Kanagawa Soccer Team Takes a New Field: University Squad Moves Into Elderly Yokohama Community

Takeyama Central members exchange banter with soccer players working at the reception. (© Nomura Kazuyuki)

A calisthenics class. Soccer team vice-captain Umigai Shunsuke is on the left. (© Nomura Kazuyuki)

A view of the Takeyama Danchi (Courtesy Kanagawa Prefectural Housing Supply Corporation)

Takahashi Akemi of the Takeyama neighborhood association praises the students for making the danchi a brighter place. (© Nomura Kazuyuki)

Mizukami Kōji of Kanagawa Prefectural Housing Supply Corporation. (© Nomura Kazuyuki)

Ōmori believes that “Winning is important, but it isn’t everything.” (© Nomura Kazuyuki)

Vice-captain Umigai Shunsuke is congratulated on his team’s recent victory. (© Nomura Kazuyuki)

Hoshikawa Yoshihiro of the Takeyama neighborhood association. (© Nomura Kazuyuki)

Students serve the meals at the Takeyama Kitchen dining hall. They grow many of the vegetables themselves at a nearby farm. (© Nomura Kazuyuki)