Mokumoku-kai
A co-working study session where each person focuses on their own work while meeting other technical practitioners.
MIYAKO DE IT / KYOTO
About Miyako de IT
Miyako de IT is a Kyoto-based community for IT engineers that holds study groups, co-working study sessions, and networking events. Since February 2019, it has convened people around web applications, AI, Web3, blockchain, and app development in temples, machiya townhouses, universities, and other local venues. Beginners, solo participants, students, and working professionals can join.
615+
connpass members
165+
events held
7 years
operating continuously
14
collaborating organizations
A continuing place to learn and connect
Miyako de IT began in 2019 as a community where engineers, developers, students, researchers, and people from companies could meet repeatedly in Kyoto.
Its purpose is not only to create more learning opportunities. Co-working sessions, technical study groups, networking events, and collaborative programs connect people with companies, universities, public organizations, and local practitioners.
Why Kyoto matters
Kyoto brings together universities, research institutions, historic local resources, distinct cultural traditions, global technology companies, manufacturers, web businesses, and startups in a compact city.
Miyako de IT uses that local character to create recurring contact among technical practitioners, companies, universities, public-sector teams, and communities rather than treating Kyoto as an interchangeable event location.
Who the community is open to
The community welcomes engineers, designers, students, founders, researchers, organizational staff, and anyone interested in technology and making things. Participation is not restricted by employer, affiliation, or years of experience.
People looking for a broader view of work, pay, career change, and independent practice in Kyoto can continue with the Kyoto IT Engineer Guide.
How the community gathers
Technical study group
A place to deepen knowledge around technologies, cases, and practical experience.
Networking event
A relaxed setting for meeting across disciplines and roles.
Collaborative program
A themed initiative designed with companies, universities, venues, or local organizations.
Hackathon
A short, focused period for addressing a problem and building a prototype.
Book reflection session
A discussion that turns lessons from technical or business books into shared practical insight.
How Miyako de IT is operated
Miyako de IT is operated by Netsujo Inc. Netsujo connects technology with business, organizations, and communities so that ideas can move toward implementation.
The community is the public, local expression of that practice: an open connection layer where Kyoto's technical practitioners can work, learn, and build relationships.
Miyako de IT in numbers
The community has continued monthly co-working, study, and networking activity for 7 years since February 2019, with 165+ events, 615+ connpass members, and 14 recorded collaborating organizations.
These numbers indicate scale, not the community's full value. What matters most is the continuing connection between people, projects, organizations, and places after the event itself.
The TEMPLE model — six dimensions of community operation
Miyako de IT organized lessons from 7 years and 165+ events into a reproducible framework for local technical communities. The name reflects the practice of connecting IT learning with locally meaningful places, including temples.
T — Theme
Define the technical domains, local questions, and intended participants clearly enough that newcomers understand the purpose.
E — Environment
Design where and how people meet. Temples, machiya, universities, and historic buildings change both the experience and the people who attend.
M — Members
Design how participants enter, feel safe contributing, return, and deepen relationships across roles.
P — Persistence
Continue through systems and distributed roles rather than relying on one organizer's effort.
L — Local
Maintain connections with public organizations, universities, companies, venues, and other communities as long-term relationships.
E — Evolution
Update themes, formats, venues, and operating roles as participant interests and local conditions change.
What 7 years and 165+ events taught us
Place can matter more than the technical topic
The same co-working format produces a different motivation, stay, and return pattern in a temple hall than in an ordinary rental room. Venue is part of the participant experience.
Continuing becomes the strongest differentiator
A modest recurring session can build more local trust, participant relationships, and partnership inquiries than a single high-profile event.
Not every first-time visitor will return
Some first-time participants will not attend the next session. The goal is a worthwhile first experience, not forced retention.
Design collaboration over years, not one event
Recurring venue relationships with Butsugenji since April 2024 and Taisho University Kyoto Academia create more learning and value than one-off sponsorship.
Do not make the lead organizer the bottleneck
Distributing planning, communication, and on-the-day roles allows the organizer to focus on connection and direction, making long-term operation possible.
Principal venues and why they matter
Temple halls, machiya townhouses, a soba restaurant, a prefectural assembly chamber, and university facilities are not decorative backdrops. Venue choice is part of the community's experience design.
Butsugenji, Rokkaku Aburanokoji
A fourteenth-generation Jodo Shinshu Hongwanji-ha temple and a recurring venue since April 2024. Its main hall supports quiet focus and has hosted programs with Digital Nomad Kyoto.
Kokando, Karasuma Oike
A calligraphy gallery and café in a renovated machiya where Edo-period tableware, specialty coffee, records, and technical work share one space.
Daikoji, Fushimi Momoyama
A temple five minutes from Keihan Fushimi-Momoyama Station that became a venue partner in May 2026 and extended activity into Fushimi.
Soba Teuchi Takahashi, Gojo Kawaramachi
A soba restaurant in a former teahouse where technology and food culture meet through co-working and networking events.
Former Kyoto Prefectural Assembly Hall
A historic civic building used as a symbolic example of opening a public-sector place to an IT community.
Three operating principles
Turn learning into implementation and co-creation
Technical learning becomes more useful when themes, follow-up, and introductions create paths into participants' work, company DX, public policy, and university research.
Remain an open place
Welcoming newcomers, students, beginners, experienced engineers, and organizational leaders requires deliberate choices in event copy, facilitation, greetings, and seating—not only a slogan.
Use Kyoto's context
Venue, partner, and theme decisions ask how temples, machiya, universities, traditional industry, public institutions, and Kyoto's technical ecosystem can shape the work.
Explore the work through four series
Four editorial series organize lessons from 7 years and 165+ events so each theme can be read independently.
TEMPLE Model Research
Independent examinations of the six operating dimensions.
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Kyoto's Technology Scene
Engineers, companies, universities, and researchers working in Kyoto.
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Venue Stories
The histories and meanings of temples, machiya, university campuses, and the former prefectural assembly hall.
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Community Case Research
Patterns abstracted from successes and failures.
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WHITEPAPER 2026
Open data from Kyoto's IT community, 2019–2026
The 2026 whitepaper publishes 162 event records and registration statistics with calculation methods, limitations, and downloadable CSV and JSON files.
The dataset is fixed as of 2026-07-17T00:16:18.272000+09:00. Registration records come from connpass and do not claim to be verified day-of attendance.
Initiatives and records that grew from the community
615-member technical network
A record of the relationships made possible by recurring activity.
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Establishing the temple IT-study format
How venue continuity became a recognizable Kyoto community practice.
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Kyoto Prefecture working-group participation
A community operator's contribution to regional IT-industry discussion.
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IT Engineer Meetup in Kyoto
A continuing series of cross-company technical networking events.
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Recurring Web3 and blockchain study groups
A continued line of practical technical learning.
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Temple × Technology
A local venue collaboration around technology and community.
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Brew & Build
A format connecting making, conversation, and a local venue.
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Five participant interviews and article records
First-party and attributed records show how participants describe the community and how individual events were documented.
Think IT community guide
An external-media contribution explaining the Kyoto technical-community context.
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Interview with ogurabread
A participant account of joining and continuing with the community.
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Interview with taipy
A participant account of technical work and community activity in Kyoto.
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Interview with yamasaw
A participant account of engineering conversations and community contact.
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Interview with Ash
A participant account published in the community's editorial archive.
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WordPress event archive
The first WordPress event record, including its historical connpass destination.
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Source-verified record
The live proof wall below renders only records with a checked source URL.
Source-verified record
Every item below is limited to a fact with a checked source URL.
Working group
Participation in the Chain Up KYOTO working group
Digital Policy Promotion Division, Kyoto Prefecture
Teaching and speaking2025-06
Instructor for an introductory blockchain study group
NEMTUS, Ryukoku University Horizon Programming Club, and partners
Award2024-11
Most Variable Community award at Tech Award in Hack Osaka 2024
Urban Innovation Institute and Osaka Business Development Agency
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TEMPLE framework resource
A free resource summarizing a community-operations framework derived from 7 years and 165 events.
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LM-3 FREE RESOURCE
TEMPLE Community Operations Framework
Theme · Environment · Members · Persistence · Local · Evolution
For: Business development, people, and internal-community teams
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