Japan Links
Cycling
Tokyo Great Cycling Tour: Offers Amazing 1 day tours of Tokyo.
Charles & Sho Scott’s UNite to Combat Climate Change – Ride Japan: Father and son team team riding across Japan this summer starting June 25th. The Scott’s will be covering 4,700km over 2 months, so please check out they’re blog and please support them on their trip!
Environment
Stop Rokkasho: BEE 2007’s beneficiary. At that time Stop Rokkasho was protesting the opening on the Nuclear Reprocessing Plant in Rokkasho.
Eco-Products / Eco-Consumer Info
Free-Form Style: All-natural soap company based in Osaka (日本語）
MY HASHI: NPO that works to promote my hashi and other non-profits who support the environment. (Japanese site)
Deep Kyoto: Michael Lambe’s English speaker’s guide to Kyoto, including natural foods and vegetarian places around Japan’s former capital.
Michi-no-eki: Stations across the country where you can find local veggies, local specialties, and everything else Japan’s various prefectures & towns have to offer.
Food Issues/Vegetarian/Vegan
Vegan Japan, where they have also published a Japan Vegan Restaurant Pocketguide
ひな野(Hinano) Farm: Organic farm based in Gunma with restaurants throughout the country. (Japanese site)
Moku Moku Farm: Organic farm based in Mie Prefecture with restaurants in Nagoya, Mie, & Shiga. (Japanese site)
Moku: No relation to Moku-Moku, this is a natural foods and fair trade shop in Hikone, Shiga. Besdies having delicious fair trae coffee and vegan cookies, Moku’s enchanting setting inside of GokokuJinja (just below Hikone Castle), makes you wonder if you are in Japan or a tropical island paradise. BEE 2008 held a dinner event here, and we had a great time with Nakamura-san!
