{"id":5892,"date":"2025-09-05T17:01:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T08:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eki.uzunokuni.com\/?p=5892"},"modified":"2025-12-27T10:44:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T01:44:00","slug":"%e9%81%93%e3%81%ae%e9%a7%85%e3%81%86%e3%81%9a%e3%81%97%e3%81%8a%e5%85%ac%e5%bc%8f%e3%82%ad%e3%83%a3%e3%83%a9%e3%82%af%e3%82%bf%e3%83%bc-%e3%83%8d%e3%83%bc%e3%83%9f%e3%83%b3%e3%82%b0%e7%b5%90%e6%9e%9c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eki.uzunokuni.com\/en\/topics\/5892\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcement of the official character naming results for Roadside Station Uzushio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you very much for the many submissions for the Roadside Station Uzushio Official Character Naming Campaign.<br>The name of the character has finally been chosen from among the many entries!<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"swl-fz u-fz-xl\"><strong>Grand Prize] Uzubo<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"496\" src=\"https:\/\/eki.uzunokuni.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/info_20250905_img-1024x496.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5896\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eki.uzunokuni.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/info_20250905_img-1024x496.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/eki.uzunokuni.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/info_20250905_img-300x145.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eki.uzunokuni.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/info_20250905_img-768x372.jpg 768w, https:\/\/eki.uzunokuni.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/info_20250905_img-1536x743.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/eki.uzunokuni.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/info_20250905_img-18x9.jpg 18w, https:\/\/eki.uzunokuni.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/info_20250905_img.jpg 1880w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-balloon_box2\">Selector's Comment<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>At the new Michi-no-Eki Uzushio, we want to make it a facility that visitors can visit again and again with a renewed spirit as they travel through the four seasons.<br>We want to create a tourist facility where all visitors can feel a new and exciting feeling every time they come, an itch to come back again, just like a child.<br><br>The name \"Uzubo\" fits perfectly with these thoughts.<br>It is also easy to call and friendly, and has the atmosphere of a voracious and excited little child.<br>We hope that you will always be excited and enjoy the newly reborn Roadside Station Uzushio together with \"Uzubo\".<br><br><br>Some of the entries were the same as the Grand Prize winner in terms of sound and connotation, and after much hesitation, the final choice was \"Uzubo,\" but it was also one of the entries that regrettably missed the Grand Prize with a slightly different notation,<strong>Special Nearest-to-the-Pin Award.<\/strong>I would like to present the following<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Announcement of results<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><thead><tr><th>award<\/th><th>naming proposal<\/th><th>Number of applicants<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>Grand Prize<\/td><td>whirlpool design<\/td><td>2 persons*.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>special near-pin prize<\/td><td>whirlpool<\/td><td>1 person<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>special near-pin prize<\/td><td>vortex design<\/td><td>1 person<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>special near-pin prize<\/td><td>whirlpool bath<\/td><td>1 person<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Since there were two winners, we will award the grand prize to one of the winners chosen by drawing. The other person who was not selected in the drawing will receive a special prize.<br><br>\u25c6Grand Prize: 50,000 yen gift certificate for use at Uzushio Roadside Station<br>\u25c6Special prize: Michi no Eki Uzushio original product set<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you very much for your application.<br>We are very happy to see that people from all walks of life are looking forward to the reopening of Uzushio Roadside Station, whether they have a deep connection to Awaji Island or are just curious to visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please keep an eye on the future development of \"Uzubo\" as we prepare for the reopening of Uzushio Roadside Station!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-icon_info\">Uzubo, the official character of Uzushio Roadside Station, was designed by Uzunokuni Minami-Awaji Co.<br>Please note that this is a different character from the \"Awaji Uzusuke\" designed by timelesz Satoshi Matsushima that appears in the Uzushio Vision video.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you very much for the many submissions for the official character naming campaign for Michi no Eki Uzushio. We are pleased to announce that the name of the character has finally been selected from among the many entries! Grand Prize] Uzubo Comment from the Selection Committee [...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5896,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intro"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eki.uzunokuni.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eki.uzunokuni.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eki.uzunokuni.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eki.uzunokuni.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eki.uzunokuni.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eki.uzunokuni.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eki.uzunokuni.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eki.uzunokuni.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eki.uzunokuni.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eki.uzunokuni.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}