Butsugenji Temple × Miyako de IT
Turning a temple into a place for technical focus and exchange through a distinctly Kyoto venue partnership
Overview
- Category
- Venue collaboration
- Period
- Continuous use since April 2024
- Venue
- Butsugenji Temple (Rokkaku Aburanokoji / Jodo Shinshu Hongwanji-ha)
- Audience
- Kyoto IT engineers, overseas digital nomads, and local people interested in technology
- Format
- Co-working study sessions, year-end parties, and international exchange events
Challenge before the collaboration
Rental spaces and meeting rooms in central Kyoto are functional but can feel interchangeable. Temples, meanwhile, have a long history as places for gathering and conversation, yet had become distant from today’s IT professionals.
What primary records confirm
The main hall of Butsugenji Temple has been used continuously since April 2024 as a venue for Miyako de IT co-working sessions, year-end parties, and international exchange events. Miyako de IT handles event planning, promotion, and on-site operations, and coordinates between the temple and participants.
Related first-party record
This page is the canonical account of the venue relationship since April 2024. Individual sessions remain separate first-party event records.
Read the July 25, 2026 Mokumoku Meetup #59 recordWhat we did
- 1Continuously used the main hall as a principal venue for co-working sessions and year-end parties since April 2024
- 2Established working on laptops on tatami as a distinctly Kyoto event experience
- 3Also used the temple for events co-hosted with Digital Nomad Kyoto
- 4Repeatedly communicated the temple-and-IT combination through participant photos and reports
Miyako de IT’s role
Outcomes
Quantitative outcomes
Qualitative outcomes
- The idea of an IT study session in a temple became a defining element of the Miyako de IT brand
- The temple developed a new connection with IT professionals
- Overseas participants responded especially positively to a setting that conveys a strong sense of Kyoto
- Participants have told the organizers they would like to come again. We have not taken a survey, so we do not treat this as a return rate or a satisfaction score
What comes next
- Continue co-working sessions, year-end parties, and international exchange events
- Extend the venue-collaboration model to other temples, including Daikoji Temple
Not yet confirmed
- Acceptance conditions, facilities, and the breakdown of who bears which costs have not been confirmed with the venue
- We do not present venue use as a digital-transformation outcome for a public institution
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