Hyogo Field Pavilion
Our Field, Our SDGs
In 2025, the Osaka Kansai Expo will be held under the theme "Designing a Future Society Where Life Shines." In Hyogo, special SDG projects will be implemented where local people take the lead in showcasing the actual sites of activities in their region, inviting many to come see, learn, and experience.
- Hot spring experience using natural energy
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Learning about Culture and Lifestyle / History / Ecology
- Experience boiling locally produced things like wild plants, vegetables, rice, etc. at Arayu hot spring source, where 470 liters of 98℃ hot spring water gushes out per minute.
- The high-temperature hot springs are utilized not only by the inns' hot springs but also in the daily lives of local residents, and taking on the challenge to guide efforts of new possibilities such as power generation, cultural life without having to rely on fossil fuels, and electricity.
- I want to know, eat, and touch! The roots of Japanese Wagyu: Tajima beef
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Learning about Nature / Food / Industry & Technology / Culture & Lifestyle / History / Ecology
- World renowned Tajima beef. Learn about what kind of cow Tajima Beef comes from by hearing about it from historical materials and other explanations at the Tajima Cow Museum located within the park.
- A comparison tour of the old and new Kinosaki Onsen town (The tour uses voice guidance and old map of the town)
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Learning about Culture and Lifestyle / History
- Experience the town planning and history of Kinosaki Onsen as you tour the streets of Kinosaki Onsen, which celebrates the 100th anniversary of the town's reconstruction from the "North Tajima Earthquake" that occurred in 1925.
- An experiential program that combines past and present with explanations while comparing old maps from the Meiji era and current maps of Kinosaki Onsen with a guide.
- Creating a local environment taught by storks who have returned to the wild
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Learning about Culture and Lifestyle / Ecology
- Observation: Observation of storks with park guide
- Lecture: About returning storks to the wild and the natural Environment
- Visit: Choose a program according to your desired content and length of stay from "Tours inside the Toyooka City White Stork Culture Museum"
- Hands-on experience making bags and leather accessories using Toyooka Kaban's bag making technology
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Learning about Industry and Technology / Ecology
- Learn about cowhide, the material used for bags, from the perspective of SDGs, and experience making bags that make use of the material's quality, as well as making leather accessories using scraps from bag production.
- Introducing the “Toyooka Bag Upcycled from Waste Fishing Nets (production of bags that reuse fishing nets)”, initiative that has been underway since 2021
- Kannabe Highland Full Activity Experience
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Learning about Nature / Culture and Lifestyle
- "Kannabe Highland Geo Tour" (managed by the Tourism Association) Walk around Kannabe Highlands, a plateau area of the San'in Kaigan Geopark, which has been certified as a Global Geopark, with a guide.
- "Lava Flow Trekking" (managed by NPO Kannabe Nature School): Learn about the unique climate created by volcanoes, such as the only crater in the Kinki region and lava flows produced during eruptions.
- Learning about stork-based farming methods and experiencing rice harvesting
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Learning about Nature / Food
- Learning about farming methods that foster storks (Stork Culture Museum)
- Experience harvesting rice made by the stork-based farming method, sample the rice (freshly cooked), receive a present of harvested rice (sent at a later date)
- Tour of eco-friendly country elevators from outside (watch a DVD before hand)
- Toyooka Theater Festival 2025
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Learning about Culture & Lifestyle
- Based on the concept of "sustainable town development starting at the Toyooka Theater Festival", old folk house and vacant stores will be used as venues, and the magnificent nature of the San’in Kaigan Geopark and shrines will be the venue, and you can enjoy the theater while feeling the beautiful nature of Tajima and the history of the town.
- Yabu City Bamboo Lighting Project
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Learning about Nature / Culture & Lifestyle / Ecology
- "Bamboo Light" production workshop (drill a pattern into cut bamboo. After completion, place a light inside and enjoy the illumination of the bamboo.)
- Smile Experience (harvesting + farming experience)
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Learning about Nature / Food / Industry & Technology / Culture & Lifestyle
- Full-fledged agriculture experience such as harvesting seasonal vegetables, shipping arrangement and bagging. Followed by sowing and planting depending on the timing.
- A tour-type experience program where you can experience farming while visiting fields and greenhouses where a wide variety of vegetables (approximately 30 types) are grown.
- Bagged vegetables can be packed in special boxes and taken home as souvenirs.
- Experience the superb view from the Amarube Railway Bridge "Sky Station Observation Facility"
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Learning about Nature / Industry & Technology
- With your guide, you will learn about the role played by the Amarube Railway Bridge, the lessons learned from the train accident, and the history of Amarube, which was developed along the San'in Kaigan Geopark.
- Take the Amarube Crystal Tower (elevator), a direct elevator to JR Amarube Station, located about 41 meters high, and enjoy the spectacular view from the old tracks and observation deck. (If the timing is right, you can watch the trains arrive and depart.)
- Asago travel like you live here
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Learning about Nature / Food / Industry & Technology / Culture & Lifestyle / History
- A program where you can stay at "IKUNO Stay", a lodging facility repurposed from an old private house, visit local people on an E-Bike, experience harvesting, tea parties, country cooking, and enjoy the "real'' rural life.
- Stork Tourism "EN" Journey to discover the stories of the Oriental White Stork
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Learning about Nature / Food / Industry & Technology / Culture & Lifestyle / History / Ecology
- In order to restore the landscape where storks were once commonplace, we have prepared various experience plans that trace the path from the extinction of the storks to their return to the wild, to the present day when humans and storks live together.
- Based on (1) Toyooka City Oriental White Stork Culture Museum, (2) Hachigoro's Toshima Wetland, and (3) Kinosaki Onsen, we will coordinate according to the wishes of the visitor.