north by north の仲間
わたしたちがnorth by northをつくっています。
大東 洋克 / Hirokatsu Ohigashi
株式会社キメラ 代表取締役 / Largo株式会社 代表取締役
2002年にGMOインターネット株式会社へ入社し、Webインフラ事業の統括本部長を経て、新規事業と海外事業の立ち上げに携わる。2009年にはGMOドメインレジストリ株式会社を設立し、国別ドメイン・地域ドメイン・企業ブランドドメインの事業を立ち上げた。2013年に独立後は、米国・東南アジア・日本国内でスタートアップの立ち上げや事業支援、インキュベーションに従事。2018年には株式会社CAMPFIREへ取締役COOとして参画し、プロダクト・マーケティング・海外事業を中心にグループを統括するとともに、融資型・株式型クラウドファンディングの立ち上げにも関わった。2019年から株式会社キメラ代表取締役として、新聞社・放送局・Webメディア向けにデータ分析とサブスクリプション支援事業を手がけ、2024年にはLargo株式会社を設立。東京でインターネットとスタートアップの仕事を20年続けたあと、生活と仕事の中心を北海道下川町へ移し、いまは道北を拠点に、事業を立ち上げるというこれまでの道具一式を、道北の山・川・海の担い手たちへ渡しながら north by north を組み立てている。体験をつくり出す仲間とともに、事業・企画・編集・運営・PRの側から全体の座組みを支える。
Hirokatsu Ohigashi
Representative Director, XIMERA Inc. / Representative Director, Largo Inc.
Ohigashi joined GMO Internet Inc. in 2002 and, after serving as General Manager of the Web Infrastructure Division, moved into launching new businesses and overseas operations. In 2009 he founded GMO Registry, Inc., where he led the launch of ccTLDs, GeoTLDs, and brand TLDs. Independent from 2013, he worked on startup incubation and business support across the U.S., Southeast Asia, and Japan. In 2018 he joined CAMPFIRE, Inc. as Director and COO, overseeing product, marketing, and overseas business across the group, and played a role in launching lending- and equity-based crowdfunding alongside the existing reward-based model. Since 2019 he has served as Representative Director of XIMERA Inc., leading a business that provides data analytics and subscription support to newspapers, broadcasters, and web publishers, and in 2024 he founded Largo Inc. After twenty years of internet and startup work in Tokyo, he moved his life and work to Shimokawa, Hokkaido, and now — based in Dohoku — is assembling north by north by handing back his lifelong toolkit for building businesses to the people who work the mountains, rivers, and sea of the region. Experiences on the ground belong to the local implementing partners; Ohigashi stays adjacent, supporting the whole structure from the business, planning, editing, operations, and PR side.
村上 淳哉 / Junya Murakami
株式会社名寄新聞社 代表取締役社長 / 北海道知事認定アウトドアガイド
1947年創刊の地域紙・株式会社名寄新聞社の代表取締役として、名寄市・美深町・下川町を中心に、道北に根ざしたニュースを紙面とWebサイト「道北ネット」から発信している。2026年2月にはPR TIMESと包括業務提携を締結し、地域紙とプレスリリース配信サービスの相互連携としては全国初の事例をつくった。一方で北海道知事認定のアウトドアガイド（山岳夏山・冬山）でもあり、2015年から大雪山・道北・名寄・幌加内を主なフィールドに、登山と地図読み・火おこし・天気予測を組み合わせた、防災要素のあるガイドを提供している。自然観察保護指導員、MEDIC First Aid Basicplus 修了。活字の記者と山のガイド、二つの視点で道北を見てきた村上は、north by north が道北各地で重ねていく一つひとつの出来事を、地元に最も近い目線で取材し、言葉と記録にして外へ届ける役割を担う。
Junya Murakami
Representative Director, Nayoro Shimbun / Hokkaido-Certified Outdoor Guide
As Representative Director of Nayoro Shimbun — a regional newspaper founded in 1947 — Murakami covers Nayoro, Bifuka, and Shimokawa through its print edition and the news site Dohoku-net, delivering news rooted in northern Hokkaido. In February 2026, he signed a comprehensive business partnership with PR TIMES, the first such mutual content and distribution tie-up between a Japanese regional newspaper and a major press release service. He is also a Hokkaido-certified outdoor guide (summer and winter mountain), working since 2015 across the Daisetsuzan range, Dohoku, Nayoro, and Horokanai, where he offers mountain travel combined with map reading, fire-starting, and weather forecasting — skills that serve both outdoor fundamentals and disaster preparedness. He holds certifications as a Nature Observation and Protection Instructor and MEDIC First Aid Basicplus. A reporter's view and a guide's view — one region seen through two lenses — Murakami takes up the role of capturing the small moments that accumulate across Dohoku as north by north unfolds, reporting them with the closest possible local eye and delivering them outward in words and record.
田辺 信彦 / Nobuhiko Tanabe
フォトグラファー / ビデオグラファー / DJ
東京都杉並区出身。2017年からヨーロッパのシクロクロス世界選手権を追い続け、その最前線を国内に届けてきた日本有数のフォトグラファーで、通称NB。毎年1冊のペースで写真集『CROSS IS HERE』を刊行し、ポッドキャスト「Inner Frames」も運営している。2024年に道北・中川町へ移住し、翌2025年夏には札幌・桑園の「01. Outdoor & Life Shop」で、移住後に自転車・釣り・スキーを通じて撮影した作品をまとめた北海道初の個展『Green & White』を開催した。自転車、釣り、スキー、音楽。道北の空気を切り取る目を、north by north の記録にも貸してくれている。アクティビティの体験は、終わった瞬間から記憶に変わっていく。NBのカメラは、参加した人が自分でも気づかなかった表情や、通り過ぎた景色の手触りを、あとからもう一度手渡してくれる。
Nobuhiko Tanabe
Photographer / Videographer / DJ
Born in Suginami, Tokyo. Since 2017, Tanabe — known as NB — has photographed the UCI Cyclocross World Championships and the broader European race scene, becoming one of Japan's leading chroniclers of the sport. He publishes the photo book CROSS IS HERE annually and runs the podcast Inner Frames. He relocated to Dohoku's Nakagawa Town in 2024, and in the summer of 2025 held his first Hokkaido solo exhibition, Green & White, at 01. Outdoor & Life Shop in Sapporo's Soen neighborhood — a body of work made after the move, through cycling, fishing, and skiing. Bikes, fish, skis, music: the eye he brings to Dohoku air is the one he has lent to the record of north by north. The moment an activity ends, it begins turning into memory — and NB's camera returns to participants, afterward, the expression they didn't know they wore and the texture of a landscape they only half noticed.
坂口 智則 / Tomonori Sakaguchi
有限会社THE DAY 代表 / 石狩ウォーターパトロール 代表
札幌市出身。高校卒業後、夏は小樽市内の海水浴場でライフセーバー、冬はトマムなどのスキー場でパトロール員として活躍してきた。2008年に任意団体「石狩ウォーターパトロール」を立ち上げて代表に就任し、以来、石狩市から海水浴場の監視業務を受託するとともに、子どもへ水辺の安全を伝える「Jrウォータープロジェクト」を継続している。有限会社THE DAYを率い、浜益区では民宿日本海、海の家RED&BLUE、SUPツアー「RED&BLUE」を運営。冬期は名寄に拠点を移し、2020年からピヤシリスキー場内で飲食店「ログパノラマ」を、2023–24年シーズンからは1棟貸し民泊「名寄ベース」を、2026年からは名寄白樺カントリー倶楽部内のレストラン運営を担う。浜益の海辺でSUPと民宿と海の家を軸にした日本海の体験を差し出しながら、冬の名寄で培った運営ノウハウによって north by north の通年の実装面を支えている。夏は海、冬は雪山。海にも雪にも、事故を起こさないための視線が染みついている。
Tomonori Sakaguchi
Representative, THE DAY Inc. / Representative, Ishikari Water Patrol
Born in Sapporo. After high school, Sakaguchi spent his summers as a lifeguard on the beaches of Otaru and his winters as ski patrol at Tomamu and other resorts. In 2008 he founded the volunteer organization Ishikari Water Patrol and took its lead role; under contract with the city of Ishikari, the patrol has since watched over Ishikari Beach and run its Jr. Water Project, a long-running water-safety program for children. Leading THE DAY Inc., he operates the guesthouse Minshuku Nihonkai, the beach house Umi-no-Ie RED & BLUE, and the RED & BLUE SUP tour on the Hamamasu coast. In winter, his base shifts to Nayoro: since 2020 he has run the restaurant Log Panorama at Piyashiri Ski Resort; since the 2023–24 season, the whole-house guesthouse Nayoro Base; and from 2026, the restaurant at Nayoro Shirakaba Country Club. Offering the Sea of Japan through SUP, a guesthouse, and a beach house on the Hamamasu coast, he also underwrites north by north's year-round operations with the muscle built through his winters in Nayoro. Summer by the sea, winter in the snow: a lifetime spent in places where accidents must not happen has shaped the way he watches any space.
鈴木 謙友 / Kensuke Suzuki
アウトドアブランド運営 / イベント企画・運営
1984年、千葉県千葉市生まれ。大学卒業後、アパレル業界での営業職を経て、ドイツに本社を構えるBIRKENSTOCK社の日本法人に入社。医療観点から開発されたコンフォートシューズの扱いを通じて、フットウェアとフットカウンセリングの知見を身につけた。その後も外資系ファッション・フットウェア企業で経験を重ね、現在はアウトドアビジネスで独立している。自社ブランドの運営を軸に、屋外イベントの装飾・運営請負、キャンプ体験教室や焚火ディナー、フードイベントの企画、フットケアカウンセリングまで、多層な事業を道北エリアで展開。north by north においては、体験を装いと場所ごとつくり込む役割を担う。イベントの装飾と運営、食の企画、そしてフットケアという独自のレイヤー。ツアーの外周を整えることで、体験の真ん中が立ち上がってくる。
Kensuke Suzuki
Outdoor Brand Operator / Event Producer
Born 1984 in Chiba City, Chiba. After university, Suzuki worked in apparel sales before joining the Japan office of BIRKENSTOCK, the German comfort-footwear brand developed from a medical starting point. Through that work he built a foundation in footwear and foot counseling. Further years at international fashion and footwear companies followed, and he has since become independent in the outdoor business. Centered on his own outdoor brand, he runs a deliberately multi-layered practice across Dohoku: outdoor-event styling and operations, camp experience programs and bonfire dinners, food event production, and foot-care counseling. Within north by north, he takes up the role of fitting each experience with the right setting and the right surround. Event styling and operations, food planning, and an uncommon footcare layer he adds himself — by arranging the perimeter of a tour, he lets its center stand up.
澁谷 麻斗 / Asato Shibuya
1999年9月、高知県日高村生まれ。下川町の移住体験ツアーに参加したことが縁となり、2023年2月、鳥獣対策支援員として下川町役場・産業振興課に赴任。以来3年間、猟友会とともに鳥獣対策にあたってきた。2026年1月に地域おこし協力隊の任期を満了し、翌2月からLargo株式会社（きたつむぎ商店・肉のキクチ）および株式会社キメラに合流。現在も猟友会に所属し、山との関わりを続けている。下川町で3年間、鳥獣対策の現場と向き合ってきたこの人は、野生動物に対峙する側から、地域の食卓をつくる側へと歩みを進めた。山から降ろすものと店に並べるもの、その両側を知る担い手として、north by north の「食」の体験を、生産と流通の内側から支える役割を担っている。趣味はドラムと登山。
Asato Shibuya
Hunter / Largo Inc. / XIMERA Inc.
Born September 1999 in Hidaka Village, Kochi Prefecture. After visiting Shimokawa on a relocation tour, Shibuya joined the town's Industry Promotion Division in February 2023 as a wildlife-management officer through the Local Vitalization Cooperator program. For three years he worked alongside the local hunting association on wildlife response. His cooperator term ended in January 2026, and the following month he joined Largo Inc. — which operates Kitatsumugi Shoten and Niku no Kikuchi — and XIMERA Inc. He remains active in the hunting association and keeps his relationship with the mountains intact. After three years facing wildlife in the field in Shimokawa, he has moved from the side that meets the animal to the side that builds the local table. As someone who knows both ends — what comes down from the mountain and what goes onto the shelf — he takes up the role of supporting the food side of north by north's experiences from within the production and supply chain. Drums and mountains fill his off hours.
卜部 悠人 / Yuto Urabe
狩猟家 / 食肉処理・料理人
2001年12月生まれ、北海道八雲町熊石出身。酪農学園大学在学中の2025年、地域おこし協力隊として中川町へ移住した。2023年に始めた狩猟の延長で、増え続けるエゾシカの生息状況と食肉としてのポテンシャルを現場で体感し、自ら捕獲・精肉・販売まで一貫する食肉処理販売事業を立ち上げる。中川町の他の協力隊メンバーとともに飲食事業も手がけ、イベントでは自身の捕ったエゾシカを自ら調理して提供している。銃も包丁もフライパンも、同じ線上にある。山から食卓までを一人で貫通させる24歳は、north by north の中川拠点で、中川町の自然のなかで獲れるものを食べる場所まで連れてくるクリエイターとなる。アクティビティのあとの一皿を、山から直接支える役割を担う。趣味は釣りと山菜採り、そして冬のバックカントリースキー。
Yuto Urabe
Hunter / Cook
Born December 2001 in Kumaishi, Yakumo, Hokkaido. In 2025, while still a student at Rakuno Gakuen University, Urabe moved to Nakagawa as a Local Vitalization Cooperator. What began in 2023 as hunting grew into a full operation once he experienced the Ezo deer population and its potential as food firsthand, and he now runs a hunting-to-retail business covering capture, butchering, processing, and sale. Together with fellow cooperators in Nakagawa, he also runs a food service, and at events he serves Ezo deer he has taken and prepared himself. Rifle, knife, and pan all sit on the same continuous line. At 24, with mountain-to-table carried through by one pair of hands, he becomes the creator who brings what the Nakagawa wilderness yields all the way to the place where people eat — taking up the role of supporting, directly from the mountain, the plate that follows an activity at north by north's Nakagawa outpost. Fishing, foraging for wild vegetables, and backcountry skiing in the winter fill the rest.
横井 雅彦 / Masahiko Yokoi
北海道下川町生まれ、下川育ち。2014年に大学を卒業後、道内の市立病院で診療情報管理士として勤務してきた。もともと地元である下川町への愛着が強く、加えて「下川ふるさと興業協同組合」の事業の特殊性と希少性に惹かれたことがUターンの大きなきっかけとなり、2022年10月に同組合へ転職。「この仕事を残すことは下川町のためになる」という確信を胸に、若いうちから地域の発展に貢献する道を選んだ。現在は「地域資源を最大限に活用した商品開発でふるさと興しを目指す」という理念のもと、クマ笹、イタドリ、木酢液などの地場の有用植物を原料に、健康食品、サプリメント、化粧品、農業用資材などを製造・開発している。アスパラの切下やトマトのハネ品といった、これまで捨てられてきた未利用資源を収益に変える「もったいない」の収益化、さらにササ採りを通じた70代・80代でも参加できる柔軟な雇用創出にも取り組む。north by north においては、下川の森の恵みを、食と健康の文脈に翻訳する役割を担う。趣味はキャンプ、登山、スノーボード。
Masahiko Yokoi
Shimokawa Regional Industry Cooperative
Born and raised in Shimokawa, Hokkaido. After graduating from university in 2014, Yokoi worked as a health information manager at a municipal hospital in Hokkaido. A deep attachment to his hometown, combined with the realization that the Shimokawa Regional Industry Cooperative was doing unusual and genuinely rare work, led him to his U-turn move. In October 2022 he joined the cooperative, convinced that "keeping this work alive will serve Shimokawa," and committed to contributing to the town's development from a young age. Guided by the philosophy of "reviving the hometown through product development that makes the fullest use of local resources," he now manufactures and develops health foods, supplements, cosmetics, and agricultural materials from useful regional plants such as kumazasa bamboo grass, Japanese knotweed, and wood vinegar. His practice also includes turning previously discarded resources — asparagus offcuts, out-of-spec tomatoes — into revenue, a monetization of the mottainai ethic, and creating flexible work opportunities through bamboo-grass harvesting that lets people in their 70s and 80s take part. Within north by north, he takes on the role of translating the gifts of the Shimokawa forest into the language of food and health. Camping, mountains, and snowboarding fill his off hours.
和泉 竣也 / Shunya Izumi
1994年、札幌市生まれ。大学時代にカナダとフィリピンへ語学留学し、英語と多様な価値観に触れたことから、卒業後は製麺会社の海外営業や語学学校のマネージャーなど、英語を活かした仕事を重ねてきた。3度の転職を経て営業・WEBディレクション・マーケティングの実務経験を積み、コロナ禍を機に「専門性を確立する必要がある」と考え、全道の地域づくり支援やJICA研修生向け研修運営にも携わるようになる。都市生活のなかで中川町と出会い、自然と人の距離の近さ、そして小規模自治体だからこそ実践できるソーシャルデザインの可能性に強く惹かれて移住を決断。2025年5月より地域おこし協力隊として株式会社中川町地域開発振興公社に所属し、観光地域づくり、東京サテライトショップ運営、EC管理、ふるさと納税促進、特産品開発などに従事している。天塩川と広葉樹林が生む時間の流れや、野草・ハーブの力に着目しながら、中川町を癒やしと再生の拠点へと育てていく挑戦を続ける。north by north においては、中川町の観光地域づくりの実務と、関係人口の漸次的な拡大を担う。趣味は読書とバスケットボール。
Shunya Izumi
Nakagawa Regional Development Corporation
Born 1994 in Sapporo. During university, Izumi studied abroad in Canada and the Philippines, picking up English and a broader sense of what different lives can look like. After graduation he worked in roles that drew on that — overseas sales at a noodle company, managing a language school — and through three career moves built out his practice across sales, web direction, and marketing. The pandemic pushed him to pursue specialization in earnest, leading him into region-development support across Hokkaido and the operation of training programs for JICA trainees. While based in Sapporo, he encountered Nakagawa and was drawn in by the closeness between people and nature there, and by the kind of social design that only a small municipality can actually put into practice. In May 2025 he moved to the town as a Local Vitalization Cooperator, joining the Nakagawa Regional Development Corporation, where he works on tourism and regional development, the Tokyo satellite shop, e-commerce, hometown-tax promotion, and local product development. Drawing on the pace of time shaped by the Teshio River and the broadleaf forests, and on the quiet power of wild herbs, he is working to grow Nakagawa into a place of healing and renewal. Within north by north, he takes up the practical work of tourism-led regional development and the gradual expansion of Nakagawa's community of ongoing connection. Reading and basketball fill his off hours.
鬼頭 めぐみ / Megumi Kito
千葉県習志野市出身。結婚後、さいたまで3人の子育てをしながら20年を過ごすなかで、傍らにあったのは「子育ても仕事も大切にしたい」という両立への葛藤だった。合同会社ままのえんでは、育児や介護、地域の役割といった女性たちが抱える多重なハードルを、自らも当事者として乗り越えながら、女性の眠れるスキルを社会に繋ぐ「場づくり」に奔走してきた。2011年の震災、そしてコロナ禍。社会の大きな揺らぎを経て見つめたのは、自分たちの手で暮らしと仕事をデザインする生き方だった。2022年、「子育て&農業」をテーマに、家族とともに北海道下川町へ移住。未経験から飛び込んだ農業の世界で3年間の研修を重ね、2025年、50歳という節目に農地を継承し、フルーツトマト農家MKファーム北海道として新たな歩みを始めた。「どこにいても、何歳からでも、人は変われる」——その姿を自ら体現しながら、下川の豊かな自然のなかで次なる課題解決への挑戦を続けている。north by north においては、下川の大地で育てたフルーツトマトなど、食の体験と農の体験の担い手となる。
Megumi Kito
MK Farm Hokkaido / Mama-no-En LLC
Born in Narashino City, Chiba. After marriage, Kito spent twenty years raising three children in Saitama, always carrying the quiet tension of wanting to hold both family and work as equally important. Through Mama-no-En LLC, she worked on creating spaces that connect women's dormant skills to society — navigating, as a fellow insider, the layered barriers of childcare, caregiving, and community roles that women so often carry. The Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, and then the pandemic: through these large social disturbances, what came into focus was a way of living in which people design their own work and life with their own hands. In 2022, with "raising children and farming" as her guiding theme, she moved with her family to Shimokawa, Hokkaido. She entered the world of agriculture with no prior experience, completed three years of training, and in 2025, at the landmark age of 50, took over farmland of her own — beginning a new chapter as a fruit tomato farmer under the name MK Farm Hokkaido. Living out the belief that "wherever you are, at whatever age, a person can still change," she continues to take on the next challenges in Shimokawa's rich nature. Within north by north, she takes up the role of placing the fruit tomatoes grown in Shimokawa's soil at the very center of the food experience.
黒田 峻平 / Shunpei Kuroda
神戸大学農学研究科 博士後期課程
2001年4月生まれ、埼玉県草加市出身。北海道大学農学院修士課程を修了し、その後神戸大学農学研究科博士後期課程に進学して現在に至る。北海道大学在学時の講義で、道北に移り住み、そこで仕事や活動をつくっている「移住者」たちの存在を知ったことが原点となった。都市部を出て"わざわざ"田舎へ居を移すという行為そのものに惹かれ、2023年に道北を初訪問。以来、継続的に道北を訪問し、地域行事でのボランティア受け入れの運営補助などを担いながら、実践も交えた調査を続けてきた。研究テーマは、移住者が地域の人と繋がりながら地域に馴染んでいく仕組み——その仕組みの内側に自ら入り、観察するというスタイルで取り組んでいる。訪れる人を「お客様」から「コミュニティの当事者」へと変えていくnorth by northの取り組みに共感し、2026年4月にnorth by northと合流。地域と接点を持った人々がコミュニティの当事者へと繋がっていく実践を記録・分析し、得られた知見を地域に還元する役割を担う。趣味はサッカー観戦（浦和レッズ）と野球観戦（阪神タイガース）、そしてPerfume。
Shunpei Kuroda
Doctoral Program, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University
Born April 2001 in Soka City, Saitama. Kuroda completed his master's program at the Graduate School of Agriculture at Hokkaido University before advancing to the doctoral program at Kobe University's Graduate School of Agricultural Science, where he continues his research. The starting point for everything that followed was a lecture during his time at Hokkaido University, where he first learned about the people who had chosen to relocate to northern Hokkaido and were now building work and lives of their own there. Drawn to the very act of leaving the city to deliberately move to the countryside, he made his first visit to Dohoku in 2023. He has been visiting the region continuously ever since, supporting the operational side of local events — including the hosting of volunteers — while carrying out fieldwork that combines research with hands-on practice. His research focuses on the mechanisms by which newcomers come to belong to a place through their connections with local people, and he pursues those mechanisms by stepping inside them himself. Drawn to north by north's approach of turning visitors from "guests" into "members of the community," he joined the team in April 2026. His role is to record and analyze the practice of how people first connect with a region and gradually come to share its life as full participants — and to feed those findings back to the region itself. Football (cheering for Urawa Reds), baseball (Hanshin Tigers), and Perfume fill his off hours.
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