Students from the Department of Geography Hachioji CampusDepartment of History a field survey in Utsunomiya City for a geography field trip.

From Tuesday, February 20th to Thursday, February 22nd, 2024, students from the Faculty of Liberal Arts course of the Department of History, Teikyo University conducted a field survey in Utsunomiya City, Tochigi Prefecture.

In the Geography Field Training course, which is a part of the course, students are led by faculty members twice a year for three days and two nights to conduct a field survey as the final stage of their studies. Eleven 2nd and 3rd year students of the course participated in this field survey, led and guided by Eiki Watanabe, Faculty of Liberal Arts Department of History Senior Assistant Professor, Junpei Hirano, Associate Professor, and Sumirei Yamashita, Associate Professor.

Starting in September 2023, the students split into three groups - agriculture, culture, and tourism - to decide on a research theme, select interview locations, create questions, and request visits to the locations. For this field survey, each group visited businesses, public institutions, and organizations that had permission to visit, and conducted a survey that focused on interviews.

As the three groups conducted their research on their respective themes, "The background behind the popularity of tomato production in Utsunomiya," "Oya stone, a rock unique to Utsunomiya," and "Characteristics of roadside station management systems and users," they learned from interviews and survey results that businesses and public institutions are proceeding with their businesses and operations with the utmost ingenuity and strategy, given the local conditions of Utsunomiya. It is expected that the students will utilize the field survey method they learned this time, which involves building trusting relationships with local people, in their graduation dissertations and in the real world.

We received a lot of help from the people of Utsunomiya City during this on-site survey. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to everyone who cooperated with us.

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