Lessons from the Bees: The Rooftop Hives of Central Tokyo

Urban Farm DB summary

A feature on the Ginza Honey Bee Project ('Ginpachi'), a nonprofit founded in March 2006 by Tanaka Atsuo, which installed beehives on the roof of the Kami Parupu Kaikan building in central Tokyo, drawing nectar from Hibiya Park and the Imperial Palace grounds within roughly a 3km radius. A decade on, the project has grown to 150 members, supplies honey products sold at the Matsuya Ginza department store and honey cocktails at nearby bars, and has inspired more than 100 urban beekeeping projects nationwide as well as projects in South Korea, Taiwan and elsewhere in Asia.

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• 150

  project members(urban beekeeping)

  Social

  region

  Ginza, Tokyo, Japan

  year

  2016

  method

  null

• 100

  nationwide project count(urban beekeeping)

  Social

  region

  Japan

  year

  2016

  method

  null

• 3 km

  foraging radius(urban beekeeping)

  Design

  region

  Ginza, Tokyo, Japan

  year

  2016

  method

  null

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