Taketa – Rejuvenating City

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The City of Taketa offers young creative people ideal conditions in which they can make a living.

Since 2012, 29 young innovators have moved to Taketa and set up businesses there and local people who had left for the big cities have now returned. Young artists and crafts people are also now coming to settle there. Taketa offers them an alternative way of life in the twenty-first century.