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Asuparan

アスパラン

Registered organizationIiyama Honcho Shopping Street Cooperative Association

Added to this catalog August 23, 2026

Asuparan
CHARACTER FACTS

Meet Asuparan

Asuparan is a mascot listed in our Japanese character catalog for Iiyama City, Nagano.

Registered area
Iiyama City, Nagano
Registered organization
Iiyama Honcho Shopping Street Cooperative Association

From the recorded profile

This is a translation of the source description. Dates, affiliations and plans refer to the source’s publication context, not a guarantee of current activity.

Asuparan is based on asparagus, a specialty of snowy Iiyama. He holds a teru-teru-bozu doll as a wish that “rain will not fall on people's hearts.” He was designed in the summer of 2013 by sixth-grade students at the then Akitsu Elementary School.

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