Hirosaki Keizai Shimbun's PV (page view) ranking for the first half of 2023 was an article introducing the business succession of the cafe "Blue Eight".

The ranking is a total of 106 PVs of "Headline News" that were distributed for half a year from January 1st to June 30th this year. The rankings up to 10th place are as follows (posting dates are in parentheses).

1. Hirosaki's cafe "Blue Eight" "I will give you a store" 75-year-old shop owner's departure (1/7)
2. World-famous professional gamer Daigo Umehara completed a 300-kilometer walk to Hirosaki Park (4/17)
3. "Saizeriya" Aomori's first store opening in Aomori, local people are expected to line up online (2/3)
4. Hirosaki's "Banana Ice Cream" Crisis Surmounted by Haruma Miura's Fan Information (5/8)
5. "Saizeriya ELM Store" in Goshogawara, Aomori Opens Aomori's first store in all prefectures of Honshu (5/30)

6. Private room yakiniku restaurant "Gyuten" in Hirosaki Realization of a dream postponed due to Corona (6/3)
7. Aomori supermarket "Satocho" applies for application of civil rehabilitation law Seeking business continuity (June 26)
8. Craft fair "Tsugaru Mori" in Hirosaki, Mt. Iwaki for the first time in 4 years.
9. A simple Chinese soba restaurant in Hirosaki “Marumi” Aiming for a place where interaction is born (2/27)
10. Aomori "Furutobe Onsen" recruits business successors Secret hot spring known for "Todo Ne" (3/15)

The first place, "Blue Eight", is located on Dotemachi-dori, and is a coffee shop that has been around for over 30 years and is known to Hirosaki citizens as "a place where they remember their school days." At the end of last year, they put up posters in the store saying, "I'll give you Blue Eight," and started recruiting new store owners. Blue Eight has a new owner from April 30, and business continues.

Daigo Umehara, who ranked second, is from Hirosaki and is a world-famous professional gamer. We planned an independent project to aim for Hirosaki Park on foot from Sendai, and distributed the scene on the Internet. At Hirosaki Park, which was the goal, there were 13,000 simultaneous viewers. There was some information that Mr. Umehara was from Hirosaki, but during the distribution and when explaining the intention of this project, Mr. Umehara clearly stated that he was from Hirosaki, which attracted attention.

Saizeriya, which ranked 3rd and 5th, is a national chain Italian restaurant. On May 30th, the "ELM store", which will be the first store in Aomori Prefecture, will open in ELM in Goshogawara. There was a line on the first day, and since February 1, when the opening was announced, it has become a hot topic among locals, mainly on the Internet.

The 4th place banana ice cream is a flagship product of the long-established ice cream shop "Osanai Reikaten" (Komagoe, Hirosaki City). It was a tweet by a Haruma Miura fan that triggered the repair. In addition, there is an article introducing the application of the civil rehabilitation law for the supermarket "Satocho", the craft event "Tsugaru Mori", which was held for the first time in four years after the end of Corona, and the business succession of "Furutobe Onsen" in 10th place. Ranked in.

In the first half of 2023, the Hirosaki Keizai Shimbun increased the number of articles reporting on new store openings and renovations, suggesting that economic activity is picking up after the spread of the novel coronavirus. I would like to deliver bright topics and news in the Hirosaki area in the second half of the year.