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Projects

A database of circular projects in Yokohama. Filter by sector or circular principle.

Architecture & Interior

YOKOHAMA CIRCULAR DESIGN MUSEUM

The mobile museum presents circular living through design, materials, and local stories. A travelling exhibition that turns reuse into an engaging, hands-on experience.

Plastic & Package

Minato Mirai Circular City Project

What if an entire city worked together to go circular? The Minato Mirai Circular City Project connects over 30 facilities, companies, and citizens to make Yokohama net-zero by 2030.

Education

Coffee Grounds Art

Used coffee as a canvas? Discover Coffee Grounds Art, where leftover coffee is reborn as beautiful artwork and creative workshops. From waste to wonder, find how circular ideas are brewing in Yokohama.

Education

Circular Gacha

A capsule toy machine that you can play by putting a bottle cap instead of a coin. It provides an enjoyable learning experience of local resources and materials circulation.

Plastic & Package

Shonan Eco Project

Shonan Trading offers a physical experience of plastic recycling. It helps widen environmental awareness by pedaling, melting, and creating up-cycled products with your own hands.

Sports

eSPOGOMI

A social activity consists of the essence of esports and community cleanup. People bring different values and build good connections among the community while enjoying achieving SDGs.

Food & Biomass

StockBase

StockBase donates unneeded emergency supplies from companies to people in need. They circulate the foods and other items within the local community and reduce food waste.

Architecture & Interior

TENTO

The shared office built with thinned wood Yamakita machi in Kanagawa Prefecture. The office is based in the co-working space "mass x mass" in Naka-Ku, Yokohama, and is expanding to other areas.

Food & Biomass

Web Iikamo Ichi

Web Iikamo Ichi is a web platform that offers a monthly marché online. You can find many Yokohama-made sustainable groceries and other products.

Electronics

ZERO PC

“ZERO PC” is the computer upcycling project led by People Port Inc trying to make the environmental impact by their business zero and supporting domestic refugees and poor children.

Education

The Eco Picture Diary

Environmental journal Project is to encourage children to be aware of environmental issues and its solutions through making a poster. The project is held every summer to help create new circular businesses in Yokohama.

Energy

Yokoyoko Project

Yokoyoko Project is a project which intends to provide renewable electricity generated in Yokohama-cho, Aomori to the companies in Yokohama city, Kanagawa. With the system of blockchain which is provided by Minna-Denryoku, Inc., the project make it possible to certify where the electricity came from.

Architecture & Interior

Nite hi WORKS

"Nite hi WORKS" is an art project by artist Minoru Inayoshi and actor Azusa Watanabe. The concept is "changing something from the original to something now" by unexpectedly and freely adding different languages ​​(ideas) from different eras, cultures and many other things "different."

Education

Fab lab Kannai

Fab Lab Kannai is a manufacturing laboratory for citizens in Kannai, Yokohama. It functions as a local manufacturing base, cooperating with co-working spaces in the area for start-up companies, and developing business labs in local community spaces as there are several 3D printers, sewing machines…

Plastic & Package

buøy

"reBirth" is a project to transform discarded ocean plastic into beautiful traditional crafts. The project produces beautiful molded plates while mixing different types and colors of plastic materials. The idea was created by “Plas+tech project” which is led by Techno Labo Co., Ltd.

Architecture & Interior

Y-Wai Hiroba

Y-Wai Hiroba is a community space and shared office created by renovating a vacant house in Isogo ward, Yokohama.The first floor is a community space where locals can get together and hold meetings, and the second floor is a shared office that welcomes local businesses.…