Japan Wants People To Work Remotely From Its Beautiful National Parks, And There Are Even Charging Sockets And WiFi

As Japan adjusts to the new work from home coronavirus norm, national parks across the country are adapting and luring office workers back to nature.

Several Japanese national parks have added Wi-Fi access points and assembled rentable workstations at hotels and campsites, with support from the Japanese Environmental Ministry.

“We want people to engage in remote work while relaxing in an environment away from their usual daily life,” an official at the Kyukamura Kishu Kada resort hotel at Setonaikai National Park told Japan Times.

Some of the national parks that are implementing the program include Setonaikai, Japan’s largest national park known for its fishing villages, Aso-Kuju known for its volcanoes, and Nikko, a wooded, mountainside park.

The national parks themselves are being tasked with determining how to welcome the new teleworkers. Some are establishing hotel rooms that are available for a few hours at a time as a rentable workstation. Others are building workstations in the middle of nature, using tents, portable power stations and Wi-Fi hotspot devices. The temporary “natural” workstations are set up and disassembled by park resort staff. They also provide food for the visitors, allowing them to focus on their work and their leisure.

“We would like to offer a plan in which guests can work in the morning and enjoy activities such as trekking and canoeing with their families in the afternoon,” the hotel official told Japan Times.

Check out the full article from Travel + Leisure here.