Abstract
Environments that help reduce stress or facilitate recovery from mental fatigue are called restorative environments, and many studies have been conducted on these environments. The International Association for People-Environment Studies (IAPS), which is largely a Europe-based organization, includes interest and research groups called Networks for each major topic, and the Restorative Environment Network was established in 2008 as one of the Networks. Recently in Japan, the number of studies concerning this topic has been gradually increasing. In this article, I would like to pay attention to this topic and thus vitalize further research in Japan. For this purpose, I have collected papers that discuss environmental restorativeness from diverse viewpoints.
