Doto Expressway Ikeda Interchange (IC)
"Grape Hunting" will be held

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October 21, 2016
East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd.
Hokkaido Regional Head Office Obihiro management office

NEXCO EAST Obihiro Management Office (Otofuke, Kato-gun), as part of activities to contribute to the local community, at the Ikeda Interchange (IC) on the Doto Expressway, enjoying the seasonal ingredients of the region and feeling the Expressway familiar, For the purpose of deepening your understanding, we will cooperate with the Ikeda Town Special Support Education Promotion Association and invite students of elementary and junior high schools in the town and parents to hold a "vine gathering party", It will be announced.

As part of the local PR, the Ikeda IC welcomes customers who use the Expressway to cultivate grapes for brewing Tokachi wine, a specialty product of Ikeda-machi, around the toll booth since around 1998. ..

1 Implementation date

Friday, October 28, from 10:30 to 13:20

Image image of cultivated grapes
Cultivated grapes

2 Implementation place

Ikeda IC (Ikeda Town, Nakagawa District)

3 Implementation details

(1) Grape picking experience
Experience grape picking on the premises of the toll booth, making juice and tasting.

(2) NEXCO EAST Quiz
Broadcast a DVD to deepen your understanding of Expressway.

(3) Batch creation
Create a can batch based on the photo taken with Manatee.

Image image of the implementation last year

~Vine cultivation at the Ikeda toll gate~
・Given the opening of the Tokachi Shimizu IC-Ikeda IC in October 1995, the planting of the sapling "Kiyomi" was started.
・Although it will be withered once, in 1998 he learned how to manage pruning, fertilizers, and soil in earnest, and changed the grape variety to "Kimai", a variety that was improved in Ikeda-cho. The seedlings were replanted from around 2001 until the grapes grow stable. It has grown to 20 now.

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