The first Sunday in June in Shibuya Ward is known as "Ototo Sunday!

Until last year, the entire Shibuya Ward had a "Neighborhood Sunday...? was in the air throughout Shibuya Ward, but this year, it seems that every community and organization was planning a spirited event. In the Sasahatahatsu area, especially in the Honmachi, Hatsudai, and Hatagaya neighborhoods, large-scale events were being held, and many people were asking themselves, "What? Which one should we go to!" I was seriously worried.

And after much deliberation, our family chose the "Town Cultural Festival" held by the Hatagaya Naka-cho Town Council, centered on Nakahata Elementary School.

The event was divided into three areas, Nakahata Elementary School, Cross Street, and Shindo Park, each with many booths including bake sales, flea markets, and workshops.
I was wondering where to start from, but I decided to participate in the "Machiiku Tankentai" stamp rally, a well-known trash pickup event in the Sasahatahatsu area, and found that I could naturally visit all three areas just by going through the stamp rally! I found that I could naturally visit three areas just by going through the stamp rally!

Cross Street is a hodgepodge of nostalgic food stalls, including target shooting and yakisoba noodle stalls, as well as morning vegetables for sale and a dance competition in the middle of the street.
What especially stuck out to my 5-year-old daughter was the sundae shop. The system allows customers to top their ice cream with as many sweets as they like, and the atmosphere is so fancy that it makes one wonder if this is the only place on Takeshita-dori. The atmosphere was so fancy. The girls were changing the color of their eyes and vying for the colorful and cute sweets.

After a maze of back roads from Cross Street, you will arrive at Shindo Park.

Here, food stalls were all over the place. While they were hungry, they could spend their free time sitting and enjoying picture story shows, singing songs, and playing on the playground equipment. The "inclusive playground" wheelchair experience, always popular with children, was also held on the boardwalk by the park.

Incidentally, there is a quiz at the stamp rally checkpoint, a very difficult question that cannot be solved without knowing the history of the shopping district that used to be in this area!
But as I thought seriously about it, I naturally thought back to the old days, "Wow, this is what the landscape used to be like. (The correct answers were written on the back roads, so there was no problem at all even if I did not know the correct answer to the quiz.)

After completing all the stamp rally, we returned to Nakahata Elementary School, the starting point, to answer the questions and receive sweets as prizes.
My daughter continued to play on the "Anywhere Playground" and elementary school playground equipment that was being held in the school yard while I browsed the flea market. I got three pieces of children's clothing from the "Everything is 10 yen" area.

The "Ottonari Sundays" project was started with the concept of "getting acquainted with local people. True to its purpose, as we played, we naturally heard stories about the history of the Hatagaya neighborhood from the elderly and talked with people who had opened stores.

As my family has been visiting many events in the Sasahatahatu area, I feel that we are getting to know each other before we know it. The event also made us realize that the more people connect with each other, the more attached they become to the place where they live, and the more comfortable they become.