13 students and one faculty member conducted field surveys and fieldwork mainly in Yufuin-cho, Yufuin-cho, Oita Prefecture, on August 9th (Fri) to 10th (Sat), 2019, at a seminar that conducts research on community development in OIST's specialized exercise I (in charge of Mizutani).

　On the 9th of the first day, we left the university at 7:00 in the morning and headed to Yufuin, and from 10:00, Mr. Shintaro Ota, chairman of the Yufuin Onsen Tourism Association, talked about the current situation and issues of community development centered on hot springs in the Yufuin area. I heard the story. While valuing the life and life unique to Yufuin, we have been exploring ways of sightseeing and community development different from Beppu Onsen, developing the Yufuin brand, and increasing the number of tourists from overseas such as inbound and overtourism I learned about issues such as maintaining Yufuin's uniqueness and balancing capital inflow outside the prefecture and free rider issues.

　From noon, at the Harappa Cafe, run by the non-profit organization Murazukuri NPO-style Harappa, "Like!" We had lunch at the restaurant. You can enjoy dishes using local ingredients in a buffet style, and after meals, decide the price yourself and put it in the box, taking into account the customer's own satisfaction with their own dishes and the possibility of maintaining the store. It was a thing. After that, at 14:30, we talked to Urata about the activities of the NPO, 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 buying ingredients for dinner barbecue, we walked about 2 km to the accommodation facility "Yufuin Flora House" through the Yunotsubo Kaido, where restaurants and souvenir shops are crowded. At dinner, each seminar student played a role in sharing, and baked Bungo beef, local vegetables, yakisoba, etc. on a charcoal fire to deepen exchanges between seminar students. The students cooked locally grown rice with the help of the inn, and the students made rice balls and enjoyed it.

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

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

　Students can gain multifaceted learning and diverse perspectives on how to create a community through pre-field work preparation and learning and interviews on-site interviews. It seems to have been a fruitful seminar survey trip with the opportunity to think about things.
(Professor Department of Public Management, MIZUTANI Riaki)