Recruitment of attracting events at Children's Nature Park (trial implementation of open call for participants type act permission)

For details, please refer to the application guidelines.

Entrance open space, donut open space, picnic open space, lawn open space, grassland open space
※See the separate figure.

Phase 1: May 7-June 30, 2015
Phase 2: September 1-October 31, Reiwa 7
Phase 3: From December 1, Reiwa 7 to January 30, Reiwa 8 (except from December 27 to January 4)
※The number of days of implementation is within 7 days including preparation and removal per event.
※The schedule may be adjusted by the Northern Parks and Greenery Project Coordination Office, so it is not always possible to carry out on the desired schedule.
※If more than one candidate for permission to act is selected at the same time, it may be performed at another time.

As a general rule, from 9:00 to 18:00
※Excluding preparation and removal time.

①Please make the event content that contributes to the creation of the charm and bustle of the park with the keywords "Children play the leading role" and "You can experience rich nature".
②Prepare a free rest space as a park that everyone can use.
③As approach contributing to charm improvement of park, please perform improvement of aesthetics by cleaning activity in park or charm dispatch of park according to information dispatch of event.
④As an initiative of the SDGs, please work on deplasticization when selling food and drink.
⑤Initiatives that contribute to decarbonization include encouraging event participants to use public transportation, and utilizing hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) as event power sources.
⑥Park parking lots and bicycle parking lots are limited and may cause traffic congestion. Therefore, when conducting an event with a planned number of customers exceeding 6,000 per day, guide the use of public transportation or provide temporary parking lots and temporary buses.

• 3,900 yen per day for the entire event
• 1,200 yen per store per day for food and drink / goods sales and paid experience
• Advertisement 3,400 yen per square meter per day

・Friday, October 25, 2024: Start of open call for participants
・Friday, November 22, 2024: Application deadline for prior briefing session
・10:00 on Wednesday, November 27, 2024: Preliminary briefings
・17:00 on Wednesday, December 5, 2024: The deadline for submitting the questionnaire
・Thursday, December 12, 2024: Answer to Questionnaire
・17:00 on Wednesday, December 25, 2024: The deadline for submitting proposals
・January 2025: Examination, decision of candidate for action permission
・One month prior to the implementation of the project: Application for permission to act, etc.
・May 1995-January 1998: Project implementation

• Date and time: 10:00 on Wednesday, November 27, 2024 (about 90 minutes required)
• Venue: Children's Nature Park (Please gather at Northern Parks and Greenery Project Coordination Office on the second floor of Rest House)
• Number of participants: Up to 2 to 3 applicants will be required.
• Application: Please apply by e-mail to Northern Parks and Greenery Project Coordination Office (mk-hokubukoen@city.yokohama.lg.jp) by Friday, November 22, 2024. The subject of the e-mail should be [Children's Nature Park Customer Attraction Event Preliminary Briefing Session].
• Please be sure to call Northern Parks and Greenery Project Coordination Office (045-353-1166) if you have any inconvenience regarding the above schedule.

An event was held in the first phase of the proposal that became a candidate for action permission after the act permission procedure.

• Implementation period: May 17-May 19, 2014
• Event name: Yokohama Nature Week 2024
• Cumulative number of customers: 44,421
• Efforts to Ensure Public Interest: ①Events that contribute to the creation of the park's attractions and liveliness, (2) Prepare free rest spaces, (3) Dissemination of the park's attractions in line with information dissemination of events, (4) SDGs initiatives, and (5) Efforts that contribute to decarbonization

・Verification was conducted based on the results of implementation and interviews with business operators.
・A lot of content that can be enjoyed by parents and children was prepared, and the entire event was thriving, and participants evaluated it as a highly satisfying event. In addition, public interest initiatives and management on the day were also implemented without any problems at the business operator.
・On the other hand, only one project was implemented, leaving issues such as ease of application.
・As a future initiative, we will conduct a second trial with the aim of conducting multiple events, partially relaxing the conditions for open recruitment based on verification. For details on specific application conditions, please refer to the application guidelines to be announced in the future.

There was one application proposal, and as a result of the examination, the content of the proposal by the next applicant was determined as a candidate for permission to act.
In the future, it will be implemented after determining the implementation schedule and taking necessary procedures. .

Green Environment Bureau Northern Parks and Greenery Project Coordination Office
65-1 Oike-cho, Asahi-ku, Yokohama-shi (in Children's Nature Park)
Telephone: 045-353-1166
Email address: mk-hokubukoen@city.yokohma.lg.jp