Dorawari's "Northern Kanto Tour Free Pass" and "Northern Kanto Tour Smartphone Stamp Rally" are collaborating with the Fujishiro Seiji Museum of Art, "Tochigi Goodwill Ambassador for the Arts of Light"!
~As a special gift for the product, we will give you a postcard of Fujishiro-sensei's latest work~
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- Dorawari's "Northern Kanto Tour Free Pass" and "Northern Kanto Tour Smartphone Stamp Rally" are collaborating with the Fujishiro Seiji Museum of Art, "Tochigi Goodwill Ambassador for the Arts of Light"!
August 26, 2020
East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd. Kanto Regional Head Office
Fujishiro Seiji Museum of Art
NEXCO EAST Kanto Regional Head Office (Saitama City, Saitama Prefecture) will be selling the "North Kanto Tour Free Pass" with ETC round-trip discount [Dorawari], and with the cooperation of the three northern Kanto prefectures, will be launching the "North Kanto Tour Smartphone Stamp Rally" (hereinafter "Smartphone Stamp Rally") from Wednesday, August 27, 2025, with the aim of revitalizing tourism in the northern Kanto region.
We have recently partnered with the Fujishiro Seiji Museum of Art (hereinafter referred to as the Fujishiro Seiji Museum), a general incorporated association that supports the purpose of this initiative, to designate the area as a smartphone stamp rally spot. We are also pleased to announce that as a special perk for the "Northern Kanto Tour Free Pass and Smartphone Stamp Rally," we have prepared postcards of Fujishiro Seiji's new work, "Fujishiro Seiji 101: Living with Abby," which was completed in April of this year.
Mr. Seiji Fujishiro is highly acclaimed both in Japan and overseas as a shadow puppet artist, and has been appointed "Tochigi Light Art Goodwill Ambassador" to promote the charms of Tochigi Prefecture. Please take home a special piece that captures the fantastical worldview of master shadow puppeteer Seiji Fujishiro as a memento of your trip.
NEXCO EAST Kanto Regional Head Office and Fujishiro Seiji Museum of Art will continue to work together to revitalize the region.
1. How to receive special benefits for the "North Kanto Tour Free Pass/North Kanto Tour Smartphone Stamp Rally"
Kita-Kantou Tour Free Pass
By presenting the "Application Details Email" or "Complimentary Coupon Screen," you will receive a free postcard.
(One free pass will be given per use)
North Kanto Smartphone Stamp Rally
By collecting a digital stamp from the Fujishiro Seiji Museum of Art through the smartphone stamp rally and showing the smartphone screen at the front desk of the Fujishiro Seiji Museum of Art, you will receive a free postcard (one postcard per smartphone stamp rally participant).
2. About the Northern Kanto Smartphone Stamp Rally
Event period:
From Wednesday, August 27th to Wednesday, December 31st, 2025
Commemorative prizes:
We will give away wonderful local specialties from each prefecture through a lottery.
way to participate:
Please register to participate via the special page on NEXCO EAST Drivers' Site "DraPla."
Target location:
As follows (for details, please refer to the attached leaflet [PDF: 1.6MB]):
3. About the ETC Round-Trip Discount [Dorawari] Northern Kanto Round-Trip Free Pass
This is a great discount product that allows you to get on and off Expressway within the designated area for a fixed price for up to two or three consecutive days.
In addition to the round-trip plan that travels within the designated area, we also offer a plan departing from the capital area that combines one round-trip from the departure area to the designated area with a round-trip within the designated area.
For details on how to use the service and applicable areas, please visit "DraPla."
4. About Seiji Fujishiro
Mr. Seiji Fujishiro
Japan's leading shadow puppet artist
Born in Tokyo in 1924, he graduated from the Faculty of Economics at Keio University and entered the Keio Normal School, where he learned painting and etching from Kinpei Senba. At Keio University Preparatory School (High School), he studied under Genichiro Inokuma and Kazuo Wakita. He had been performing puppet shows since then, but after the war he returned to university and devoted himself to painting and creating puppet shows. It was around this time that he encountered Asian shadow puppetry, which had a major influence on his creative work.
After graduating, he was recognized by Yasuji Hanamori, editor-in-chief of the magazine "Kurashi no Techo," and began serializing his shadow puppets in the magazine in 1948. In 1961, he founded a life-size stuffed animal puppet show, which was performed at the Mokubaza Theatre. The TV program "Mokubaza Hour" became an explosive hit, and the character "Keroyon," who became a national idol, is still beloved today.
In addition, his shadow play "Night on the Galactic Railroad" was highly praised both at home and abroad, and he has since performed shadow plays in countries around the world.
In recognition of his achievements, he was awarded the Medal with Purple Ribbon and the Order of the Rising Sun, Fourth Class, Gold Rays with Rosette. For his picture books, he won the Golden Apple Award at the BIB International Children's Book Fair in Czechoslovakia in 1983. He has written many books, including "The Mysterious Journey of the Wine Bottle," and has received high praise from around the world. In 2004, he held a solo exhibition in New York and Washington, USA, which was featured in the New York Times and the Washington Post. The following year, he held his first exhibition in Korea. Since then, he has been actively holding exhibitions at art museums all over the country.
5. Appointment as "Tochigi Light Arts Goodwill Ambassador"
Tochigi Prefecture appointed Seiji Fujishiro, a world-renowned shadow puppet artist who runs an art museum in Nasu Town, as the "Tochigi Light Arts Goodwill Ambassador" in November 2024 to help him spread the appeal of Tochigi Prefecture more widely.
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The Tochigi Goodwill Ambassador of Light and Art is appointed by the Governor of Tochigi Prefecture to an internationally active individual who has a deep attachment to Tochigi Prefecture and is expected to embody the era of 100-year lifespans through continued creative activities and contribute to enhancing the appeal of Tochigi Prefecture.
NEXCO EAST Group has positioned the period from 2021 to 2025 as a period for contributing to the achievement of the SDGs and transforming toward a new future society, and is undertaking a variety of initiatives.
We believe that our participation in the partner booth this time will contribute to SDGs goals 8 and 17 as business activities that lead to the promotion of sustainable tourism and revitalization of local communities.
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