Yaruki Switch Group Holds Study Tour in Collaboration with "Jikyujisoku College" to Experience a New Lifestyle as a "Quarter Farmer" with Parents and Children. (VISON, Taki Town, Mie)
Yaruki Switch Group, in collaboration with "Jikyujisoku College," held an experiential educational study tour for parents and children at the commercial facility "VISON" in Taki Town, Mie Prefecture. This tour offers an experience of a new lifestyle as a "Quarter Farmer" and learning about the cycle of "food, agriculture, and forest."
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・Cultivating children's life skills on the stage of VISON, Mie.
・Two English teachers from Yaruki Switch Group accompanied the tour, providing opportunities to experience "living English."
・Yaruki Switch Group's experiential educational travel "Study Tour" for parents and children, targeting preschoolers to elementary and junior high school students, offers learning through "authentic experiences."
Yaruki Switch Group, a comprehensive education service company (Headquarters: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director and President: Naoshi Takahashi; hereinafter "Yaruki Switch Group"), held an educational travel "Study Tour" at the commercial facility "VISON" in Taki Town, Mie Prefecture, to deepen learning through "authentic experiences" outside the classroom.
Two days of learning about "food," "agriculture," and "forest" realized through co-creation with Jikyujisoku College.
This tour is a program to learn about the cycle of "food," "agriculture," and "forest" through the experience of a "Quarter Farmer," which brings agriculture closer to home, realized through co-creation with "Jikyujisoku College" (Taki Town, Taki-gun, Mie Prefecture; Representative: Masahiro Koshiba). By incorporating Yaruki Switch Group's unique method of "questioning and reflection," the program verbalizes discoveries in nature, improving children's initiative and communication skills. Many parents also expressed their strong sense of their children's definite growth beyond the classroom.
■ What is Jikyujisoku College?
Educational design unique to Yaruki Switch Group that connects experience to learning.
It is a co-creation partner for this study tour, operating from Taki Town, Mie Prefecture. As a "place to learn self-sufficiency," it is a place to learn themes related to daily life, such as agriculture, seeds, fermentation, forests, housing, and energy, through both lectures and practical training. It aims to convey the art of "self-sufficiency," a sustainable lifestyle living with nature, and promotes community building to learn wisdom, techniques, and information for living in harmony with the natural cycle.
Furthermore, Jikyujisoku College advocates a lifestyle called "Quarter Farmer" as a way to foster the ability to create a part of one's life with one's own hands, rather than depending on external sources for everything necessary. This concept means that even without being a full-time farmer, by dedicating 1 to 2 days a week, or 1/4 of one's working hours, to touching the soil, one aims to create a part of one's life by oneself, rather than aiming for complete self-sufficiency.
In this study tour, Yaruki Switch Group redesigned these insights from Jikyujisoku College into an educational program for parents and children to learn together.
■ Overview
A program to learn about the cycle of "food," "agriculture," and "forest" through the experience of a "Quarter Farmer," which brings agriculture closer to home.
・Dates: March 21 (Sat) - 22 (Sun), 2026
・Location: Commercial facility "VISON" in Taki Town, Mie Prefecture (672-1 VISON, Taki Town, Taki-gun, Mie Prefecture)
・Content: An experiential program for parents and children to learn about the connection between "food," "agriculture," "forest," and daily life, realized through co-creation with Jikyujisoku College.
Feature ① Two days of learning about "food," "agriculture," and "forest" realized through co-creation with Jikyujisoku College.
With the theme "How is our daily life supported by nature?", an experiential program for parents and children was conducted in collaboration with Jikyujisoku College.
In the program, participants first experienced the fields of "food" and "agriculture" through harvesting at an organic farm and interacting with animals. Afterwards, the stage moved to the forest of "Hayami Forestry (*)," which has one of Japan's longest histories. The experience of walking through the forest and making swags with materials collected by hand became an opportunity for children to feel the "forest," the source that supports food, firsthand. It was a two-day program to learn about the "cycle of life" that supports daily life by connecting the fields of "food," "agriculture," and "forest."
*Hayami Forestry: A forestry business operating in Kihoku Town, Mie Prefecture since 1790 in the Edo period. It has been engaged in environmentally friendly forest management for many years in a forest centered on cypress trees, and obtained FSC certification for the first time in Japan in 2000.
Feature ② Educational design unique to Yaruki Switch Group that connects experience to learning.
In this program, based on the concept of living in harmony with the natural cycle advocated by Jikyujisoku College, Yaruki Switch Group's unique questioning and reflection methods were combined.
This time, a unique workbook was used to introduce the process of "thinking, verbalizing, and reflecting." Importance was placed on giving children time to organize what they felt by touching soil and wood and to express their own opinions. Furthermore, English teachers accompanied the tour, providing a "living English experience" where everything they saw was expressed in English. Through these multifaceted approaches, children learned that "food," "agriculture," and "forest" are not independent but interconnected.
・Two English teachers from Yaruki Switch Group accompanied the tour, providing opportunities to experience "living English."
・Yaruki Switch Group's experiential educational travel "Study Tour" for parents and children, targeting preschoolers to elementary and junior high school students, offers learning through "authentic experiences."
Yaruki Switch Group, a comprehensive education service company (Headquarters: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director and President: Naoshi Takahashi; hereinafter "Yaruki Switch Group"), held an educational travel "Study Tour" at the commercial facility "VISON" in Taki Town, Mie Prefecture, to deepen learning through "authentic experiences" outside the classroom.
Two days of learning about "food," "agriculture," and "forest" realized through co-creation with Jikyujisoku College.
This tour is a program to learn about the cycle of "food," "agriculture," and "forest" through the experience of a "Quarter Farmer," which brings agriculture closer to home, realized through co-creation with "Jikyujisoku College" (Taki Town, Taki-gun, Mie Prefecture; Representative: Masahiro Koshiba). By incorporating Yaruki Switch Group's unique method of "questioning and reflection," the program verbalizes discoveries in nature, improving children's initiative and communication skills. Many parents also expressed their strong sense of their children's definite growth beyond the classroom.
■ What is Jikyujisoku College?
Educational design unique to Yaruki Switch Group that connects experience to learning.
It is a co-creation partner for this study tour, operating from Taki Town, Mie Prefecture. As a "place to learn self-sufficiency," it is a place to learn themes related to daily life, such as agriculture, seeds, fermentation, forests, housing, and energy, through both lectures and practical training. It aims to convey the art of "self-sufficiency," a sustainable lifestyle living with nature, and promotes community building to learn wisdom, techniques, and information for living in harmony with the natural cycle.
Furthermore, Jikyujisoku College advocates a lifestyle called "Quarter Farmer" as a way to foster the ability to create a part of one's life with one's own hands, rather than depending on external sources for everything necessary. This concept means that even without being a full-time farmer, by dedicating 1 to 2 days a week, or 1/4 of one's working hours, to touching the soil, one aims to create a part of one's life by oneself, rather than aiming for complete self-sufficiency.
In this study tour, Yaruki Switch Group redesigned these insights from Jikyujisoku College into an educational program for parents and children to learn together.
■ Overview
A program to learn about the cycle of "food," "agriculture," and "forest" through the experience of a "Quarter Farmer," which brings agriculture closer to home.
・Dates: March 21 (Sat) - 22 (Sun), 2026
・Location: Commercial facility "VISON" in Taki Town, Mie Prefecture (672-1 VISON, Taki Town, Taki-gun, Mie Prefecture)
・Content: An experiential program for parents and children to learn about the connection between "food," "agriculture," "forest," and daily life, realized through co-creation with Jikyujisoku College.
Feature ① Two days of learning about "food," "agriculture," and "forest" realized through co-creation with Jikyujisoku College.
With the theme "How is our daily life supported by nature?", an experiential program for parents and children was conducted in collaboration with Jikyujisoku College.
In the program, participants first experienced the fields of "food" and "agriculture" through harvesting at an organic farm and interacting with animals. Afterwards, the stage moved to the forest of "Hayami Forestry (*)," which has one of Japan's longest histories. The experience of walking through the forest and making swags with materials collected by hand became an opportunity for children to feel the "forest," the source that supports food, firsthand. It was a two-day program to learn about the "cycle of life" that supports daily life by connecting the fields of "food," "agriculture," and "forest."
*Hayami Forestry: A forestry business operating in Kihoku Town, Mie Prefecture since 1790 in the Edo period. It has been engaged in environmentally friendly forest management for many years in a forest centered on cypress trees, and obtained FSC certification for the first time in Japan in 2000.
Feature ② Educational design unique to Yaruki Switch Group that connects experience to learning.
In this program, based on the concept of living in harmony with the natural cycle advocated by Jikyujisoku College, Yaruki Switch Group's unique questioning and reflection methods were combined.
This time, a unique workbook was used to introduce the process of "thinking, verbalizing, and reflecting." Importance was placed on giving children time to organize what they felt by touching soil and wood and to express their own opinions. Furthermore, English teachers accompanied the tour, providing a "living English experience" where everything they saw was expressed in English. Through these multifaceted approaches, children learned that "food," "agriculture," and "forest" are not independent but interconnected.