October 4, 2017
7th International Forum on the “FutureCity” Initiative

Aiming for a Sustainable Value-Added
Creation City with Extensive Social Capital
Initiatives for SDGs to promote regional vitalization

Masashi Mori, Toyama City MayorUrban Vision – Developing a Compact Community
Realize compact community development with sites concentrated along public
transportation through vitalization of railway and other public transportation andconcentration of various urban functions, such as residential, retail, business, andcultural, alongside＜Conceptual diagram＞
Toyama’s “skewered” urban structure
Stick: Public transportation with a certainlevel of service
Food: Walking zone connected by the stick＜Three pillars for realization＞① Vitalization of public transportation② Promotion of residential living inareas along public transportation
infrastructure③ Vitalization of central urban area
ＦＵＴＵＲＥ ＣＩＴＹ ＴＯＹＡＭＡ-1-Formation of an LRT Network –People-friendly and eco-friendly LRT network fosters "connections"
City Train loop Line (opened Dec2009)

Future LRT Network
IwasehamaToyama North

Wago

Mizuhashi
Ai-no-KazeToyama Railway

Hasumachi

Toyama Light Rail (opened Apr 2006)
Services extended to below Shinkansen’selevated tracks (opened Mar 2015)

Ai-no-Kaze Toyama
Railway
ToyamaKurehaDaigakuma
eToyamaStationToyama EastToyama
WestJR Takayama LineCitytracks
Minami Toyama
Toyama SouthToyama
StationCity train Line

North-SouthConnection
Marunouchi

Inarimachi

Toyama Regional
Railway
Fujikoshi-Kamidaki

Fujikoshi
Conversion
to loop line

LegendOizumiMinami Toyama
StationToyama Light Rail
Toyama Regional Railway
City Rail
Conversion to loop line
North-South
Connection
Kamidaki Lineextended

7.6 km
6.4 km
0.9 km
0.3 km10.1 km

Total – 25.3km

ＦＵＴＵＲＥ ＣＩＴＹ ＴＯＹＡＭＡ-2-Formation of an LRT Network – Build the Toyama Light RailJapan’s first LRT system as revitalization of the JRToyama Port Line that had been losing users with apublic-installed, private-run model＜Line overview＞○Service launch: April 29, 2006
○Length: 7.6km（Length: 6.5km, street portion 1.1km）○Train stops: 13○Trains: Seven trains (two carriages per train)○Required time: About 25 minutes (Toyama Station North toIwasehama)○Operating interval: 15 minutes (10 minutes during rush hours)

フィーダーバス

フィーダーバス＜Improve operating service, etc.＞
Improve operating interval, add new stations, introduce low-floor
carriages, use IC cards, eliminate barriers, deploy attendants, operate
feeder buses, etc.

▲Former JR Toyama Port Line

▲Toyama Light Rail (Portram)
ＦＵＴＵＲＥ ＣＩＴＹ ＴＯＹＡＭＡ-3-ＬＲＴ Network Formation – City Train Circular Line
Developed a circular line through partial extension of the city train aimed atboosting the vitality of the central urban area and improving mobility in the city
center area; construction of street car line by the city using a two-tiered format for
the first time in Japan
Connect by raising＜Line overview＞○Service launch: December 23, 2009
○Length ： About 0.9km (circular line at about 3.4km)○Train stops ： Three new stops on the extended portion○Trains ： Three trains with new low-floor carriages

Toyama Station(planned)

Circular lineproject▲City train circular line (Centram)

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Creation of Vitality Using Road Space – Transit Mall Space
Conduct a social experiment of a transit mall in which just pedestrians andstreet-car trains are allowed so that many visitors can safely walk around【Project overview】① Timing: October 14 (Saturday) and 15 (Sunday), 2017
② Venue: Major mall (city center)③ Transportation regulations
・Street-car train operating as normal
・Ordinary vehicles prohibited④ Simultaneous events Open café, music event,sports event

ＦＵＴＵＲＥ ＣＩＴＹ ＴＯＹＡＭＡ-5-Effect of LRT Provision in a Compact City
Foster a “beneficial spiral” with positive impacts andchanges for the city and people
Change citizen awareness（foster civic pride）
Increase people living in town
（maintain and increase
resident population）
Change senior lifestyles
Increase visits by young
people to the central area
（expand opportunities
to be outdoors）Improve city
mobility (such as
LRT construction)

Selected town
→ highly sustainable city

Vitalization of the city center（generate activity andpromote private-sector
investments）
Vitalization of the regional
economy（increase tourism, etc.）

Enhance convenience and promote use ofpublic transportation（increase users = boost business incomes）
Improve the city look and appeal
ＦＵＴＵＲＥ ＣＩＴＹ ＴＯＹＡＭＡ-6-Promotion of Renewable Energy: Compact Hydropower Stations
Utilizing Water Resources
Aiming to deploy compact hydropowerstations that utilize abundant water
resources from the Tateyama mountain
range17のゴールと169のターゲット■Power output: 9.9kW ■Annual: 84,300kWh

Higashimachi and Higashi
17のゴールと 17のゴールと169のターゲット
169のターゲット
Shinmachi Citizen’s Center compacthydropower station

230の指標による達成度の評価

Promoting development
by companies andcitizens

けた
2030年に向けた標
国際目標 Compact hydropower stations

Built byToyama city

2030年に向けた
国際目標

Josai Park compact hydropowerstation■Power output: 88kW ■Annual: 689,200kWh
先進国・途上国
自治体等のＦＵＴＵＲＥ ＣＩＴＹ ＴＯＹＡＭＡ
全ての国に適用取組への期待-7-

Promotion of Renewable Energy – Private-Sector Operator Initiatives
Private-sector operators and others pursuing initiatives after Toyama City’s initialconstruction and promotion actions
No.4 Compact Hydropower Station (completedon May 11, 2015)

Operator: Josai Water and Land Improvement
Zone
2030年に向けた
国際目標
Power output: 30.2kW

Annual: 186,000kWh
2030年に向けた2030年に向けた（equivalentto roughly 45 ordinary households)
国際目標
国際目標
Annual CO2 emission reduction effect: 104 tons

※Plans to install additional sites

230の指標による達成度の評価

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Farming Vitalization Using Renewable Energy
Pursuit of “farming visibility” and a self-supply model that revitalizes mountain farmingvillages and local communities by installing compact hydropower facilities that utilize
farming water, greenhouses that harness underground water heat, and solar power
equipment＜Toyama City Farming Support Center＞

Heat pumps

Installation of solar power
equipment【solar sharing】

Heat
suppl
ySolar power

Installation of heatpumps to utilize
underground water heat

Installation of solar power
equipment

Installation of compacthydropower stations

Compact hydropowerPowersupply

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International Promotion of the Toyama-Type Farming Village Revitalization
Using Renewable Energy
Promotion of the Toyama-type farming village revitalization model that employs compact hydropower
stations using farming water and farming-related technology (rice polishers), taking advantage of Toyama’s
local features, to resolve issues of “water shortages” and “diminished farming

March 21, 2014: Concluded a cooperationagreement for project implementation with Tabanan
Province (Bali, Indonesia)

ProjectIssues

Power shortages
DiminishedfarmingIssue
resolution

Toyamatype farming
villagerevitalization

Technology harnessing regionalfeatures

Compact hydropower
stations using farmingwater
Farming-related
technology (ricepolishers)

Toyama regional features
Abundant waterresourcesExtensive farming
waterways
Mainly rice farming

ＦＵＴＵＲＥ ＣＩＴＹ ＴＯＹＡＭＡ-10-International Promotion of the Environmental Future City Project –Collaboration with Southeast Asian Countries
Toyama City’stechnology and knowhow
ToyamaTabanan, Bali (Indonesia)
2014.3 – Concluded an agreement
Promotion of compact hydropower station andsolar power technology

Iskandar Development Area (Malaysia)
Butuan2015.2 – Concluded an agreement
Promotion of compact hydropower station andsolar power technology

Butuan (Philippines)

Iskandar2016.10 – Concluded a memorandum
Provision of knowhow for low-carbon urban
developmentSemerangTabananSemerang (Indonesia)
2016.12 – Cooperation request Promotion ofcompact hydropower station technology
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Sixth-Sector Industrialization Farming Utilizing Ushidake Hot Springs –Wild Sesame ProjectThis is an environmental Future City project to build a plant cultivation factory in the Yamada
region that faces aging and isolation and promote “wild sesame” as a local product; it utilizes asixth-sector industrialization model that covers production, processing, and retail/sales with goalsof creating local jobs and realizing a healthy long-lived city
Wild sesame
Perennial plant in the mint family with medicinal
qualities; also called the “10-year” plant becauseof the belief that eating it can add 10 years to aperson’s life

Ushidake Hot Spring Plant Factory
Large high-quality
farming land (24ha)

Program effects

大規模耕作放棄地（24ha）を優良農地に再生して露地栽培○ Sustain mountain farming village life through local advancement and regional vitalization by creating a new local product○ Promote a sense of purpose for seniors by employing local seniors at the plant factory○ Realize a healthy long-lived city by using wild sesame, which contains valuable elements, in meals for hospitals andschools○ Utilize untilled land by moving to outdoor cultivation (from 2013)

ＦＵＴＵＲＥ ＣＩＴＹ ＴＯＹＡＭＡ-12-International Promotion of Wild Sesame – Concluded an Agreement with the Universityof Gastronomic Sciences and Conducting Joint Research Between Japan and Italy
Concluded a first-ever cooperation agreement as a non-Italian local government entity with Italy’s Universityof Gastronomic Sciences in May 2015 to begin Japan-Italy joint research to develop global healthy oil with
an ideal blend of wild sesame oil and olive oil as part of the wild sesame sixth-sector industrialization
promotion effort; announced “blended oil” results in spring 2017 following two years of researchItaly

University ofGastronomicSciences

JapanItaly Joint
Research

Shared visionJapan

UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMAINNOVHUB（Milan Chamber of Commerce,Oils Research Institute）⇒Wild sesame
3：

Olive oil7

Sixth-sector industrializationand overseas initiative forwild sesame branding

Italy

Provideknowhow tocompanies,etc.

New health oilToyama Mayor Mori (left) and Vice President of theUniversity of Gastronomic Sciences and Vice
Director of the Slow Food Association Silvio Barbero(right) conclude the agreement
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“G7 Environment Ministers’ Meeting
Commemoration”

Future-Oriented Tree Planting Experience forElementary School Students

Launching the tree-planting project for city elementary students as an environmental education project tolearn about the global warming reduction effect of forests in light of the One Tree Per Child initiative inBristol (UK) reported at the parallel session of the G7 Environment Ministers’ Meeting

Project for elementary students to plant in support of the future

What is “One Tree Per Child”?

Project period: Five years from fiscal 2017 to fiscal 2021

Tree-planting initiative thatbegan in Australia and spreadto Bristol (UK); aims to foster
eco-friendly people andenvironments by having eachchild plant a tree and growthroughout life along with thetree

Coverage: City elementary students (around 4,000 people)
Method: Conducted as part of school excursion learning at the Kodomo-no-Mura lodging facility
4-5 children to plant one seedling (all elementary schools will participate over five years)
Number of trees: About 1,000 trees (1.09ha)

First tree-planting event being held on October 11, 2017 (Wednesday)

Reduces CO2 byabout four tons
per year
ＦＵＴＵＲＥ ＣＩＴＹ ＴＯＹＡＭＡ-14-Targeting a Sustainable Added-Value Creation City

Development of Toyama-type urban management based on a compact city strategy

Environmental value creation
Reduce CO2
Revitalize the city emissions
Cyclicalcenteretc.

Social value creation

Economic value creation
Curtail government costs

Create new industries

Revive mountain farming
village society

Revitalize the city center

Advance local industries

Create jobs

Revitalize local communities
Foster social capitaletc.

Regionalmedicine

CareHealthSafeness,reassurance etc.

Development of a future open society through environmental, social, andeconomic innovations

Realize a sustainable society by creating a “highly satisfyinglife” that harmonizes quality of life and the environment
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