Forest of Toyota (Japan)

Forest of Toyota is company-owned forest in the suburbs of Toyota City. It was developed in 1997 to conduct experiments and research on exploiting Satoyama with the aim of achieving coexistence with nature. Walking paths were created in the forest, the Satoyama Learning Center Eco-no-Mori House was built, and environmental education programs designed to enable participants to experience nature directly are conducted.

Satoyama

A Japanese term applied to the interface between cities and nature that have been utilized by people. Until about the mid-1960s, Satoyama played important roles in people's lives, but their use declined as a result of energy innovations and their condition deteriorated. Forest of Toyota strives to create a twenty-first century Satoyama based on the model of the earlier Japanese Satoyama.