Miyako Hotels & Resorts is responding to the Plastic Resource Recycling Promotion Act by replacing the five designated amenities (toothbrush, comb, brush, razor, shower cap), plastic forks, knives, spoons, stirrers, and straws with alternative materials and lighter products.

[FY2023 results]
Usage per guest: 41% lower than conventional products
[2024 target]
Usage per guest: Reduced by 50% compared to fiscal 2021

In order to protect the environment, Miyako Hotels & Resorts ask guests staying consecutive nights to opt out of cleaning services.
Your generosity in supporting this initiative will be used as a donation for our environmental conservation activities.
*For hygienic reasons, we clean the rooms once every three days.

Starting in April 2023, Miyako City Osaka Hommachi will stop providing bottled mineral water in guest rooms in order to reduce plastic waste. Instead, it will install water servers on every floor and provide sustainable water bottles made from recycled resin in all guest rooms.
In addition, we have distributed original reusable bottles to hotel staff and encourage guests to bring their own bottles, and are working to reduce plastic waste throughout the facility.

The Blue Seafood Guide is a list of sustainable seafood that is kind to the earth, based on the idea that by prioritizing the consumption of sustainable seafood, Japan can support its fishing industry while helping to restore depleted marine resources.
We select sustainable seafood based on our own scientifically-defined methodology, which is based on the principles of the UN FAO's "Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries." We support the UN's Sustainable Development Goal SDGs No. 14, "Conserve and sustainably use the oceans and seas," and aim to realize a sustainable society.
We support this idea and have joined forces with other partners to provide knowledge and information to help people make sustainable choices.

 

Since December 2021, Miyako Hotel Kyoto Hachijo has been working with Kyoto Prefectural Agricultural High School to learn about and practice the importance of food and the SDGs. The hotel turns eggs, meat, vegetables, and other produce produced at Kyoto Prefectural Agricultural High School into safe and secure dishes for guests to enjoy.
In addition, from August 4, 2022, we will start operating "Compost" with the goal of recycling food waste and circulating food. By providing herbs grown in soil composted from vegetable waste from the kitchen in the restaurant, we will realize a small-scale service aiming for a circular society.

Starting in December 2022, Miyako Hotel Kyoto Hachijo will be decorating the west entrance of the hotel with flowers four times a year as part of the "＃Medel-Megul Hotel" initiative. This activity, which uses compost from the hotel's compost pile to create flower beds, is part of the "#TaberuMeguruHotel" SDG initiative, which is being undertaken in collaboration with Kyoto Prefectural Agricultural High School. Working alongside the Agricultural High School students every time is the garden staff, who are the unsung heroes of the hotel. Although not in a particularly conspicuous position, the event was planned with the aim of raising awareness of the important behind-the-scenes work that maintains the hotel's landscape and beauty, and also to provide the high school students with an opportunity to interact with senior staff whose profession is to cultivate and care for flowers and plants.

As part of a research project by Professor Oyama of the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, The Westin Miyako Kyoto will be installing a compost pit using some of the food waste discarded by the hotel from August 2023. The compost is made using a method called dry composting, which does not require water and uses only microorganisms and high-quality kitchen waste (food waste from the All Day Dining "RAQOU"). In the future, the hotel aims to play a part in recycling resources by having contracted farmers use the pit to grow strawberries and figs, and then planning and providing products using those crops for the hotel.

Although the rabbitfish is a fish with high-quality white meat, it is difficult to process and is rarely distributed. In recent years, the decline of fishing grounds due to the fish eating seaweed, known as "rocky shore denudation," has become an environmental problem.
As part of the SDGs , CAFÉ EMPATHY at Miyako Hotel Hakata has implemented an initiative to protect the environment while enjoying delicious food by serving rabbitfish on the menu.
(Photo: RKB Mainichi Broadcasting https://rkb.jp/contents/202307/202307187012/)

Osaka Marriott Miyako Hotel supports regenerative agriculture by mixing citrus peels that would otherwise be wasted during cooking into compost and spreading it on the fields. The produce from the fields is used in the dishes served in the restaurant.

Sheraton Miyako Hotel Osaka will begin donating leftover lettuce from its kitchens to Tennoji Zoo from the end of 2023, and discarded bread from October 2024. This is an environmental measure that will help reduce food waste, albeit slightly (about 4-5 kg ​​provided per week), so the hotel hopes to continue this initiative. The lettuce scraps are mainly used as food for chimpanzees at the zoo, and the bread is mainly used as food for harvest mice and Egyptian fruit bats, making it a mutually beneficial activity that will reduce food costs for the zoo.

At Osaka Marriott Miyako Hotel, some of the agricultural products used in the dishes served at its restaurants are produced at farms certified under JGAP, a certification system created for Japanese agriculture and a standard used by farms and producer groups working towards sustainable agricultural and livestock production.
 

Miyako Hotel Gifu Nagaragawa registered as a "Gifu Seiryu GAP Partner" established by Gifu Prefecture in November 2021. The hotel incorporates GAP-certified ingredients in the menus of its three restaurants and drive-thru, supporting increased awareness and consumption of Gifu Seiryu GAP.
*GAP is an initiative to provide safe and reliable agricultural products to consumers by identifying risks from the perspectives of food safety, environmental conservation, and labor safety, and making repeated improvements to achieve sustainability.

 

In December 2022, Hotel Kintetsu Universal City City's casual restaurant "Epoch" was registered as an "Osaka City Zero Food Leftovers Promotion Store" promoted by the Osaka City Environment Bureau as an effort to reduce food waste and leave as much food as possible.

In February 2023, Miyako Hotel Amagasaki banquet halls and restaurants were certified as "Mottainai! Amagasaki Promoters," a system launched by Amagasaki City in January 2023 to promote the reduction of food waste, such as by introducing small portion menus and raising awareness of reducing food waste.

Osaka Marriott Miyako Hotel will be using FSC-certified placemats at its Live Kitchen COOKA from March 2022. FSC certification is a system that delivers products from properly managed forests that are in line with environmental, social, and economic benefits to consumers in a visible form, thereby indirectly returning economic benefits to producers.
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At Miyako Resort Shima Bayside Terrace, the coffee served as an additional service in the guest rooms (Ocean Wing) has been changed to drip coffee that is Rainforest Alliance certified. Sustainable coffee is already being used in the cafe and restaurant, and now all coffee served in the hotel is in line with the SDGs.
Miyako Resort Okushima Aqua Forest uses coffee beans from Rainforest Alliance certified farms at its restaurant, Hamanagi. These coffee beans are certified by an international non-governmental organization (NGO) whose mission is to protect biodiversity and ensure sustainable livelihoods for people, and are produced in strict compliance with standards that are kind to the global environment and contribute to sustainable production areas and improving the lives of workers and their families.



 

We created an afternoon tea stand using wood from Ise no Mori. Three different types of wood were used to express the diversity and natural richness of Mie's forests.
Additionally, workshops for guests are held using wood from Owase Hinoki and Ise no Mori.
In 2021, these activities were recognized and the company was certified as having the "Wood Use Declaration," which actively promotes the use of wood from Mie Prefecture. Going forward, the company will also continue to produce coasters using recycled wood from furniture and other sources, and will continue to work to protect the richness of forests.
 

In August 2022, Shima Kanko Hotel produced original coasters using various tree species grown in Ise Forest, Mie Prefecture, and began using and selling them in the hotel facilities. Using eight types of high-quality wood that would otherwise be left over when making furniture, the hotel also focuses on the mountain environment, which is the source of the ocean's richness, and hopes that guests will feel the warmth of wood and the cycle of nature.

At the Shima Kanko Hotel The Shima Kanko Hotel The Bay Suite 15th Anniversary Event held in October 2023, a local shell craft artist thinly polished the abalone shells used in cooking and created napkin rings combining them with SHINJU cultivated in Ago-Bay . By processing the abalone shells as well as the ingredients, new value was created.

Ten Terra Charge EV chargers will be installed at Miyako Hotel Gifu Nagaragawa, Miyako Hotel Kyoto Hachijo, and Miyako Resort Shima Bayside Terrace, and charging services will begin in February 2024, providing comfortable and sustainable travel and accommodation experiences.
As the spread of EVs and the expansion of EV charging infrastructure are accelerating rapidly toward achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, we have put in place the infrastructure to enable EV owners to travel in their EVs with peace of mind.

The Westin Miyako Kyoto has installed a standard charging station for electric vehicles as part of the hotel's efforts towards the SDGs. Two standard chargers (8 kW) for Porsche genuine electric vehicles have been installed, allowing charging of all domestic electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid vehicles, including Porsche models. The station is available for use by hotel guests, including those staying overnight, attending banquets, and using the restaurant.
 

Sheraton Miyako Hotel Osaka has installed a solar power generation system with a battery capacity of 100kW and an installation area of ​​approximately 1,200m² on the roof of its banquet hall in an effort to reduce CO2 emissions.
 

As part of its carbon neutral initiative, Shima Kanko Hotel is offering an eco-friendly tourist experience, the "bicycle rental." Starting in October 2022, the hotel will be introducing electric-assist bicycles, making this an activity that can be enjoyed comfortably by guests of all ages.

Four hotels - Sheraton Miyako Hotel Tokyo Hotel Tokyo, Sheraton Miyako Hotel Osaka, The Westin Miyako Kyoto, and Osaka Marriott Miyako Hotel - are participating in "EARTH HOUR," one of the world's largest social good projects, in which hotels turn off their lights at the same time on the same day around the world to show their commitment to preventing global warming and protecting the environment.
 

As part of efforts to comply with the Act on Promotion of Resource Recycling of Plastics, which will come into effect in April 2022, Miyako Hotel Hakata is gradually replacing the soap, shower gel, shampoo, conditioner, and body lotion in guest rooms with pouch-type products.
This pouch type uses 64.77% less plastic than the bottle type of the same brand.

 

Shima Kanko Hotel has changed the guest room amenities at the CLASSIC and the BAY SUITES from disposable individual packaging to refillable pump bottles starting in April 2022. By reducing plastic waste, we are easing the burden on the surrounding environment and operating a sustainable hotel.

 

The Westin Miyako Kyoto has changed its bathroom amenities from July 2022. We are reducing the number of plastic bottles used, including shampoo, conditioner, and body shampoo, by changing them to wall-mounted residence style bottles.

Miyako Hotels & Resorts supports and promotes the NO-FOODLOSS PROJECT, a national movement in which the public and private sectors work together to reduce food waste.
The logo mark of the National Food Loss Reduction Campaign (Rosnon) is a statement of our commitment to reducing food waste, and the logo mark is effectively displayed and used in restaurants and banquets.
We are also promoting the "3010 (Sanmaruichimaru) Campaign"*, and are promoting it at banquets held in hotels by placing POP displays and having the MC make announcements.
(※) 3010 Campaign: A campaign to reduce food waste. It encourages people to sit down and enjoy their meal 30 minutes after the start of a party and 10 minutes before the end.

Miyako Hotels & Resorts, in collaboration with Kinki Nippon Tourist, has launched a travel plan that contributes to protecting the global environment by utilizing the "carbon offset" system to offset (cancel) the emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2) that are generated during travel and accommodation.

 

Shima Kanko Hotel produced its own original eco-bag in November 2023. It was designed for environmentally conscious guests to use on a daily basis, and the fabric is made of fair trade cotton. Other designs are also being developed, which will contribute to the achievement of the SDGs by reducing the use of carry-out bags.