Satoyama Experience

Satoyama Experience

美ら地球のSatoyama Experience.
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Best SHIRAKAWAGO alternative!? - HIDA FOLK VILLAGE in TAKAYAMA!

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Hida Folk Village is an open-air museum in Takayama that showcases traditional Gassho-Zukuri houses of Hida region. It is a great way to experience the traditional architecture of this region without going to Shirakawago.

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SATOYAMA EXPERIENCE Winter Season

SATOYAMA EXPERIENCE is a tour operator in Hida-Takayama. It has been running since 2009. Their tours focus on local experiences in countryside in Hida Region in Japan.
Please take a look their Website if you get interested in the video !

Satoyama Holiday in Japan 2020 What is Satoyama?

Satoyama Holiday in Japan 2020 What is Satoyama?

Tokyo Olympic Games will be held in 2020 and many people are planning to come to Japan. A lot of people are probably thinking of going to Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto.

However these cities don’t represent Japan. If you want to see the authentic Japan, you must come to Satoyama.

What is Satoyama?

In Japanese, the word Satoyama symbolizes ‘sustainability’. Sato means livable or arable land, and the word yama means mountains or hills. Satoyama usually describes an area which contains some mountains or forests, rice fields or vegetable fields, and residences. The area has self-sustaining power by circulating resources within. The mountains have the sources of a river which produces water to the rice fields. The trees can be used for building houses or furniture, and remaining wood can be used as firewood. Fallen leaves are used as fertilizers for rice fields and vegetable fields. Straws or rice bran from the rice fields after harvesting rice can be used as fertilizers, too. I included the residences in this ecosystem because humans can play a big role in this system of circulation. We frequently go to the mountains to cut trees or collect fallen leaves, and this human activity is crucial to sustaining the mountains.

In this video, I’ll show you what Satoyama looks like by introducing my neighborhood in Hino Town, Shiga Prefecture, which is next to Kyoto.

If you are visiting Kyoto anyway, you should consider coming to Hino Town since it is only one and half hours from Kyoto.

My name is Sachiaki Takamiya. I am a writer and a sustainable life coach. I am the founder of a philosophy called Zen and a Way of Sustainable Prosperity. Short form is ZENWSP. This is a philosophy to help you become sustainably prosperous, healthy, happy, and enlightened.

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IKIGAI BUSINESS: The Secret of Japanese Omi Merchants to Find a Profitable, Meaningful, and Socially friendly Business


Zen and a Way of Sustainable Prosperity: A Teaching of Omi Merchants Who Thrived In 18th Century Japan


blog Omi-merchant's way of Sustainable Prosperity


Newsletter of Omi-merchant's way of sustainable prosperity


Satoyama Near Lake Biwa: What is Satoyama?


Why Should Foreign Tourists Visit Shiga Instead of Visiting Tokyo or Kyoto?


Visiting the Land of Omi-merchants Part 1: Omi-Hachiman


Visiting the Land of Omi-merchants Part 2: Hino


Visiting the Land of Omi-merchants part 3: Satoyama Cycling in Hino


Visiting the Land of Omi-merchants part 4: Satoyama Experience


Visiting the Land of Omi-merchants Part 5: Shiga, the Environmental Capital of Japan

Cycling in Hida-Furukawa

On a cycling tour of the area around Hida-Furukawa with Mijuki of Satoyama Experiences

Cycling@Hida Furukawa　サイクリング＠古川

[HD] Satoyama II Japans Secret Watergarden

The wonderful film about the charming nature of Japan
BBC Documentory

Satoyama, Japan's secret water garden

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Satoyama in central Japan is one of the most peaceful place where the seasons' rhythms rule - where centuries of agriculture and fishing have re-shaped the land, yet where people and nature remain in harmony. Here - over a thousand years - towns and villages have developed a unique system to make springs and water part of their homes. From inside these homes, the streams pour into Japan's largest freshwater lake, Lake Biwa - an area 5 times the size of Paris - near the ancient capital of Kyoto. This is a habitat so precious the Japanese have a special word for it: Satoyama - villages where mountains give way to plains. They are exceptional environments essential to both the people who maintain them and to the wildlife that now share them.

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NHK
Documentary hosted by David Attenborough

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furukawa hanabi

August 13th 2014
fireworks Furukawa

Hida Takayama

Sanmachi district in Takayama, Gifu prefecture is
one of important traditional building preservation areas.
The old town is called “Furui-Machinami” and it consists of three narrow streets, which are central part of castle town, Kami-Machi, and Shimo-Machi.Water flows continuously under the eaves through the rows of latticed bay windows. Japanese noren curtains of traditional shops
along the street. Important traditional building preservation area that people in Takayama are proud of.

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Episode 4 感受細緻北陸飛驒 (濃縮篇)

Episode 4【北陸飛驒】
Yurutabi Girl 北川富紀子小姐及佐佐木繭小姐，一起展開二人行的日本閒式遊之旅。今個初秋，她俩深入日本北陸飛驒地區，細緻感受當地的獨特的祭典文化及動人景緻。

悠閒寫意──奧飛驒溫泉鄉
深山莊


兩縣分界──乘鞍岳
岐阜縣

長野縣


漫遊古鎮──飛驒古川 單車遊
SATOYAMA EXPERIENCE


體會空中散步寫意──新穗高纜車


採摘新鮮蘋果──黑內果樹園


滋味無窮──飛驒牛會席料理
季古里


年度特色祭典──飛驒古川 狐裡火祭


日式和服體驗──飛驒古川 和服體驗 大洞

田舎から田舎へ　オッサン4人組のSatoyama Experience

田舎から田舎へ　オッサン4人組のSatoyama Experience
飛騨市古川では訪日外国人旅行者向けにSatoyama Experienceという里山サイクリングツアーが開催されています。『外国人が熱狂するクールな田舎の作り方』で有名なこのツアーは、地方創生、まちづくり、地域おこしといった分野でも注目されています。田舎暮らしや半農半Xな暮らしで一番ネックになるのが収入源をどう確保するか。インバウンドツーリズムを活用した田舎での仕事の作り方として参考になる事例です。僕らは滋賀県の日野地域でまちづくりに関わっているので、この事例を参考にしようと視察旅行に行きました。飛騨古川と近江日野はいろいろな意味で共通点があります。古川祭と日野祭という伝統的な祭り文化があり、古民家や里山があり、町の大きさも似ています。同じ田舎に住むオッサン軍団に別の田舎をどう映るのか。そしてSatoyama Experienceの感想は。

Satoyama Experience


Wonderful Life
ちょうどいい田舎暮らしとちょうどいい田舎づくり


グリーンラボ近江
滋賀県東近江市の水耕栽培農家


近江日野田舎体験


伯宮幸明（たかみや　さちあき）
作家、里山成功哲学コーチ。滋賀県日野町の里山で暮らしている。著書に『天上のシンフォニー』（講談社）、『百姓レボリューション』シリーズ、『里山成功哲学―みなが自由で幸せになれる近江商人の成功法則』、『Zen and a Way of Sustainable Prosperity』（里山成功哲学の英語版）（Ｚｅｎ・クエスト）などがある。『Zen and a Way of Sustainable Prosperity』は英語で書き、世界中のアマゾンで電子書籍として販売中。英語でのブログも開設し、近江商人の教えを世界に発信している。
ホームページ：Zen・クエスト
メルマガ「里山成功哲学」

（日本語ブログ）里山成功哲学コラム：
（英語ブログ）Omi-merchant's way of Sustainable Prosperity

～Hidden Japan Iya-Valley and other Wonders Tokushima , Shikoku

Nishi-Awa Tourism Area
Within the embrace of lofty mountains, time stands still.
Nishi-Awa is a pure land of unchanging patterns and human warmth.
When you arrive here, you’re struck by a sense of unexplored seclusion. It’s a place where one valley leads into another, disappearing into the mist. Little hamlets with patches of farmland cling to the steep mountainsides. There’s nowhere else in Japan like it.

Pathways wind their way right beside the farmhouses of these close-knit communities, where total isolation and limited resources have fostered indissoluble bonds and a spirit of cooperation. From the Heian period, the people of Nishi-Awa have welcomed strangers warmly, accepting them as hospitably as one of their own.
The unique culture that arose on these high mountain slopes fascinated scholar of eastern culture Alex Kerr, who saw the valleys of Iya as a Japanese Shangri-La. Today, many visitors from around the world come to experience its peaceful charm.

SATOYAMA

NOMA FILM

Japanese Countryside in Summer!!

Look at these rice fields!

A Satoyama Winter

In the winter vacation of 2017, I stepped into the deep Akame forest in Japan in pursuit of satoyama life. This is my second time joining international workcamp. Being a group leader this time, I got to see things in totally different perspectives and had a tiring yet exhilarating adventure.

Hida Takayama - Furukawa Festival 2019

The hospitality of the people in the city of Hida is unparalleled. Highly recommended to visit there and explore the food and culture.
Special thanks to our host Shouya Hora and to Eri Okura for inviting me to this memorable event and for everyone who joined us. Y'all guys are awesome!

Naraijuku - Japan’s Oldest Village

Naraijuku is one of the 11th villages that was on the Nakasendo, one of the main routes that linked Edo (the old name of Tokyo) and Kyoto during the Edo era (1603-1868).
It was an inn village where people would rest hence its name Narai-juku (Juku means in).

This is part of the “Travel with my doggies in Japan! 私のワンちゃん達と旅する！” project!

Thank you again to my backers on Kickstarter for making this trip possible. I bought extra postcards and gifts so it is still time to get that reward and the others, of course ????