square Garden Parking Lot is available (fee-based)/Capacity 210 cars |
| Parking Fees | Maximum charge: ¥2,500/24 hours Hours of entry/exit: 7:00-23:00 |
Contact
- Phone Number: 0837-27-0074
- Email: nagatrip@nanavi.jp
Map
Image Gallery
Examples of Exhibited Works
Koichi's gallery days
February 13 (Thursday), 20 (Thursday), 21 (Friday)
Tuesday, March 4 – Friday, March 7
Profile of Koichi
Koichi
Photographer from Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture. Works mainly in Tokyo. He specializes in landscape photography with people in the background and artwork using Photoshop, and captures everyday life based on the concept of “photographs that touch the heart. Recently, he has been working on communicating the joy of photography through the use of film cameras.
Instagram: @hakuchuu1882/@hakuchuu_film (film account)
・X: @Kfish1882
About the Exhibited Photographs
The photos were taken as part of the “Preserve Tawarayama Today” project led by Yu (Haruka) Iwata, who was working as a member of the Tawarayama Regional Development Cooperation Team from 2021 to 2010! Project” led by Yu (Haruka) Iwata, who was working as a local development cooperative in Tawarayama from 2021 to 2022.
The project was initiated by Mr. Iwata, and three artists (Koichi, photographer: Dairo Masuda, videographer: Ryuhei Hata) participated in the project, producing documentary photos of local people by Koichi, as well as documentary photos and videos of the shooting scenes. The works in this exhibition were shot by Koichi with a large-format film camera during the project, and capture the “now” of the various people living in the area, especially in the traditional hot spring resort areas. The captions also include episodes of interaction during the photo shoots, introducing the people of Tawarayama Onsen in Yamaguchi and their thoughts and feelings.
→Click here to see the project exhibition (held as part of an event at Tawarayama).
Kyobashi Marche" Tawarayama specialties stall
Date: Tuesday, March 4, 2025, 11:30-19:00
Location: Tokyo Square Garden, 1st floor, through passageway
Products for sale: confiture made from Yamaguchi’s original Yuzukichi citrus, hand-picked wild herb tea, yuzu tea, etc.
Light rain, cancelled in case of stormy weather
Kyobashi Marche: Event Information
Kyobashi Marche is a food marché held on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of every month at Tokyo Square Garden.
Organizer: Kyobashi Marche Executive Committee
・Cosponsored by Tokyo Tatemono Co.
・Supported by Chuo City, Kyobashi Ichinobe Rengo Chukai
Planning and production: POD Corporation, GYOSHO Co.
Kyobashi Marche information page: https://tokyo-sg.com/news/999
Koichi's Talk Show "A Journey to Meet Someone's Hometown 02-Yamaguchi Prefecture Photo Exhibition｜Photographs that Transcend Time" - Come to Tawarayama Onsen (Hot Springs)! 〜Tawarayama Onsen!
Organizers: Nagato City Tourism & Convention Association / SD-WORLD Inc.
Date: Tuesday, March 4, 2025, 18:30-19:30 (Registration from 18:00)
Location: Tokyo Square Garden, 6th floor, City Lab Tokyo
Capacity: 40 persons
Application Deadline: Closes when capacity is reached.
Fee: Free of charge
Reservations: No longer accepted
Message from Mr. Koichi
I first visited Tawarayama in February 2021. It was the winter of about four years ago. It snowed heavily in Tawarayama Onsen, where snow rarely piles up, and the electric
I vividly remember the view as we arrived at the fantastic hot spring resort, rocked by car and bus.
The connections I made at that time and the comfort of the nostalgic town became invaluable to my life, and eventually the people of the town
I began to participate in and photograph various local events such as festivals and festivals. I found myself going to Nagato City many times,
Before I knew it, it had become like a second family home.
The photographs in this exhibition were taken by three people of the same age who met in Tawarayama and began working together on this theme of preserving the “present” of Tawarayama.
The first is a call.
Inevitably, as time goes by, the scenery and lifestyles of local people change. As time goes by, the landscape and the lives of the local people change with it.
There are many things that are not so familiar to us, but the nostalgic time that flows in the hot spring resort town is surely here as it has been since the old days.
I began to think that it must have come from the atmosphere.
I was shown a black-and-white photo of an old hot spring resort town at that time that really impressed me, and I was so impressed by the fact that photos from almost 100 years ago still existed.
We decided to preserve this town in the 2022 era on black and white photographic film, the same as the The meaning of preserving the city as a form on film negatives that transcends time.
I would be happy if you could feel it.
The cameras used in this study, called large format cameras (4×5 and 8×10), were made in the early Showa period (early 20th century), and even today, the number of pixels and the resolution of these cameras are still very high.
is a timeless camera that outperforms digital by far.
I think it would be great if such a camera could preserve the atmosphere and ambience of a place for 100 years to come.
Koichi
Outline of the "Journey to Meet Someone's Hometown" Project
Tokyo Station, the departure and arrival point for many people returning to or from their hometowns, has been watching over the comings and goings of people for about 110 years.
The Kyobashi area is located near Tokyo Station and is a center of art and culture. Not far from Tokyo Station, the Kyobashi area has become a center of art and culture with a concentration of antique stores and galleries. Edo Period
The Kano school residences and the residence of Utagawa Hiroshige are located in the area, and over a long period of time, the soil for art has been nurtured in the area. Connecting Tokyo and the hometown, the
Kyobashi has great potential for developing this project, as it is an attractive location for a tosspot. Photographs featuring various locations in the Kyobashi area
By continuing the exhibition, we aim to connect Tokyo and the regions in a new way and contribute to the revitalization and creation of liveliness in both.
