"Almost anything!" is here
Making things, art, design, programming, business. Opening a shop, selling your work, growing vegetables on the farm next door. Kodomo Publica is a place where children can take on whatever catches their interest. The teachers are artists and shop owners who live in Kitakagaya. As adults in the neighborhood come to know their names, children discover what they want to try.
It is located inside the second farm of Minna no Uen Kitakagaya, and is one site together with the shared kitchen & market "Publica," which opened in June 2025.
The children's currency "puubu"
100 yen is 1 puubu. Your donations and sponsorships become the source of the "puubu" that reach children's hands. A child who visits for the first time gets 1 puubu, and 2 puubu when they register. They earn "puubu" by joining workshops and quests or minding the penny-candy shop, and can spend them on shopping or workshops. It is a way to learn how money works through play.
Results for fiscal 2025
From the fiscal 2025 annual report.
- Total visitors: 635
- Registered child members: 50
- Workshops: 11 (9 new types of workshops created)
- Quests: 12
- "Puubu" issued: 320
- Plants grown by the Kids' Field Club: 13 varieties
- Volunteers: 6
This project receives a grant from the Osaka Prefecture Welfare Fund, Community Welfare Promotion Grant, for "Building Connected Places to Belong." It is run by an executive committee formed with Kagaya Shopping Street, the neighborhood association federation, and the PTA. For fiscal 2026, we aim for more than 1,000 participants in total.
What we want to keep going with your donations
Participation is free for children. Your donations cover workshop materials, honoraria for the neighborhood's teachers, the issuing of "puubu," and seedlings and tools for the field club. Grants have a time limit. To keep this place going, we ask for your support.
For sign-ups and the latest schedule, please see the Kodomo Publica website.
