This is a seminar that is conducting research on community development at our university's Special Exercise I (in charge of Mizutani). 13 students and one teacher from August 9 (Fri) to 10 (Sat), 2019. On a schedule, field survey and field work were conducted mainly in Yufuin-cho, Yufu City, Oita Prefecture.

　On the 9th of the first day, depart from the university at 7:00 in the morning and head to Yufuin, and from 10:00, Shintaro Ota, Chairman of the Yufuin Onsen Tourism Association, the current situation and issues of community development centered on hot springs in the Yufuin area. I heard a story. While valuing the life and lifestyle of Yufuin, exploring the Yufuin brand by exploring the way of hot spring tourism and community development different from Beppu Onsen, and the rapid increase in foreign tourists such as inbound tourism We learned about issues such as, maintaining the uniqueness of Yufuin, and the balance between capital inflow outside the prefecture and free riders.

　From noon, at the Harappa Cafe, which is operated by the non-profit organization Murazukuri NPO-style Hara, also serves as an inspection and “like! We had lunch at the cafeteria. You will have a buffet style of dishes using local ingredients in a buffet style, and after meals, decide the fee yourself and put it in the box after the meal, taking into account the customer's satisfaction with the cuisine and the possibility of maintaining the store. It was to. After that, at 14:30, we interviewed Urata about the outline of NPO activities, exchanges and relationships with foreign tourists and local communities and farmers through the business, the fun of the NPO business and management issues.

　After that, while purchasing additional barbecue ingredients for dinner, we walked about 2 km to the accommodation facility "Yufuin Flora House" through the Yunotsubo Kaido, where restaurants and souvenir shops are crowded. During dinner, each seminar student played a role in baking and eating Bungo beef, local vegetables, yakisoba, etc. on a charcoal fire to deepen exchanges between seminar students. We had local cultivated rice with the help of the inn, and the students made rice balls and enjoyed it.

　On the morning of the 10th, after having breakfast using Flora House homemade baby leaves and herbs as ingredients, President Masako Ando visited the Flora House accommodation business and cultivation of herbs and phalaenopsis in a house utilizing hot spring heat.・ We talked about distribution, how to create Yufuin's community. A variety of initiatives through rich exchanges based on trust and beliefs with people inside and outside Yufuin, global environmental issues felt through agriculture, the importance of learning from reading and lectures in community development, community development and "How to live? The students listened to and thought about the questions, such as the connection with the practice. "How do you live?" "What do you live for?" I also brought home homework about the question. In the garden of the Flora House, a bodhi tree, a symbol of freedom, is planted in France, and we asked about the circumstances and thought about the importance of encounter and connection between people.

　After that, from 11:00 to 15:00, we learned so far, and based on what we learned through hearing surveys, we actually saw and thought about community improvement in Yufuin area with our own eyes and thought about community improvement in the Yufuin area. After 15 o'clock, I took a university bus, visited the crater Noizumi at Tsukahara Onsen, another hot spring area in Yufu City, and returned to college just after 18:00.

　Students can gain multifaceted learning and diverse perspectives on community development through preparatory and learning before fieldwork and interview surveys on the site, and at the same time, as a third-year university student, "Living." It seems that it was a fruitful seminar trip with the opportunity to think about "thing".
(Professor: MIZUTANI Riaki, Department of Public Management)