The 2nd Bread Summit was held on March 4th and 5th at the Aomori Prefectural Tourism and Products Center Aspam (1 Yasukata, Aomori City).

This event, which features the local food "Boupan", which is popular among Aomori citizens, will be held for the second time following the one held in June last year. On the 5th, when the sunny weather spread from the morning, it was a great success with a long line at the reception. Sponsored by general store "Sannotsukisha" (Yanagimachi).

Visitors who received sticks wrapped with bread dough at the reception enjoyed the process of fragrantly baking bread on the grill and tasted the freshly baked bread. A teenage boy visiting from the city said with a smile, "I found out about the event on the internet. I was happy that I was able to bake well. I want to come again."

In addition to the experience corner, we also sell original goods with the theme of "wearable stick bread". In addition, 15 shops that sell food, miscellaneous goods, and accessories related to bread sticks livened up the venue with a number of elaborate creative goods. A woman in her 40s living in Aomori who bought bamboo for bread sticks said with a smile, "It's rare to get one, so I'm happy. I want to bake bread sticks at home."

In the ASPAM hall, "MUSUBI", which brings together five events "Time Market", "Imo Festival", "Summer Craft School", "Secondhand Book Market", and "Kinoma Expo" hosted by "Sannotsukisha" will be held at the same time. . Visitors enjoyed food, crafts, and hands-on experiences at all 60 shops of Stick Pan Summit and MUSUBI in a different atmosphere for each area.

According to Mr. Shima Yamaguchi, the owner of Sannotsukisha, about 2,500 people experienced stick bread in two days. A total of about 10,000 visitors including MUSUBI. "Many young customers took many pictures of the stick bread. There were many people who didn't know about the stick bread, and many said they were experiencing it for the first time," he said. “At this event, Aomori citizens’ ‘love for stick bread’ and ‘greed for stick bread’ will be awakened by enjoying bread sticks that have never been seen before, such as flavored breads such as chocolate chips and matcha, and triple breads that can be baked at once. I felt like it went even deeper." “I would be happy if it became a local event in Aomori. I hope that people outside of Aomori City and Aomori Prefecture, who don’t have many opportunities to eat bread sticks, will come to Aomori to eat bread sticks at the bread summit.” I hope.