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Moreover, the local residents were expressing a desire to revitalize the city and create a place where younger generations will want to live and work. With that need as the starting point, the TSUNEISHI Group launched a project to help improve the appeal of Onomichi. The idea that first came to mind was to rehabilitate heritage assets in the community. Onomichi has always had a lot of buildings with historical value. However, many of them had become vacant and dilapidated. The project team thought that these buildings could be given new life to create new value that would appeal to younger generations, while also helping to preserve the culture of Onomichi. The team embarked on three successive projects. In 2012, they began to restore two historical residences: Shimazui Manor, built as a Western-style villa for a wealthy merchant in the 1930s, and Izumo House, once a retreat for members of the ruling Matsue clan of Izumo Province Shimane prefecture in the late 1800s. The two residences were then opened as an accommodation named Setouchi Minato no Yado. In 2014, the second project was completed, which involved renovating an unused shipping warehouse to create ONOMICHI U2, a facility with accommodation, restaurant, cafe, bakery, shop and bicyleshop. Completed in 2018, the third project was a complex with hotel, LOG, created by renovating an old apartment building. What these three projects have in common is that the structures are inherently attractive, making them worth saving for future generations. By preserving historic places that have long been etched into people\u2019s memories, the team wanted to enable many people to get reacquainted with the charm of Onomichi and the Setouchi region.","twitter:image":"https:\/\/www.tsuneishi-g.jp\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_9440.png"},"aioseo_meta_data":{"post_id":"25386","title":null,"description":null,"keywords":null,"keyphrases":{"focus":{"keyphrase":"","score":0,"analysis":{"keyphraseInTitle":{"score":0,"maxScore":9,"error":1}}},"additional":[]},"primary_term":null,"canonical_url":null,"og_title":null,"og_description":null,"og_object_type":"default","og_image_type":"default","og_image_url":null,"og_image_width":null,"og_image_height":null,"og_image_custom_url":null,"og_image_custom_fields":null,"og_video":"","og_custom_url":null,"og_article_section":null,"og_article_tags":null,"twitter_use_og":false,"twitter_card":"default","twitter_image_type":"default","twitter_image_url":null,"twitter_image_custom_url":null,"twitter_image_custom_fields":null,"twitter_title":null,"twitter_description":null,"schema":{"blockGraphs":[],"customGraphs":[],"default":{"data":{"Article":[],"Course":[],"Dataset":[],"FAQPage":[],"Movie":[],"Person":[],"Product":[],"ProductReview":[],"Car":[],"Recipe":[],"Service":[],"SoftwareApplication":[],"WebPage":[]},"graphName":"WebPage","isEnabled":true},"graphs":[]},"schema_type":"default","schema_type_options":null,"pillar_content":false,"robots_default":true,"robots_noindex":false,"robots_noarchive":false,"robots_nosnippet":false,"robots_nofollow":false,"robots_noimageindex":false,"robots_noodp":false,"robots_notranslate":false,"robots_max_snippet":"-1","robots_max_videopreview":"-1","robots_max_imagepreview":"large","priority":null,"frequency":"default","local_seo":null,"breadcrumb_settings":null,"limit_modified_date":false,"ai":null,"created":"2025-04-18 19:08:57","updated":"2025-06-05 12:59:09","seo_analyzer_scan_date":null},"aioseo_breadcrumb":"<div class=\"aioseo-breadcrumbs\"><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsuneishi-g.jp\/english\/\" title=\"Home\">Home<\/a>\n\t\t<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb-separator\">\u00bb<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsuneishi-g.jp\/english\/sustainability\/\" title=\"Sustainability\">Sustainability<\/a>\n\t\t<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb-separator\">\u00bb<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsuneishi-g.jp\/english\/sustainability\/sustainability_tag\/keyword\/community-engagement\/\" title=\"Relationships with Communities\">Relationships with Communities<\/a>\n\t\t<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb-separator\">\u00bb<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb\">\n\t\t\tPioneering Onomichi\u2019s Future by Renovating Historic Buildings\n\t\t<\/span><\/div>","aioseo_breadcrumb_json":[{"label":"Home","link":"https:\/\/www.tsuneishi-g.jp\/english\/"},{"label":"Sustainability","link":"https:\/\/www.tsuneishi-g.jp\/english\/sustainability\/"},{"label":"Relationships with Communities","link":"https:\/\/www.tsuneishi-g.jp\/english\/sustainability\/sustainability_tag\/keyword\/community-engagement\/"},{"label":"Pioneering Onomichi&#8217;s Future by Renovating Historic Buildings","link":"https:\/\/www.tsuneishi-g.jp\/english\/sustainability\/2023\/03\/story02\/"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsuneishi-g.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sustainability\/25386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsuneishi-g.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sustainability"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsuneishi-g.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/sustainability"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsuneishi-g.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsuneishi-g.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=25386"},{"taxonomy":"sustainability-format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsuneishi-g.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sustainability-format?post=25386"},{"taxonomy":"sustainability-cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsuneishi-g.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sustainability-cat?post=25386"},{"taxonomy":"business-segment","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsuneishi-g.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/business-segment?post=25386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}