Local Zebra Tour Kyoto Tango

About this event

"Local Zebra Tour Kyoto Tango" is an interactive dialogue tour exploring the frontlines of regional management held in the Kyoto Tango region, which includes Miyazu City, Yosano Town, and Kyotango City in northern Kyoto Prefecture. While industries spanning over 100 years have flourished here, the region faces issues such as a shortage of successors and an increase in unused buildings. This tour focuses on the efforts of successors in their 20s and 30s who take over family businesses to embark on "second founding" ventures, as well as local companies that take over and revitalize closed public facilities and renowned shops. In particular, through themes such as second founding starting from family business succession, new regional succession beyond blood relations and family businesses, and local finance that makes succession possible, it deeply explores the actual sites of practitioners working to pass local resources on to the next generation. Participants enter the field of "zebra company"-type players tackling local social issues through business, listening to their philosophy, practical operations, and conflicts in their own words, and engaging in dialogue to take away insights for their own businesses, organizations, and regions. The tour has a 2-night, 3-day itinerary, aiming to let participants experience the frontlines of regional succession and gain hints for creating new businesses through town walks, site visits to Tango's craftspeople, and dialogues with practitioners.

Venue

Miyazu City

Miyazu, Kyoto