Why You Should Visit
Preschoolers and elementary school kids try real jobs with businesses from Awaji Island, get paid in mocca—a children's currency made of wood—and spend it at the on-site market. Held at the Awaji Shinkin Bank head office annex in Sumoto as a pre-event for the bank's 90th anniversary, it brings together 29 businesses including a builder, farms, a gelato shop, an incense makers' cooperative and a car repair shop. The appeal is going through working, getting paid and deciding how to spend it all in one day. The job experience needs advance sign-up (150 places), but anyone can walk in to shop at the market.
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Essentials
- location
- Awaji Shinkin Bank Head Office Annex, Sumoto
- period
- November 21, 2026 (Sat)
- Time
- 10:00–16:00 (market from 11:00)
- cost
- Free (entry is also free for those not joining the job experience)
- Links
- Kobe · Gluten-free
- access
- About 7 minutes (2 km) by car or taxi from Sumoto Bus Center, where highway buses stop. By car, about 7 minutes from the Sumoto IC on the Kobe-Awaji-Naruto Expressway.
- TICKETS / REGISTRATION
- The job experience (for preschool and elementary school children, 150 places) requires advance sign-up by a parent via the application form. No sign-up is needed to visit or shop at the market.
- NOTE
How the day works
- Try a job at an exhibitor's booth
- Receive mocca, the wooden children's currency, when you finish
- Spend mocca at the on-site market (from 11:00)
Exhibitors as of September 24 (in no particular order)
- Shibata Komuten / Jibun Jishin / Hiraoka Farm / Kaiku / Bansho Auto / Noguchi Giken
- Nosha / starbase・enna / OH! MY CHURROS AWAJI
- Oki Bussan / Shiu Awaji Shokusai / Awajing / Hyogo Incense Cooperative / Hoshi no Kajitsuen / KOZORASOU
- 168 Gelato Caffe / Fukimodoshi no Sato / Cardamom / Book&Coffee coyomi / Tatsumi
- Mori no Ki Farm / Okashitsukasa Sakaedo / Awajishima Milk / Yamamoto Shoten / Awaji Yakult / Katadoru
- Saga Shoji / H2R Japan / Hirota Securities
*Details of each job will be posted on the Awaji Shinkin Bank event page
*Exhibitors and content may change
Basque cheesecakeBaked with rice flour, no wheat. Whole 12cm, serves 2-3¥4,700 incl. shipping (Japan only)FAQ
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