On April 25, "Bunaco Cafe" (Nishimeya Muratashiro Inamoto, TEL 0172-88-6604) and "Bunaco Nishimeya Factory" opened in an empty school building of the former elementary school in Nishimeya, Aomori.

"Bunaco" (Toyohara, Hirosaki City), a manufacturer that manufactures and sells wood products made from beech wood. The company's products are highly praised both in Japan and overseas using a unique manufacturing method in which a tape-shaped beech material with a thickness of about 1 mm is wound into a coil and manually molded into a three-dimensional object.

The company, in collaboration with Nishimeya Village, renovated the Nishimeya Elementary School as a manufacturing plant. Relocated part of the head office factory. The classroom was used as a production workshop, the music room was a room where Bunaco speakers could be listened to, and the lunch room was renovated into a cafe.

The inside of the Bunaco Cafe uses lighting made by Bunaco, and in the center of the store is a table in the shape of Aomori prefecture designed by the late interior designer Shigeru Uchida. The store area is about 27 tsubo and the number of seats is 26. Mr. Fumiko Abo of the cafe smiles, "The appearance is the school itself, but when you go inside, you'll be happy with the reaction of the customer."

The menu includes regular coffee, cafe latte, wiener coffee, ice coffee float, and other coffee menus (starting from 500 yen), as well as ice tea, Darjeeling tea, apple tea and other tea menus (starting from 500 yen), and apple juice (starting from 400 yen). To prepare. In addition to preparing dessert menus such as "Aomori grated apple moist baum" and "Aomori kiln-out apple pie with vanilla ice cream" (over 600 yen), a daily menu such as daily pasta set (980 yen) will be prepared soon. That.

You can freely visit the attached factory and experience making Bunaco using a 24-cm bowl roll. The entry fee is 8,640 yen, and the finished product will be mailed at a later date (postage is not included). Makiko Sakuraba of the company said, "The utilization of vacant school buildings is close to our philosophy of using natural resources without waste. Sending "Bunaco" to the world from the foothills of the world natural heritage "Shirakami Mountains" that has native beech forests. I want to do it."

Business hours are from 10:00 to 17:30. Factory tour from 8:30 to 16:30.