With regard to the fact that abandoning of farmland is inevitable due to diminishing work force in Japan, this paper aims to investigate ways to manage cultural landscape by regional shrinkage of cultivated area. The difficulty of farmland concentration by farmland relocation is clarified through survey questionnaires and interviews. Because the citrus orchard involves long-term management, it is found that its discontinuity is what discourages inheritance of agricultural platform to the next generation. This paper concludes with the potential solution to this problem by introducing an example of mutual complement between incoming and elderly farmers, which is a way to manage cultural landscape by sustainable inheritance of agricultural platform, and discusses the possibility of downscaling-design.
