AUG 6, 2015

Japan Secret Urban Farming In The Heart Of Tokyo

-- Photoreport by the french photographer Hélène Veilleux --

Hidden in the, as busy as posh district, of ginza, the Pasona O2 project bring back greens in the tokyo's ocean of concrete building.

Secret Garden ?

Visitors may be surpised to discover that an unexpected urban farm occupie the ground and first floors of this office block designed by the Japanese architect Yoshimi Kono.
But Pasona O2 is not just an architect dream it also an effective urban farming project ( and 100% organic ) which grows more than 200 species of fruits, vegetables and have is own 1,000-square-foot indoor rice paddy.
A project fully supported by the huge multinational corporation Pasona Inc. (株式会社パソ) and it's staff who shared their open spaces, conferences room and others classical office facilities whith tomatoes and cuncumber crops.

Adress : Pasona 02 100-8228 Otemachi, Chiyoda, Japan

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