More people growing vegetables for food safety, healing purposes

TOKYO —

An increasing number of people are growing vegetables on balconies and even on a rooftop garden at a railway station to ensure food safety and for healing purposes.

There are now vegetable cultivation sets that come with a pot, seeds and culture soil.

On top of JR Ebisu Station in Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward overlooking Tokyo Tower and Roppongi Hills, there is a 500-square-meter vegetable garden for rent in a corner of the roof, where a lawn and flowerbeds spread.

Called ‘‘Soradofarm,’’ it was opened by East Japan Railway Co, or JR East, last fall. The annual fee is 93,000 yen for a three-square-meter site and 117,000 yen for five square meters.

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