Access: Get off JR Train at Orio Station of Kagoshima Line. Leave the station by the West Exit and take the bus for KSRP from the opposite side of the road, numbers 61 or 65. The nearest bus stop to CUK is ‘Hibikino Minami'.
The Kitakyushu International Conference Center,
Kokurakita, Kitakyushu, JAPAN
Over at Treehugger, we continue talking about Japan’s Eco Model Cities. This time, we take a closer look at Kitakyushu, the industrial city in south western Japan that used to be known as a very polluted place to live. That started to change in the late 1970s when a group of housewives formed an environmental group and lobbied the city to combat pollution from the factories. Amazing what a bunch of dedicated people can do sometimes. Some 30 years later, Kitakyushu is seen as a model city, having received the Global 500 Award from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in 1990. In 1992, it got the UN Local Government Honours during the Earth Summit. Kitakyushu is active abroad (pdf), and is seen as a human resource development base for sustainable development in Asia.
For example, there is the Kitakyushu Industrial Eco Complex to recycle resources and energies and generate new industries as citywide activities, through the use of local industrial infrastructures.
If you own a car in Japan, this is most likely where it will end up, after you sell it.
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