Express yourself naturally
Not out of the ordinary,
I want you to live your daily life.
We don't want people to experience Yakushima as something out of the ordinary and then go home, but rather we want them to share our everyday lives and experience it as a different "everyday" experience to their life in the city.
This is because we want people who visit the island to be able to bring their natural selves back to their everyday lives in the city.
We don't want to treat you like a "customer," but rather like you as a person.
Although we cannot provide hospitable services, we hope to create a space where dialogue and connections can take place.
This is not a hotel,
it's a Commons.
This is a place where tourists can stay, like an inn. However, what we are trying to do is not to run an accommodation business, but to create a commons.
The word "commons" means "shared property." We want this place to be open to everyone, not owned or monopolized by a specific person, and to be a place that everyone can think of as "their own space," but that is shared with others. We are trying to develop this space with the intention of "eliminating boundaries."
When we are surrounded by beautiful nature, we become our natural selves, free from any constraints.
Whether you have a role to play, are in a hurry, make yourself look bigger or smaller. Leave the city mode aside for a moment and just be yourself. Express what comes to you as it is.
It becomes art created by each individual. People who live in the city become natural expressive people. We want to create a space for people who live like that. This place began to be created with that idea in mind.
Årc is also our art.
Facility
Creating a physical space
Land and Architecture
Architect
Peak Studio
Shunta Fujiki
The architecture is designed to create an environment where people can spend time as individuals and where gatherings with others naturally occur.
The designer is architect Toshihiro Fujiki, whose approach to architecture as something that is open to connections and society overlaps with Årc's philosophy.
We incorporate ethical products that are considerate of the global environment and people, to the extent that it is reasonable.
In addition, to ensure a stress-free life, we try to provide simple yet functional cooking utensils, home appliances, and bedding.
Things
It operates as a co-working cafe serving light roast coffee during the day and as a bar in the evenings, with the intention of it being a place where people living on the island can visit and where interactions can take place with guests staying overnight.
(The cafe and bar is scheduled to open around the end of May.)
Cafe & Bar
We are engaged in various profit-making and non-profit activities to update the world to one where money is no longer needed. #Autonomous decentralization #Circulation #Overlap #Sustainability #Organization #Management #Real estate #Money #Finance #Economy #Politics #Democracy #Regional revitalization #Community #Blockchain #Web3 #DAO
Kozo Takei
Social Activist / Social Systems Designer
We believe that "developing one's own potential will change reality and the world," and we support the transformation of people and organizations. We offer workshops to think about life and work, coaching to explore the purpose of life, retreats, and more.
Miyuki Origuchi
Organizational Development Consultant
Our vision is to "create a world where we can facilitate together." Creating a place where people can learn from each other and create new things. Our job is to increase the number of people who can create such places.
Takahiro Watanabe
Facilitator
He loves people and the Earth, and is interested in unlocking their potential. He is also an expert in energy, finance, and management. He has been involved in managing multiple companies in Japan and Australia, and is engaged in activities to breathe new life into people, organizations, and the Earth, and to create a regenerative society. He lives in Tokyo.
Hirokazu Suzuki
Regenerative Systems Designer
Management with Co-Owners
In order to create a commons, Årc operates as a cooperative, and the members who invest are called Co-Owners.
Årc is also another place for Co-Owners living in the city, who are also a relevant part of the local population.
Co-Owner
He designs and provides Transformative Trips®, journeys of learning and transformation. He has been working as an organizational development and human resource development consultant and professional coach for 17 years. In the past, he was a molecular biology researcher.
He will start the Årc project in 2021 as part of the Tokyo Yakushima Project.
Suguru Murakami
SHIFT-x CEO
Organizational and human resource development consultant
Professional coach (CPCC)
Born and raised on Yakushima Island. While exploring "How can we live together with the blue Earth?" for my beloved child, I work every day with the mission of "creating a culture that values me by connecting people with nature, people with other people, and people with society and updating relationships."
Takeshi Fukumoto
NPO HUB&LABO Yakushima
Yakushima High School Attraction Advisor
Yakushima Town ESD Global Advisor
I live in two places, Yakushima and Tokyo. Hoping for a world where people can respect the beauty of each other's wishes (= relationships like forests), I am working with the keywords "nature" and "dialogue". I spend my days sharing the insights I gain from life on Yakushima and the forest.
Ishiguro Akari
Forest bathing facilitator
NVC facilitator
Born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. Moved to Yakushima Town in 2020 as a volunteer for the local revitalization project during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her mission is to promote relocation and settlement. She is currently raising three elementary and junior high school students on the island!
Megumi Ikeda
Yakushima Town Regional Revitalization Volunteer Former
He designs and provides Transformative Trips®, journeys of learning and transformation. He has been working as an organizational development and human resource development consultant and professional coach for 17 years. In the past, he was a molecular biology researcher.
He will start the Årc project in 2021 as part of the Tokyo Yakushima Project.
Suguru Murakami
SHIFT-x CEO
Organizational and human resource development consultant
Professional coach (CPCC)
Born and raised on Yakushima Island. While exploring "How can we live together with the blue Earth?" for my beloved child, I work every day with the mission of "creating a culture that values me by connecting people with nature, people with other people, and people with society and updating relationships."
Takeshi Fukumoto
NPO HUB&LABO Yakushima
Yakushima High School Attraction Advisor
Yakushima Town ESD Global Advisor
I live in two places, Yakushima and Tokyo. Hoping for a world where people can respect the beauty of each other's wishes (= relationships like forests), I am working with the keywords "nature" and "dialogue". I spend my days sharing the insights I gain from life on Yakushima and the forest.
Ishiguro Akari
Forest bathing facilitator
NVC facilitator
Born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. Moved to Yakushima Town in 2020 as a volunteer for the local revitalization project during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her mission is to promote relocation and settlement. She is currently raising three elementary and junior high school students on the island!
Megumi Ikeda
Yakushima Town Regional Revitalization Volunteer Former
We are the members of Årc who are creating spaces on-site. We are also people who try to live as natural artists.
Facilitator
Creating a space for human intervention
Located directly south of the island. Quiet and warm, it's a great place for a retreat. It's also a popular area for people to move to. There are cafes, izakaya restaurants, and vegetable shops nearby, and within a 5-minute drive there are Onoaida Onsen, Hirauchi Kaichu Onsen, and a supermarket.
Access is approximately 35 minutes by car from Yakushima Airport, or approximately 1 hour by bus (approximately 6 minutes on foot from the nearest bus stop "Koidomari"). Approximately 25 minutes by car from Anbo Port.
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