On April 20, the "Dam Tourism Thinking Party" was held at Aomori-Nishimeyamura Central Community Center (Nishimeyamura Tashiro).

The same event that considers utilizing the dam as a tourist resource in cooperation with the environment around the dam and local residents. At Nishimeya Village, the construction of the Tsugaru Dam, which is under construction, is scheduled to be completed by the end of this fiscal year, so there has been growing interest in utilizing it as a new tourism resource.

For the keynote speech, Saki Miyajima, a dam writer from dam maniac, gave a lecture on the theme of "dam charm and revitalization of water source areas using dams". Yoshiko Nishijima of JTB Kanto Corporation Sales Mito Branch, who planned the first dam tour in Ibaraki prefecture, gave a lecture entitled "Dam Tour Key is "Public-Private Partnership"" and talked about the dam tour with their own experiences etc. did.

At the panel discussion, Mayor Kunisada Mayor Sanjo of Niigata Prefecture and Mayor Yokote Takahashi of Akita Prefecture participated to discuss the dam tour that was actually conducted and how to utilize the dam in the future.

“It is necessary for residents to know more about the dam and understand that it can be used as a tourist resource,” said Kazunori Seki, the mayor of Nishimeya Village. There was also a scene where Mr. Miyajima suggested, "There is a way to get the general public interested, for example, by introducing a dam as the source of drinking water."

There were more than 500 participants at the venue, and the organizers said they increased the number of seats. At the dumb card display corner installed inside the venue, there were visitors who looked at the cards distributed at dams across the country with great interest. After the closing, a site tour of the Tsugaru Dam was held to observe the appearance of the dam currently being released in the test flood and the inside of the boathouse.