Abstract
The aim for Share Village Project is to renovate traditional old Japanese houses, known as Kominka, to establish the member-based guest houses. The project began in 2015 in Gojome Town in Akita Prefecture In which aging and depopulation was advancing. By cloud funding, this project succeeded and gathered about 1,000 members. Thanks for the projects, the city dwellers who were total strangers, visited their second home town and had fellowship with the local residents who are very attached to their community. Having interviewed 66 people and gathered their comments, this study clarifies the impact and shows how the rural and the urban community networks have connected. The graph analytics shows the change of community transformation, from the present to the past, after SV projects started.
