町内祭りの案内板

Aya became the person in charge of making the information board to place near the entrance as a student volunteer.

On the information board, not only the map of the venue but also the shop times and the place of the toilets must be written.

First Aya took out last year's information board from the storage room and checked what had been hard to understand.

The lines on the map were thin, and when you looked from far away, the corners were becoming hard to see.

So Aya used pens of different colors and decided to rewrite the walkway and shop locations separately.

After a little while, Mika brought a large sheet of paper and new tape.

Mika said, “Last year the venue changed a little because of rain, so it would be better to have arrows for that case too.”

Aya thought so too, so she added the entrance for rainy weather in blue beforehand.

The two made the letters for the yakisoba stand and the rest area, where people gather a lot, a little larger.

However, if you put too much information on the paper, it instead becomes hard to read.

For that reason, they made the words they used short and gathered explanations with the same meaning into one.

When it became afternoon, Yamaguchi-san, who was in charge, came and said that they should actually try walking from the entrance to the venue.

The two went outside without carrying the information board and looked at the street as if they were people who had come for the first time.

Then they realized that when bicycles lined up in front of the greengrocer on the corner, the direction of the arrows became hard to see.

Yamaguchi-san advised, “If there is one arrow higher up too, it is easier to find even while standing.”

After returning to the community center, Aya added a large arrow in the open space at the top.

Mika added beside the timetable that in the case of rain, it would not be canceled, but the venue would be changed.

Because they added that sentence, changes in the schedule also came to be conveyed immediately.

In the evening, a local person looked at the information board as a trial and said, “If it is like this, even children seem able to understand it.”

However, one elderly person told them that the letters were a little too low, and if you did not bend down, you could not read them.

So the two changed the height of the stand and made it so that the center of the information board would come to eye level.

By the time the work ended, it had become an information board that was much easier to see than at first and could be used with peace of mind.

Aya felt that an information board is not something for which it is enough just to place it there, but something made while thinking even about the movements of the people who look at it.

On the day of the festival, so that many people can walk without getting lost, Aya plans to check the entrance once more in the morning.