Case of IKEA Port North

IKEA Kohoku / Climate Change Policy Headquarters Coordinating Section, Culture and Tourism Bureau Tourism Promotion Section / Implementation Date: April, 2016

Sankeien Garden is a Japanese garden with a large number of historically valuable buildings, including important cultural properties and Tangible Cultural Property designated by Yokohama City. IKEA Kohoku has proposed offering 127 LED bulbs to Sankeien. LED bulbs have the effect of saving energy to reduce costs and reducing the environmental burden, such as reducing CO2 emissions. In addition, since the light of LED bulbs does not contain ultraviolet rays, it has the effect of not damaging cultural properties, and it was an advantage in both economic and cultural property protection. On the occasion of the Nordic Art Exhibition held at the park, we set up rest areas using Scandinavian furniture in buildings in gassho-style and other places to create a space where visitors can enjoy cultural arts.

In Yokohama City, we are implementing policies aimed at curbing global warming and realizing a sustainable society. In 2015, we concluded a partnership agreement with IKEA Kohoku for a society in harmony with the environment. We are promoting energy-saving measures. As part of this initiative, the Yokohama Akari Project is engaged in activities to promote the spread of LED bulbs with high energy efficiency as an initiative to reduce CO2 emitted from households. Co-creation with Sankeien has been a good example of promoting the spread of LED bulbs, an energy-saving activity familiar to visitors.

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Photo by TANAKA Juuyoh (outside site)