Diversity Hadano Project
We try our best to fulfill our duties as members of the planet and live a sustainable lifestyle in order to create a better future.
The beginning
This Japanese typical folk house with a blue roof was built in 1966 by my relatives. After they passed away, it was abandoned for 20 years.
You can’t start renovations from “zero”
When we started renovations in 2015, every room was full of clothes, books, and countless dishes. So we had to start from dealing with them first. We sold, gave away, reused, and recycled as many as possible to avoid “just throwing them out.”
Reusing the shelf we discovered in the shed as a book shelf.
Ideas came from all over the world
We asked local contractors to change all of the tatami and do the plumbing, but we did the painting, installing new floors, rebuilding walls, and gardening with our own two hands and the hands of backpackers. You can see unique ideas from all over the world in every corner.
The warmth of showers is the same, whether it’s powered by nuclear or solar energy
There was no hot water or cooking stove at first, so we decided to use electric for heating water and cooking, which are not common in Japan.
We buy electricity from the company who generates it from environmentally friendly sources.
This cooking stove produces way less radiation than IH.
Diversity Hadano’s future
We are going to install solar panels and a solar hot water heater on the roof. We will also use rain water for flushing the toilet.
The guesthouse’s name “Diversity Hadano” represents both the diversity that animals, insects, and plants create in the garden, and the opportunity for diverse people of different races, genders, nationalities, and ages to get to know each other while taking part in a sustainable lifestyle.
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