https://www.hubgujo.com/telework-in-gujo

NPO HUB GUJO

HUB GUJO is an NPO-run shared office and coworking space in rural Gujō, Japan, built in a renovated former spinning mill to let people live and work remotely in the countryside, part of a national "furusato (hometown) telework" effort to counter young people's migration to cities.

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Founded by returnee young residents (the NPO formed in 2015, space opened March 2017 with government subsidy support) it connects "city" with "rural talent, companies, and local resources," hosting corporate satellite offices and individual coworkers with high-quality web-conferencing infrastructure. Its underlying civic purpose is regional revitalization, keeping working-age youth in a depopulating town by making remote work locally viable, rather than being a purely commercial coworking venture.

Org. type: Non-profit / charity / foundation
Project type: Organization
Country: Japan (Nihon or Nippon) 🇯🇵
Language(s): Japanese
Categories: Digital transformation, Economic development, Hubs
Added: 2026-06-27
Last modified: 2026-10-05T15:33:32.000Z

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Formats: place-based
Number of integrations: 0
Activity status: Inactive
Issues addressed: urban planning, labor
Geographic focus: Japan (Nihon or Nippon) 🇯🇵
Geographic focus — country: Japan (Nihon or Nippon) 🇯🇵

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