Worth improving this national-award-winning, local Japanese Sweet shop tied to a historical figure?

Ark4242-PGOArk4242-PGO Posts: 154 ✭✭✭


Title: あわ家惣兵衛 (Awaya Sobei, where "awaya" can be "suddenly" but the "ya" is the kanji for house/home, and Sobei is a local historical figure, shown in their logo, and the story on the wall, and has a locally enshrined Kannon statue)

Description: 地元の重要な歴史上の人物である惣兵衛にちなんで名付けられた、老舗の和菓子屋さんです。 店舗の壁には力持ち惣兵衛の実話が掲げられており、惣兵衛が庭先に祀った馬頭観音は大泉学園の文化遺産になっています。大きな石を持ち上げている惣兵衛の姿がお店のロゴになっています。 あわ家惣兵衛は70年以上もの間地元大泉学園に貢献しており、名物のどら焼きは全国菓子大博覧会で金賞を受賞しています。(Google translate is fairly accurate here. The "powerful man" is in reference to him lifting a large stone for a lord long ago)

Supplemental: お店は大泉学園駅直結のショッピングモール「グランエミオ大泉学園」の1階にあります。令和3年4月に、力持ち惣兵衛の馬頭観音はお店に移転されました。改訂された適格基準「探検に最適な場所」の「珍しいまたはユニークな地元のお店」に該当すると思われるので申請します。歴史的に重要な老舗であり、全国的な賞を受賞しています。(You can probably get the gist of it from Google again, but the nuance here should be very soft, like "it seems that perhaps it might fit the criteria for ~")


This shop has a great story, history, enshrined local Kannon, and has won national awards for their sweets. But on the other hand, it's located right in the multistory shopping mall attached to the train station, so there is no real shop-front here.

It's been rejected 3 times so far:

  • The real-world location of the nomination appears to have explicit or inappropriate activity, Nomination does not appear to be permanent or appears to be a seasonal display that is only put up during certain times of the year, Nomination was flagged for offensive content.
  • Nomination title or description contains a URL or HTML markup, The real-world location of the nomination appears to have explicit or inappropriate activity.
  • The real-world location of the nomination appears to be on private residential property or farm, The real-world location of the nomination appears to be sensitive (e.g. non-historic or culturally significant gravestones or cemeteries).


People seem to have a real hard time with towers in Japan lately. In this particular tower, it's a shopping mall on floors 1-4, and through some other, unconnected side entrance, floors 5 and up are condos, so people live here. The Japanese text for "PRP" is very unclear and basically tells you to reject anything where anybody lives, with no real nuance of single-family-house-only. And that's probably the reason for all the other location-inappropriate/location-sensitive rejections. The 2nd time around, I tried linking to the store's home page and a pin on Google maps where you can see the Kannon statue enshrined by Sobei, and clearly people can't tell the difference between URLs in the title/description and URLs in the supplemental text.

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