Sustainable Travel Japan

Tokyo Tours for Nightlife and Deeper Insights on Hidden Japan Culture

Jay Allen has been the publisher and chief writer of the popular site Unseen-Japan since 2018 and living in Tokyo, Japan full-time since 2024 writing and guiding tours for Tokyo's nightlife and lesser-known capitol city gems. In this talk, Jay Allen has great insights about social issues, travel, history and culture as well as current news events and key issues worth discussing for a better informed international community. Looking forward to talking with Jay and learning more of the backstory and philosophy of his work and projects as well as their guided tours. https://unseen-japan.com/author/unseenjapanpress/ @UnseenJapanCustom Tokyo Tours: https://unseen-japan.com/unseen-japan-tours/ Articles by Jay Allen on UnseenJapan: https://unseen-japan.com/author/unseenjapanpress/ Safety Pin Self-Defense of Groping on Tokyo Trains: https://unseen-japan.com/tokyo-chikan-campaign-self-defense/

Japan Fixer-Upper Holiday Home Renovation in Kyoto Japan

Adrienne and Zealous Wiley are US based Palm Springs designers who fell in love with traditional Japanese houses and are living their dream by purchasing and beautifully renovating a 100-year-old machiya (traditional townhouse) in Kyoto, Japan. This live chat with Adrienne and Zealous gives us insights on their design decisions and steps of renovation as what led them to take on this new lifestyle. Their journey buying and fixing up a Japanese house started with @shumatsuopost and his team of experts for finding houses and getting the paperwork done. Zealous made this beautiful website of their renovation journey: https://higashiyama-machiya.com/ YouTube & Instagram: @psiminkyoto Machiya Journal on Substack: https://psiminkyoto.substack.com/

How running a language school in Oita Japan led to mentor program in Hawaii

This talk is a lightly edited version of a talk I did with my dad Jay Jarman 5-years ago on Seek Sustainable Japan. Still so many wonderful insights here on living a life and running a business with a focus on helping kids in need. Dad has now officially retired but as the founder of such a wonderful organization he is still very much a part of their fabulous work.LINKS https://www.commongrace.org/ http://www.malamamentors.org/

Sustainable travel, business and product updates for MAY 2026

Joy and Tove catch-up on travel, events, projects and products that focus more on a sustainable Japan

Bringing back Japan tea farm & silk house for new creative learning hub

Rick Grehan of image mill talks of his new project just an hour outside of Tokyo to revive an old silk-making house and tea farm as sustainable and regenerative as possible to bring it back to life as a new community creative experience and learning hub for Tokyo folks to engage with nature, local people and tap into a better work-life balance.Please help them raise funds for this project by donating a little or a lot on Campfire:https://camp-fire.jp/projects/932524/view

Travel to Kobe to see historic home designs - Old vs Imported Japan houses | Azby Brown

Azby Brown always has wonderful insights on Japan house designs old and new and the connections to history, culture and good craftmanshiphttps://azbybrown.com/about/

Sustainable Farm Tours, Education & Sheep - Thomas Kloepfer of Pitchfork Farms

Catching up with no-till farmer Thomas Kloepfer who runs Pitchfork Farms on Mukaishima island in Hiroshima, Japan. Thomas was inspired by Fukuoka-sensei to try no-till farming techniques in Japan and now balances farming with animals and various climate-change resilient crops on a sunny hillside in central Japan. Website https://www.pitchforkfarms.jp/about-3

APRIL - Short-Takes on Sustainable Japan - biz, travel & life

Falling in Love with Farming & Education in Kyoto - Chuck Kayser of Midori Farms

Chuck Kayser has been taking over abandoned farmland in rural Kyoto and Shiga Japan to create vegetable farms and do community workshops to raise awareness of the why and how of organic, natural farming and self-sufficiency. #sustainable #living #organic #farming #japan Chuck Kayser Website for Midori Farm Kyoto https://www.midorifarmkyoto.com/Watch all the talks with Organic Farmers in Japan on this Seek Sustainable Japan YouTube Playlist here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcyYXjRuE20GajKYIPFOfVexBBeLTXFHk&si=yhnTqYaHBc9uN8J_

Riverside Kyoto Traditional House Tour with Jeff Berglund | Minka Summit Event 2026

As a part of this year's MINKA SUMMIT event at the end of April 2026, we had the wonderful opportunity to tour keynote speaker Jeff Berglund's fabulous riverside MACHIYA in Kyoto along the famous KAMO river. Jeff shared so many fascinating stories of design, history and culture. Jeff's Website: http://www.jeff-kyoto.com/See the images from the house tour by watching the video version of this tour on YouTube: https://youtu.be/EXRVcgVcfEc?si=oLq_KdOFkl46A2w6#renovation #traditional #japanesehouse #machiya #minka #kominka #minkasummit #housetour #kyoto