Abstract
Facing the depopulation and aging society, the consolidation of existing public facility and sharing of public facilities beyond several municipalities has been recognized as an important issue in Japan. The purpose of this study is to propose an evaluation framework for the actual situation about “sharing” of public facility crossing municipalities aim at the consolidation of existing public facilities. By conduction the case analysis of 12 cultural facilities and 18 sports facilities at 3 cities and 4 towns of Chuwa and Seiwa Region, Nara Prefecture using questionnaire survey targeting on the activity holders and users of each facility, this study verified the effectiveness of the evaluation framework proposed. From the above evaluation results, this study also extracted the targets facility for the consolidation and target facilities considered reasonable for “sharing” beyond the 3 cities and 4 towns from the existing target facilities. Finally, this study summarizes some suggestions about the proposed evaluation framework toward the practical application in the evaluation for other public facilities.
