Mountain town with temples and community gathering spaces

ZuCity Japan 2026

Sept 4 – Oct 5, 2026 · Komoro, Nagano, Japan

ZuCity Japan Daily Access

$80 USDT / day

24-hour access to all ZuCity Japan facilities - coworking, lounges, parties, dinners, and workshops. Explore community coliving, bleeding-edge biohacking, and traditional rural lifestyle experiences.

  • All venue spaces (coworking, lounges, basement club)
  • Community activities & workshops
  • Talks & panels
  • Parties & community meals
  • Shared cars
  • DeSci experiments & biohacking

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What is ZuCity Japan?

A month-long popup city for builders, artists, scientists, and free spirits in the mountains of rural Japan. Not a conference — a temporary society. You live together, eat together, build together, and figure things out together. Four themed weeks covering self-sovereignty, DeSci, longevity, policy, and community governance.

ZuCity Japan is hosted by ZuCity — a group of people who started buying abandoned houses in Komoro, Nagano and turned them into community-owned coliving infrastructure. Unlike traditional popup cities that rent hotels and vanish, everything built here stays. The venues, the equipment, the relationships — they compound year over year.

Venues

ZuCity Hub (Main Venue)

Coworking, Talks & Workshops, DeSci Experiments, Parties, Community Meals

GrandLine House

Sleeping, Art & Creativity, Chilling, Community Gatherings

Novels

Sleeping, Coworking, Community Gatherings

All venues are community-owned properties within walking distance of each other — renovated from abandoned houses during Build Month. Book rooms, day passes, and memberships through the app — longer stays get better rates.

Weekly Tracks

Sept 4–6

Self Sovereignty & d/acc

Offgrid/offline AI, energy, and economic systems. Workshops on mesh networks, offgrid energy, and food production. Talks on community-owned infrastructure and building in rural Japan.

Sept 11–13

DeSci, Longevity & Transhumanism

Japan biotech opportunities, bootstrapping a DeSci BioLab, BCI experiments, and long-term biomarker tracking.

Organizers: kiba, pedro / Frontier Humans

Sept 18–20

jp/acc Summit

Modern Meiji Restoration, Akiya Annihilation (how to buy, fix, and live in abandoned Japanese houses), Special Economic Zones, stablecoins, and RWA.

Sept 21–27

Core Week

ZuCity Future planning, reorganization from learnings of initial weeks, art projects, repairs & restoration.

The Location

Komoro sits at the foot of Mount Asama in Nagano Prefecture — 90 minutes from Tokyo by shinkansen, 20 minutes from Karuizawa. A historic castle town with 1,300-year-old zen temples, top-100 cherry blossom spots, dozens of onsens, and local soba so famous Tokyo named a chain after it. Cool mountain summers while the coast drowns in humidity. The kind of place that rearranges your priorities.

Read more about life in Komoro or how we buy abandoned properties for $2k–$30k.

Surrounding Events

July 14–17

Tokyo, Japan

WebX

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Aug 20–21

Bali, Indonesia

Coinfest Asia

A major Web3 event focused on networking and the Asian market.

Sept 4 – Oct 5

Komoro, Japan

Zuzalu City Japan

Zuzalu popup city event 1-hour from Tokyo in the mountains surrounded by temples, onsens, and ski resorts.

Sept 19–27

Tokyo, Japan

ETHGlobal Tokyo

Japan's main Ethereum community event.

Sept 29 – Oct 1

Seoul, Korea

Korea Blockchain Week

Major South Korean industry event.

Oct 7–8

Singapore

Token2049

A thing certain people choose to go to.

Want to arrive early and help shape the spaces? Build Month (July 1 – Aug 24) is the hands-on construction phase where volunteers transform our properties into the venues you see above. Build Month participants get first access and discounted rates. Learn about the community behind this, the town we call home, or how booking and discounts work.

Ready to join ZuCity Japan 2026?

ZuCity Japan 2026 — Annual Popup City in Komoro, Nagano