7 companies and 10 entries from the Tsubame-Sanjo area won Good Design Awards 2026. Shimomura Kouhan's Kajidonya won for the first time, and many companies from the Tsubame-Sanjo area were selected.
The results of the Good Design Awards 2026 were announced, and according to a compilation by the Tsubame-Sanjo Regional Industry Promotion Center, 7 companies and 10 entries from the Tsubame-Sanjo area received awards. There were 20 winning entries from Niigata Prefecture, meaning the Tsubame-Sanjo area accounted for half of them. Nationwide, 1,484 entries received awards.
Shimomura Kouhan (Tsubame City) won its first award for Kajidonya, a range of household tools. Other winners from the Tsubame-Sanjo area included Asahi Metal Industry (Tsubame City) for its ultra-thin compact wrench and T-handle hexagonal wrench with catcher ball, and Yoshida Metal Industry (Tsubame City) for its GLOBAL-PRO Bartender fruit-cutting knife. In Sanjo City, ANEX TOOL won for its Ginsho precision screwdriver, while Corona (Sanjo City) was also included on the list for its BREEZE BOX portable air conditioner. Snow Peak of Sanjo City won 2 entries, Noga Table and Field Rise, while Takagi (Sanjo City) won 2 entries, the SHARK SAW electrician's knife and ACG Hammer series, bringing the total to 4.
Among winners elsewhere in the prefecture were Adachi Paper Manufacturing (Nagaoka City) for its Paper Made Clipboard, Kikusui Sake (Shibata City) for KIKUSUI Kura GARDEN, and several products from Komeri. Regional initiatives, including Nagaoka Institute of Design's “Machino Zukoushitsu,” were also selected.
The Good Design Awards cover a broad range of fields, including architecture, facilities and activities as well as products, and have been familiar to the public for more than 60 years together with the G Mark. The list of winners from the Tsubame-Sanjo area includes the company names and generic names listed above.