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Building up a city of sustainable added value creation, full of social capital

-- Building up a future city, where people live up 90 years of lifetime --

Creating City Management Toyama Style, with “Compact City Strategy”

Daisaku Saito, “Seisakukan” (Policy Supervisor), Toyama City

“Environmental Future City” Initiative Promotion International Forum, February 16, 2013


Toyama City outlined

富山県（Toyama Prefecture）

The city of Toyama, seen from above the Toyama (railway) Station

日本

（Japan）

Total area 1,241.85 km２ (Japan’s second largest city in area with a prefectural government)

Geographic extent

Population

No. of households

Characteristic

421,953 (according to the National Census 2010)

60.6km east-west, 44.0km north-south

159,151 (according to the National Census 2010)

Covers a great variety of altitudes, from Toyama Bay, 0m above sea level, up to Mt. Suisho-dake, 2,986m above sea.

富山市（Toyama City）

▲Suisho-dake

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Toyama Bay

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[Source] Statistics Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs, “Japanese Statistics 2011” and Future population predictions by Toyama City

Current situation of Toyama City – Transition in its aged population ratio --

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■ Aged populations, and transitions in the ratios of aged citizens (Whole of Japan and Toyama City)



< Schematic drawing >Toyama City’s vision – structured like “skewered kebabs”

Skewers: Public transportations of competent quality

Pieces of kebab food: “Walking-distance areas” connected to each other with “skewers”

Building up a “compact city,” in which the core areas are formed along public transportations. To achieve this, revitalize railroads and other public transportations and concentrate urban functions along them, such as residence, commerce, operations, cultures, etc.

Toyama City’s future vision – Basic directions in building up a “compact city” --

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< Three pillars to achieve this vision >

(1) Revitalize public transportations.

(2) Invite more citizens to settle down in the areas along the public transportations.

(3) Revitalize the downtown.

(All of) railroad, tram, and public bus services

Railroads

Bus services

Downtown

Local community’s base of living

Legend


▼ Toyama Light Rail (LRT) (Opened in April 2006)▼ Loop Line of the City’s tram (opened in December 2009)

▲ Illustration of a tram station under the elevated railroads at Toyama (railroad) Station.

Build up a LRT network to create a city where citizens can “do their errands on foot,” leaving behind their over-dependence on “their own cars.”

▲ Tram


Revitalize public transportations -- Building up a LRT network --

Toyama Light Rail

Tram of Toyama Chihou Railroad

To form a loop

North-south connections

Extend service on Kamidaki Line

Legend

Total

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Revitalize public transportations – Reforming Toyamako Line into a tram line --

Feeder bus

Feeder bus

Toyama has revived a local conventional railroad, which was losing its users, by turning it into the nation’s first commercial LRT line. The managerial philosophy employed in this was “public-built, private-managed.”

Revived as Japan’s first commercial LRT service

< The LRT line in summary > ○ Opened on: April 29, 2006○ Total length: 7.6km (6.5km of traditional rails,

1.1km of light rails)○ No. of train stops: 13○ Nos. of cars and trains: 7 trains, with each consisting of 2

cars○ Time from one end to the other: Some 25 minutes (Toyama Station

North – Iwasehama)

▲ Toyama Light Rail (“Portram”)▲ Former Toyamako Line of JR


Revitalize public transportations – Reforming Toyamako Line into a tram line --

■ Improving the line’s train service

■ Installing attendants (August 2010 and onwards)

■ Low-floored cars and other barrier-free efforts at train stops

■ Employing IC card ride tickets

Former Toyamako Line of JR Toyama Light Rail

Frequency

First and last trains

No. of stations

Cars

Every 30 to 60 minutes

Sometime after 5am and after 9pm

9 (excluding Toyama Station)

Train cars

Every 15 minutes (10 minutes, during the rush hours)

Sometime after 5am and 11pm

13 train stops

Low-floored cars only

The fare is ¥200, no matter where you get on and off.


Revitalize public transportations – Effects of the Toyamako Line rebuilt into a tram line --

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■ The daily number of passengers rose up by almost 2.1 times on a weekday and by almost 3.6 times on a weekend or holiday from before the rebuilding into a tram line.

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Toyama Light Rail JR Toyamako Line

Numbers of passengers as of the end of March 2012, and their ratios to those before the LRT opening

- Weekday: 4,815 (almost 2.1 times) - Weekend/holiday: 3,717 (almost 3.6 times)

■ More aged passengers using the LRT service during the day (Changes in their lifestyles)

Transitions in the numbers of passengers in different hours, in a weekday

Toyama Light Rail (passengers)

10’s 20’s 30’s 40’s 50’s 60’s 70’s

Transitions in the number of passengers of different age groups, in a weekday

(passengers) Toyama Light Rail

Average daily number of passengers (people/day)

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Inviting people to live in the downtown – Building up a downtown nice with aged residents as well --


Legend

Aged people’s facilities in the downtown

Private-run condominiumsHouses sub-leased by the City

Easy-to-afford elder care facility (Built up in 2004)

Name: Care House MegumiUse: Easy-to-afford elder care facility (“care house”) No. of rooms: 69

Quality housing for rent to aged residents (Built up in 2006)

Name: Green court NonohanaUse: Collective housing, daycare facility No. of rooms: 35

Private-run condominium (Built up in 2010)Name: Premist SogawaUse: Collective housingNo. of households: 52

Housing for rent sub-leased by the City (Built up in 2009)

Name: East Town CourtUse: Collective housingNo. of households: 24

Quality housing for rent to aged residents (Built up in 2005)

Name: Silver House HohoemiUse: Collective housing, daycare facility

No. of households: 32


Name: Ritto Corporus 32Use: Collective housingNo. of households: 32


Name: Corpo KuboshinmachiUse: Collective housingNo. of households: 24

Private-run condominium (Built up in 2007)Name: City House Toyama Nishi Machi Use: Collective housing, for 101 households

Nursing care prevention base (Built up in July 2011)

Name: Toyama City Kadokawa NursingCare Prevention CenterUse: Physical exercise, muscle rehab, etc.


Inviting people to live in the downtown – Inviting in Daycare service facilities Toyama-style --


<<Toyama-style daycare’s example: “Arigato Home” Nishi-Denjigata (To open in April 2013)>>

▲ A scene illustrating daycare service Toyama-style

Facilities that provide nursing care, training, recreational activities, and protection/places to stay, such as daycare, short stays, etc., both night and day, to all the aged/challenged adults and children.

Daycare service facilities Toyama-style:

The city government grants additional subsidies to those private daycare service providers that set up a “daycare service facility Toyama-style” within the downtown (those districts specified for downtown revitalization). This “Toyama-style” should provide welfare service equally to aged or challenged adults and children, in home-like facilities that let users feel “at home.”


Around those nursing prevention facilities located in the downtown, we are building up a network of pedestrian ways, where aged or challenged citizens can walk around with safety and ease and comfort, to let them go out and have fellowship with others more often.


Giving aged citizens more opportunities to go out– Building up local communities that are healthy and easy to have fellowships --

<<Autumnal walk in the downtown, with female university students – (November 24, 2012)>>

Says a participant:“It’s easier to walk long this way, than with a stick. The aid has a basket on it, and I can buy many things and carry them in it, quite easily.”

▲ Watching works at “Galerie Millet,” a museum in the downtown

－ An event featuring walking-aid carts available to the general public －


Giving aged citizens more opportunities to go out -- “Outing Pass” project --

In collaboration with transportation carriers, the City government provides its citizens 65 years in age or older with a special discount public transportation fare – 100 yen a ride from inside the downtown, no matter where inside the City one gets off. (Called “Odekake Teikiken” (Outing Pass))

Some 30% of the City’s residents aged 65 years or older possess this Pass. On the average, 2,370 of them use the Pass each day.

< To apply for the “Outing Pass” >A citizen 65 years in age or older is entitled to the Pass for payment of 1,000 yen.

<Use of the Outing Pass>

(1) Hours the Pass is available: 9am to 5pm(2) Available in the following routes:

Toyama’s downtown, etc.



Inside Toyama City

Toyama City Hospital Inside Toyama City

<Route map>

Downtown area

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July 2012 through March 2013

Trial run period

Toyama City Family Park, Toyama Science Museum, Toyama Astronomical Observatory, Toyama Municipal Folkcraft Village, and others 12 facilities in all

Cooperating facilities

Applicable to

(A) grandparent(s) and his/her/their (great-) grandchildren entering together (no restriction on their ages or places of residence)

Giving aged citizens more opportunities to go out – Project to help them go out with their grandchildren --

The cooperating facilities give free admission to a grandparent entering them with his/her grandchild(ren). This is intended to stimulate aged citizens to go out more often and help them enhance their family tie across generational borders.

(The Observatory and some others begin to offer free admission beginning in January 2013.)


Within the radius of 500m from a railroad/LRT station or 300m from a bus stop of a route with frequent bus service

<Areas covered> Recommended residential areas along public transportations


<< “New community fellowship gardens” >>

○ Project launched: June 10, 2012○ Area covered: Some 350m2

○ Owners of each garden: the relevant local residents

Local residents’ associations build up a community garden (farm) in vacant land within their respective communities. In such gardens, local residents grow flowers, vegetables, etc. and have fellowship with each other.

People of all the generations, including aged citizens, are asked to be engaged in local community activities together, so that they can nurture social fellowships, which are part of social capital, and let aged citizens have something to live for.

[Before farm building]

[After]

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Giving aged citizens more opportunities to go out– Spaces of fellowships created by local communities’ initiatives --


Creating a city open to the future, with innovations in ecology, society, and economy

Reduction in CO2 emission

Reviving the downtown Cyclical society

Building up social capital

Local medical services

Safe and easyHealthNursing

Cutting down administrative costs

Letting local industries thrive

Expanding tax income

Creating new industriesReviving farming/mountainous communities

Creating jobs


Improve the quality of life and environment together, to let the citizens enjoy “a life with high satisfaction,” in a sustainable society.

Creating City Management Toyama Style, with “Compact City Strategy”

Creating ecological value

Creating social valueCreating economic value

Etc. Etc.

Etc.



-- Building up a city of sustainable added value creation, full of social capital --

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