About Sasabase
A Showa-era house in Sasabe
becomes a place for learning.
Sasabase is a renovated Showa-era house in the satoyama village of Sasabe, northern Kawanishi, Hyogo. It is a community learning space that uses the local region itself as a campus — a “whole-community campus.” We aim to build a place where opening the front door makes everyone feel like family.
The place
A warm Showa-era house where people connect naturally
Through events and farm work at the old house, we create a space where people connect naturally.
The exchanges that grow from satoyama life gently loosen the boundaries between generations and backgrounds.
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Vision
An inclusive place where you can simply be.
What we are truly building is a place of belonging — a space where anyone can show up, at any stage of life, and find something meaningful.
- Learning across generations and backgrounds
- Open to everyone, regardless of circumstance
- Simply being here has value
We believe that small, sustainable places like this — gently connected to one another — are how social change actually happens.
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Education
Learning expands when school and community work together
What matters is that adults recognise and respect both what can only be learned at school and what can only be learned in the community.
When school and community collaborate, children's learning and possibilities become richer.
Activities
Sasabase currently runs four activities.
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Our belief
Small practices build the future
Many small places, each continuing at their own pace, gently connecting to one another.
We believe that this accumulation is what generates new forms of learning and community.
Access
Getting here
Sasabase is in the satoyama hills of Kawanishi — about 50 minutes from Hankyu Umeda by train, and just 3 minutes on foot from Sasabe Station. The “convenient countryside.”
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Come and visit us.
If you would like to visit or take part, please feel free to get in touch.
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