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On September 29, 2026, Hajime Konagai will represent Miyako de IT at Progate BAR's Kansai tech community meetup at the Progate Kyoto Hackathon House. Four Kansai tech communities are collaborating on the LT and networking event.

A development flow that assigns distinct roles to ChatGPT, Claude Code, and Codex, rebuilt into something you can try on a personal project or at a mokumoku session. It walks through the task contract, implementation, deterministic checks, independent review, and the final human decision.

Generative AI has lowered the cost of obtaining technical information, so where does the value of an IT study group sit now? Drawing on Miyako de IT's own sessions in Kyoto on Claude Code, AI agents, AI video generation, and quantum computing, this article examines the shift from a place to be taught toward a place to bring back what people actually tried.

We asked Matsuura, an engineer who maintains and develops equipment control and Windows software in manufacturing, what first brought them to Miyako de IT, why they have kept coming for two to three years, what makes the community feel open to first-time participants, and what they would like to try next in terms of lightning talks and helping run events.

Search traffic to a community site does not come only from Google. When Miyako de IT measured GA4 on July 24, 2026, Bing organic search produced 68 sessions in the prior 90 days—about one tenth of Google for the same period. This report records that observation, AI referrals, and why we publish the numbers without claiming causation.

What should an IT-community site measure with GA4 to inform event operations? Miyako de IT publishes the implementation it uses: clicks to connpass, Discord-entry paths, article views, scroll depth, and completion—down to the component names. This is a practical example from a community with seven years and 159 events.

A first-party operating log from six months of publishing on miyakodeit.com. Search clicks rose from 17 in January 2026 to 183 in June, while impressions grew about 35× from the first measured month. The article also records measurement and causality limitations.

Five public Miyako de IT partnership cases, separated into verified facts, practical implications, and unmeasured outcomes, with a repeatable process and KPIs.

A catalog of 15 communities for IT engineers—nine nationwide and six regional. Compiled from 7 years and 159 events of community operations in Kyoto, it covers choosing by learning, networking, speaking, or region; four steps to a first visit; and common questions. This is not an exhaustive nationwide list. The order is not a ranking, and each community's activity was checked against primary sources such as official sites and connpass.

A hub for Kyoto mokumoku sessions, connecting participation guidance, the effects of repeated attendance, reports from temples and other venues, and practical answers based on 159 Miyako de IT events.

“Will I be out of place?” Almost everyone feels anxious before joining an IT community. Drawing on the experience of operating a Kyoto community with 637 members, this guide explains how students, beginners, and first-time participants can take a comfortable first step. You can find a place regardless of experience or title.

A complete guide for people who want to try a lightning talk at a study group. Learn how to choose a five-minute topic, structure slides, prepare for the day, and handle nerves, based on a Kyoto community's experience supporting many first-time speakers across 159 events.

A guide for organizers choosing among four repeatable study-group formats and turning one into a monthly series, based on 7 years and more than 159 events in Kyoto.

An objective comparison of three ways to learn programming in Kyoto: self-study, programming schools, and study groups. It explains who each route suits, likely costs, and how to combine them using services available to Kyoto residents.

An activity-verified map of IT communities in Kyoto, listing each group with its official URL, main themes, intended participants, event formats, verification date, the primary source we checked, and how to attend for the first time. The listing order does not indicate ranking. We opened each group's official page on August 2, 2026, and applied the listing criteria and re-checked the main pages on August 5, 2026; where recent activity could not be confirmed we state that fact directly.

An evergreen guide for professionals, IT engineers, and students looking for study groups in Kyoto. It covers three search routes—connpass and TechPlay, social media, and venue announcements—the differences among mokumoku, lightning-talk, and hands-on formats, and how to narrow down by objective. Events you can join now are on the event listing, and group-by-group comparison is handled by the Kyoto community list.

More companies are sponsoring IT communities for recruiting branding and technical communications. Based on operating a Kyoto community of 637 members for 7 years and 159 events, this guide covers benefits, partnership options, process, and failure patterns.

Tomohiro Iida contributed the fourth article in ThinkIT's Events and Seminars 2026 series, explaining retention, trust through repetition, and sustainable formats for regional IT communities.

“I want the Miyako de IT community to be like Pokémon.” This thought experiment asks what makes people want to participate repeatedly by reimagining catching, trading, and battling as community design.

How to divide work between generative AI, people, and a CMS so that a community site keeps getting updated. Using the operation of the Miyako de IT site as an example, it sets out what we leave to AI, the items a person always checks, and the information kept in one place on the CMS side.

Loneliness in remote work is not a matter of personality; it can come from a way of working in which points of contact do not occur automatically. This article separates loneliness into five states and sets out countermeasures—scheduling time out of the house, settings where you choose how much you talk, somewhere to share technical work, a role outside your job, and separating out what needs specialist support—from the perspective of running a community in Kyoto for 7 years across 159 events.

In the Kyoto IT Community White Paper, fixed as of July 17, 2026, 109 of 459 unique registrants had registered for three or more events. This article sets out the scale of repeat registration and what the figure does and does not show.

Six elements for starting and sustaining an IT-engineer community outside Tokyo: theme, venue, attendance, collaborators, and local partnerships.

What is an IT community? Drawing on 7 years, 159 events, and 637 members of operating experience in Kyoto, this 2026 guide explains the types of IT engineer communities, how to choose one, practical steps to a first visit, the value of regional communities, Kyoto's local context, and collaboration with companies and local governments.

Many study groups and mokumoku sessions disappear within a year. Miyako de IT distills seven recurring failures from 159 events over seven years.

External communities fill gaps that internal training cannot. Drawing on experience with 637 members, this guide explains the value of joining study groups and mokumoku sessions from the first year of an engineering career.

A manual for anyone attending an IT study group or co-working session for the first time. It covers choosing an event, registering, what to bring, what to say at reception, self-introductions, how to ask a question, leaving early, photographs and social media, dealing with solicitation, and reviewing the event afterwards, in that order. Compiled by the Miyako de IT editorial team, which has run 159 events over 7 years in Kyoto.

Even where remote work is the default, meeting in person keeps a separate role. Not because it is better than online, but because unplanned conversation, another person's level of interest, the memory of a place, and repeated contact arise there. Five reasons drawn from 159 events over 7 years, together with what offline cannot solve.

A practical comparison of three event platforms based on 159 event announcements, covering reach, audiences, interface, pricing, payments, and how both organizers and participants can choose.

A practical guide from creating a connpass group to operating monthly, based on experience with 637 members and 159 events. It covers first-event recruitment, venue selection, and common mistakes when starting locally with three people.

Why attending study groups alone does not grow a network, and seven actions observed while operating a 637-member community.

A guide to thinking through the worries of attending a meetup alone: experience level, conversation, and the rules of the setting. It leaves the decision to attend with you and points to separate guides for registration and what to bring.

Three perspectives for deciding whether to add in-person contact to a remote-working routine: unplanned conversation, reactions you can observe in a shared setting, and a boundary between work and home created by going out. General community value and responses to loneliness are covered separately.

Mokumoku sessions can improve focus, professional relationships, and learning rhythm at the same time. Drawing on 159 events and 637 members, this guide explains those mechanisms, why the format can feel pointless, and how to participate effectively.

A mokumoku-kai is an event where participants gather and work on tasks of their own choosing. This first-time guide explains the term and pronunciation, connpass registration, what to bring and wear, the day's flow, and attending alone.

For people looking for IT engineer study groups and communities in Kansai—Kyoto, Osaka, and Kobe—this guide sets out how to search in each city and what travel between them involves. Lists of individual groups are left to the Kyoto and nationwide articles; this one is limited to what you need in order to decide across several cities. It was compiled from 7 years and 159 events of operating a community in Kyoto.

How companies and researchers in Kyoto can look for somewhere to take a technical question. It covers separating the work by what you need judged instead of settling on a contract type first, the characteristics of nine kinds of destinations, and what a community can and cannot do. It also states the relationship between Miyako de IT and the company that operates it.

A guide to working, changing jobs, and learning as an IT engineer in Kyoto. Drawing on more than 7 years of operating an IT engineer community in Kyoto, this page organizes the whole local IT landscape: major company categories, salary levels, the job market, career paths, communities, work environments, and places to live.

How to go about changing engineering jobs in Kyoto, organized around the Kyoto coverage of the major recruitment services, five application routes, routes for people without experience, and U/I-turn support, using official information from public bodies and from each company. We do not rank the services; we state the intended users, the areas covered, the main roles, the verification date, the cost, and the official URL. Salaries by role have been moved to a separate salary guide. Written from the perspective of the Kyoto IT engineer community Miyako de IT (7 years, 159 events, 637 members).

An article for reading the salaries of IT engineers working in Kyoto without asserting a single average figure. It sets out the difference between public statistics and job-listing statistics, the nine items that must accompany any figure, and the procedure for checking figures against your own circumstances. The August 2026 update removed the salary ranges by years of experience and by role for which no source could be shown, along with the comparison table that stated a fixed figure for the gap with Tokyo. Compiled by the editorial team of the Kyoto IT engineer community Miyako de IT (7 years, 159 events).

We interviewed Ash about what prompted their participation and their impressions of Miyako de IT events.

Tokyo-level income, Kyoto's lower costs, and a rich cultural setting. This article explains why freelance IT engineers choose Kyoto in the remote-work era and how they use the community.

A place where digital nomads visiting Kyoto meet Japanese IT engineers. This article describes our joint events with Digital Nomad Kyoto and the topics that can come up at an international gathering.

A guide to Kyoto work spots for remote and focused work, centered on KOIN in the Kyoto Economic Center, UNKNOWN KYOTO, .andwork kyoto, and SHARE LOUNGE Kyoto Tsutaya Books. It also covers distinctively Kyoto venues such as Butsugenji temple and the Kokando townhouse. Opening hours, fees, and facilities change, so it sets out the items worth checking before you visit.

A list of 20 IT companies and major manufacturers with a headquarters or a major base in Kyoto, arranged by industry category with business fields, approximate employee scale, and official URLs. It covers manufacturers such as Nintendo, Kyocera, Murata Manufacturing, Nidec, OMRON, and ROHM; web companies such as Hatena and Money Forward; and AI and SaaS startups such as HACARUS and Baseconnect. Listings are limited to headquarters, major offices, and research and development bases; companies with only a registered address, and former offices, are excluded. Compiled from the perspective of the Kyoto IT engineer community Miyako de IT (7 years, 159 events, 637 members).

An operator's perspective on Kyoto's technology industry and culture, and on why an IT engineering community matters outside Tokyo. This article focuses on the value of engineers gathering in Kyoto rather than comparing companies or salaries.

An interview with ogurabread about what led them to join a Miyako de IT event and their impressions afterward. The full interview is published externally on Zenn.

An interview with taipy about what led them to join Miyako de IT and their impressions of the event. The full interview is published externally on Zenn.

An interview with yamasaw about discovering Miyako de IT, participating in its events, and the value of returning to a local engineering community.

Seven practical routes for researchers seeking IT engineers before an industry collaboration or proof of concept, based on seven years and 159 Miyako de IT events.

Academia–industry work often stalls before formal systems begin. Miyako de IT explains how researchers and IT engineers can meet naturally, test an early PoC, and turn research into an implementable conversation.

A hub for Miyako de IT's temple-based study sessions: why temples work as technology venues, reports from Butsugenji and Daikoji, and how a venue becomes part of a community's identity.

A practical guide to partnership models, implementation steps, and common failure patterns, based on Miyako de IT's work with Kyoto Prefecture's IT Industry Promotion Working Group, Taisho University Kyoto Academia, and Kyoto Chiesangyo Sozonomori.

Fushimi Ward is emerging as a new Kyoto IT hub. Miyako de IT reports on mokumoku sessions at Daikoji, development events at the Kanata Konata townhouse coworking space, and community activity around Fushimi-Momoyama Station.

Local-government collaboration is broader than contract development. Drawing on a Kyoto IT-engineer community's practice, this article explains how to connect technology to administrative and regional contexts, start small, and produce results.

Five practical strategies for engineers choosing among Tokyo-based remote work, local employment, freelancing, and a two-base career while living outside the capital.

Writing code in a temple has continued for years at Butsugenji in Kyoto. This first-party account explains how the events began, what they feel like, and why a temple can be effective for focused technical work.

Opening laptops and writing code on tatami in Butsugenji's main hall: a first-party report on temple-based mokumoku sessions and why an unusual setting can help IT engineers focus.

What a community can publish about “regional Web3” is not a general argument but a record of where local people, places, and organizations actually connected with engineers. This article sets out the Web3-related activity Miyako de IT holds as a primary record, along with the items to check when deciding whether to adopt the technology in a regional project.

A working model that organizes 7 years of running Miyako de IT in Kyoto into six perspectives: Theme, Environment, Members, Persistence, Local, and Evolution. It is not a formula that produces success when applied. It is a set of questions drawn from reviewing which programmes continued and which stopped, together with the indicators we check for each perspective and the situations where the model does not fit.

A regional IT community's continuity depends on theme design. Drawing on seven years, 159 Kyoto events, and 637 members, this guide explains how to implement the Theme dimension of the TEMPLE model.

Seven years of Miyako de IT operations show how repeated use of temples, townhouses, coworking spaces, and universities can turn a venue into a community asset.

A record of 7 years running a regional IT community in Kyoto, from 2019 to 2026. It sets out, year by year, what worked and what did not through launch, moving online, differentiating by place, and becoming established. The definition of the TEMPLE model is kept in its own article.

On September 5, 2026, Miyako de IT and Digital Nomad Kyoto held Mokumoku Meetup #62 at Daikoji in Fushimi Ward, Kyoto. About 10 people joined, including IT engineers, people preparing to start AI development, and people experimenting with IoT.

On August 28, 2026, Miyako de IT held Tonari no AI-san at Taisho University Kyoto Academia. Participants shared how they relate to the AI they use every day, then let those AIs react to the descriptions.

Looking for an IT engineer social or co-working session in Kyoto? This photo report compares three August 2026 events, their venues, formats, and the type of participation each format supports.

On July 27, 2026, the third session in Miyako de IT's quantum-computing series compared four hardware approaches and sent Qiskit circuits to an IBM Quantum system.

On July 25, 2026, Miyako de IT and Digital Nomad Kyoto held Mokumoku Meetup #59 at Butsugenji. About 10 people, from a middle school student to participants in their 50s, worked and talked together in the temple hall.

Miyako de IT joined Impact Kyoto Hackathon 2026 as a sponsor and presented its Sponsor Award to team YARIGAI. In support of the project’s focus on preserving purpose and human value in the generative-AI era, the team received invitations to attend Miyako de IT events free of charge for one year.

A guide to learning AI video generation from Text-to-Video and Image-to-Video fundamentals through practical corporate PR use. It links introductory prompt work with reports from Miyako de IT study sessions in Kyoto.

A guide to Miyako de IT's three-session quantum-computing series: foundations, quantum circuits and Shor's algorithm, implementation methods, IBM hardware, noise, and Grover's algorithm.

Miyako de IT held a practical course on using AI short videos for corporate PR. About 20 participants learned subject selection, prompt design, iterative improvement, editing, and the production process for a company-introduction video.

Miyako de IT's second quantum-computing session covered qubits, quantum circuits, interference, and Shor's factoring algorithm, with short yoga breaks between technical sections.

Six participants reviewed vectors, complex numbers, matrices, inner products, qubits, the Bloch sphere, and common quantum gates in an online preparation session.

On May 30, 2026, Miyako de IT held its AI Agent Practice Lightning Talks at the Former Kyoto Prefectural Assembly Hall. Around 30 participants, including Kyoto Prefectural Government staff, shared practical examples using Claude Code, OpenClaw, Codex, Cursor, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, local LLMs, multi-agent workflows, and AI design tools.

On May 29, 2026, Miyako de IT held a two-part event at Fushigi na Yado in Kyoto: a seven-person afternoon mokumoku session in the lobby and a 17-person rooftop BBQ for engineers, designers, communications professionals, and creators.

On May 28, 2026, Kyoto-based IT engineer community Miyako de IT held the online event “Introduction to Creating Video with AI.” With Kyoto freelance web designer maki as instructor, 18 participants learned AI-video basics, differences among major tools, prompt design, and commercial-use considerations.

On May 25, 2026, Miyako de IT held the first of a three-part quantum-computing series at Kokando. Physicist Tetsuya Onogi introduced why quantum computing matters, with yoga breaks led by Yuka Onogi.

On May 23, 2026, Miyako de IT and Digital Nomad Kyoto held Mokumoku Session #57 at Daikoji in Fushimi Ward. Engineers, creators, and digital nomads combined focused work and informal exchange inside a temple founded in 1260.

On May 18, 2026, Miyako de IT hosted a participant report on Protocol Camp, a blockchain bootcamp in Korea supported by Hashed. A member of the winning hackathon team shared a first-hand example of connecting Kyoto with the international Web3 ecosystem.

On May 6, 2026, Miyako de IT held a three-person pilot mokumoku session at CODE BASE OKINAWA in Ginowan. This first-party report examines a small experiment connecting regional technology communities in Kyoto and Okinawa.

On April 20, 2026, Miyako de IT held a Claude Code / OpenClaw hands-on session at Taisho University Kyoto Academia. Twelve people set up and tried both tools, comparing terminal-centered Claude Code with open-source OpenClaw, discussing use cases, setup obstacles, and how to introduce them into work.

A first-party report from Miyako Mokumoku Session #56 at Butsugenji on April 18, 2026. Alongside focused work and conversation, the program included yoga, an introduction to quantum mechanics, and craft beer provided by Tenshoku Draft.

Using the planning and design of UNKNOWN QUEST as a practical example, this guide organizes the operational knowledge a community needs to launch a hackathon itself, from theme and participant design to support, rights, and venue selection.

A report on a large networking event jointly organized with Kyoto Chiesangyo Sozonomori that drew more than 50 people, featuring five lightning talks, themed free networking, and the expanding network of IT engineers in Kansai.

A team formed by people who met through Miyako de IT in 2019 won the Grand Prize at HACK+2023, organized by NEMTUS. This article sets out what was built into the blood-donation support DApp on the Symbol blockchain, and the role Miyako de IT played after the award, within what primary records confirm.