PROFILE
After working in sports culture and lifestyle media, he is currently with Sikaku. While working on advertising projects in a wide range of genres such as fashion and lifestyle, he is also the founder of "new outdoors, reconsider the universe," which is an acronym for "new outdoors, reconsider the universe.noru projectInauguration of the "K" Line Media business ".noru journalThe studio business, "noru studioHe is currently working on a new project, "Riding", which aims to rethink people's way of life through the diversifying "riding", and to provide content that will serve as a guidepost for the coming age:@ryomuramatsu
Living in three locations, the real way of life.
In the Ina Valley, beautiful ridgelines can be seen.
It is quite unusual to live in three locations, isn't it?
Muramatsu:To give you some background, we originally had two locations, one in Tokyo and the other in Nagano. I bought a second house in the Minami-Shinshu area, commonly known as "Ina Valley. Ina Valley is surrounded by the two Alps, and the mountain scenery is so beautiful that it is often used as a filming location.
Muramatsu:I initially left my Tokyo apartment behind and commuted to Nagano on weekends. It was a desolate villa area, with a land area of about 600 tsubo (about 1,000 tsubo now with an additional 400 tsubo added later). There was a house, but it was a shabby house with no bathroom and too cold in winter to stay over. The price was about the same as buying a new domestic car. But the land was very nice, so I thought it would be good to renovate the house when I saved up enough money.
What was it like living in two locations?
Muramatsu:I would work in Tokyo during the week, head home to Inadani with my family on Friday night, spend Saturday and Sunday, and drive back to Tokyo on Monday morning. Eventually my eldest daughter was born and went to preschool in Tokyo, and on Mondays I would make the "extreme trip" from Nagano to the preschool in Tokyo (laughs).
Ina Valley has a lot of untouched nature.
Muramatsu:In the Inadani area, there are kindergartens that practice nature and outdoor childcare, called "Mori-no-Yochien," which can be found all over Japan, and I have wanted to send my daughter there for some time now. My wife and I talked about how it would be nice to raise our child in such a natural environment. After that, we sold our apartment in Tokyo and used the money to remodel our house in Inadani, and my daughter and my wife moved there.
For three years!
Muramatsu:Now that my family is living there, I understand a little more about the community and mountain life than I would have if I had only gone on weekends. Even though I was only there for the weekend, my perspective was broadened and my way of looking at things changed. I also realized that I had not been taking proper rest until now.
Editing and advertising production is a job where work and private life don't always switch. It's like taking a break while cheating. Personally, I have always had a hard time taking time off, or switching from work to private life quickly, but when I went to Inadani, I was able to really take time off. My life has become more relaxed, and because I don't see my children and other family members on weekdays, communication with them has become more intense. It was three years of concentrated work during the week and concentrated time with my family on the weekends.
So it was a kind of ideal life.
Muramatsu:But then we had our second child, and I thought it would be a bit difficult for my wife to be a one-person operation. The house in Inadani is in the mountains, so it is not surprising, but the supermarket is too far away to walk to, and there are bears and other predators. It snows and we need firewood to survive the winter. It was when my eldest daughter was graduating from kindergarten, so I thought I would have to live like this for six more years until she graduated from elementary school.... That's impossible, isn't it?
To be honest, I was quite comfortable with the loneliness of spending time apart and being able to concentrate on work during the weekdays. But now that I think about it, of course there were quite a few things that were left out and things that were lost. So I talked with my family and decided to stop that way of living and think about how we could live together again as a family.
