TBJ × Earth Company
Travel thatRegenerates.
Three days in Bali —
where every seat empowers the next changemaker.
A 3-day study tour · Bali, 2026
September 10 – 12 | Ubud, Bali | 20 seats
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Beyond a Tour
Travel that
empowers the next.
At TBJ, every program is built as a regenerative system: one journey nourishes the next, and travel becomes a way to give back.
100% of the proceeds from this tour fund scholarships that empower the next generation of changemakers. The seat you take in Bali becomes someone else's seat at TBJ.
Tour participants → Young changemakers we empower with scholarships
This is already how TBJ runs. Season 1 brought together 21 participants, 25+ individual sponsors, and 12+ corporate partners — every role feeding the same circulation.
Join the regeneration —
empower the next.
About TBJ
The Borderless Journey
A community for cultivating Japan's next generation of boundary-crossers — supporting Japanese tradition, spirituality, and emerging leadership.
In a time when the future feels unclear, TBJ exists to help people see themselves through the lens of crossing borders, raise leaders with a global perspective, and build a circular ecosystem that keeps society alive and well.
About Earth Company
Earth Company
A non-profit based in Ubud, Bali that supports change-makers across the Asia-Pacific region.
To shape a regenerative future, Earth Company runs a leadership program for the next generation of social entrepreneurs, operates the eco-hotel Mana Earthly Paradise, and offers learning programs for organizations.
Why This Trip
Stand somewhere
a tourist wouldn't.
Bali, the island people call paradise. Terraced rice fields, daily ceremony, golden afternoons. And, just behind the tourism economy, mountains of waste and quiet poverty.
This isn't a tour that picks one side. Three days where you see both — and where the contrast cracks open your assumptions about what a “good life” looks like.
We stay at Mana Earthly Paradise, Southeast Asia's first B Corp-certified eco-hotel. Your navigators, Tomohiro Hamakawa and Azusa Sako of Earth Company, have spent over a decade building trust on the ground — opening doors that otherwise stay closed.
6 Themes
Six places that move you, body and mind.
Not just thinking — using all five senses to cross the line between “the world” and “yourself.”
Six experiences designed to widen your inspiration and shake your heart.
A clinic that welcomes mothers who can't afford care from around the world and provides medical support free of charge. A place where you can feel the radical circulation of love and care, and meet the dignity of life directly.
Behind Bali's beautiful beach resorts is the reality of where waste actually goes. Standing here forces us to face the cost of our convenience and rethink what civilization is built on.
An upcycling workshop that transforms discarded materials into beautiful interiors. A glimpse of what creativity and action can do when they're aimed at social problems instead of complaints.
A hands-on experience of regenerative agriculture — farming that gives back instead of taking. The sense of being inside an ecosystem, felt in your body, mud and all.
Time to come back into your body, guided by Bali's natural energy. A break from a life that runs mostly on thinking — and a return to the integration of mind, body, and spirit.
Conversation with the Earth Company team — people who embody both ‘solving social problems’ and ‘working happily.’ The kind of inspiration that quietly rearranges what work even is.
3 Days
The flow of three days.
Stand in a world you don't yet know.
With : Tomohiro Hamakawa + Azusa Sako
With : Azusa Sako
Behind Bali's beautiful resorts is where waste actually goes. Standing here forces us to face the cost of our convenience.
With : Tomohiro Hamakawa + Azusa Sako
Time to put the day's encounters into words, together.
Watch the borders dissolve.
With : Azusa Sako
Discarded materials transformed into beautiful interiors. Encounter the energy of solving social problems through creativity, not just complaint.
With : Tomohiro Hamakawa + Azusa Sako
A clinic that welcomes mothers without means from around the world and provides care for free. Feel the radical circulation of love and care.
With : Tomohiro Hamakawa + Azusa Sako
Carry the questions home.
With : Tomohiro Hamakawa + Azusa Sako
Agriculture that gives back rather than takes. Feel the sense of being part of an ecosystem — mud and all.
With : Tomohiro Hamakawa + Azusa Sako
Putting words to what shifted over the three days, and letting it shape what you do back home.
+ Yoga session | Reflection Time with Tomohiro Hamakawa | Stay at Mana Earthly Paradise
Notes for Participants
Day 1 : Program begins at 13:00 at Mana Earthly Paradise (Yoga Shala).* Optional lunch at Mana from around 12:00. If joining, we recommend arriving at Denpasar Airport by around 10:00.
Day 3 : Departure in the afternoon(we recommend evening flights)
* Self-arranged arrival and departure. If you'd like, we can help group participants with similar arrival times for shared transport.
* Schedule and visits may change due to safety or other circumstances.
Where You Stay
A place to stay that helps regenerate the world.
Mana Earthly Paradise
Southeast Asia's first B Corp-certified eco-hotel
Tucked into the green of Ubud, Mana Earthly Paradise is a next-generation eco-hotel run by Earth Company. It's not just a place to stay — it's a working laboratory for solving social problems.
Profits from the hotel go back into Earth Company's non-profit work. Just by staying here, your visit becomes support for change.
Rainwater filtration, solar power, composting. Japanese-fusion meals built around vegetables from the permaculture garden. Earthbag-architecture villas made of stacked sandbags — cool enough that air conditioning isn't needed.
From travel that consumes, to travel that joins the cycle. Life at Mana itself is a taste of a different kind of richness.
Who Guides You
The world opens differently
when you go with them.
Navigator
Tomohiro Hamakawa
Co-Founder, Chief Inquiry Officer · Earth Company
After graduating from Harvard, worked as an NGO staff member on the Tibetan Plateau, then earned a Master's degree at the Kennedy School of Government. Worked at the UK foundation CIFF, the international development NGO Kopernik, and the World Bank in Bangladesh, with a focus on social innovation, impact evaluation, and sustainability education. Co-founded Earth Company in Ubud, Bali, along with Mana Earthly Paradise — Southeast Asia's first B Corp-certified hotel. In 2014, received the Unsung Heroes of Compassion award from His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Won the Social Good Catapult at ICC Summit KYOTO 2025.
Navigator
Azusa Sako
Impact Academy Lead · Earth Company
An interest in international issues sparked by her childhood Boy Scout experience led Azusa to study at Kwansei Gakuin University's School of Policy Studies. In 2020, a university program took her to Timor-Leste and Bali, where she met Earth Company. While still a student, she founded a fair-trade student group and worked on new business development at an NPO. In 2022, she joined a major foreign-affiliated consulting firm as PMO for energy-sector system development. In 2024, she moved to Earth Company and relocated to Bali, where she now designs and runs learning programs to spread regenerative and trade-on business practices in Japan.
Coordinator
Wako Kudeken
CEO, Smoooth Inc. · Founder of The Borderless Journey
Born in Okinawa, Wako's early years in Hawaii and her return to Japan sparked an ongoing inquiry into happiness and what it means to live richly. She worked across the gourmet app TERIYAKI, FiNC Technologies, and DeNA during university, then joined Accenture after graduating from Aoyama Gakuin University. In 2021 she founded Smoooth Inc. She leads The Borderless Journey — an experiential program where meeting leaders from around the world helps participants step beyond their own assumptions. Drawing on field research across more than 35 countries and her conviction that "freedom and abundance keep updating through border-crossing," she delivers DEI not as training but as lived experience — building the starting points where people's lives quietly open up.
Why This Tour
Why travel this way.
Same island, different journey. Here's what changes when the design is different.
| TBJ | Typical Tour | |
|---|---|---|
| Who's in the room | ◎ From middle-schoolers to founders and CEOs — different generations, backgrounds, and countries. DEI-minded companies and people who think in wide angles gather here. | △ Groups skew toward one demographic. Inside the same company or school, real boundary-crossing rarely happens. |
| What connections last | ◎ Participants are the protagonists. Bonds that keep enriching your life long after the trip ends. | △ A random group; it's hard to build deep, lasting connections. |
| How society shows up | ◎ Every visit is a chance to see society from above — environment, economy, education, culture, all at once. | △ Some tours focus on a single theme, but the view stays narrow. |
| Where your fee goes | ◎ Just by joining, you're building an ecosystem. | △ You pay, you go, that's it. A transaction with no circulation. |
Who's in the room
From middle-schoolers to founders and CEOs — different generations, backgrounds, and countries. DEI-minded companies and people who think in wide angles gather here.
Groups skew toward one demographic. Inside the same company or school, real boundary-crossing rarely happens.
What connections last
Participants are the protagonists. Bonds that keep enriching your life long after the trip ends.
A random group; it's hard to build deep, lasting connections.
How society shows up
Every visit is a chance to see society from above — environment, economy, education, culture, all at once.
Some tours focus on a single theme, but the view stays narrow.
Where your fee goes
Just by joining, you're building an ecosystem.
You pay, you go, that's it. A transaction with no circulation.
Voices
From TBJ Season 1 participants.
“Abundance isn't just about you — it's about being alive together with everyone around you, and with the other beings on this planet. In a world where, before you know it, you've become the one harming or the one being harmed, what can we leave for the future?”
— Season 1 participant
“Something between frustration and anger toward myself rose up. The urge to break out of where I am — that became sharper. Don't think too hard, just try. What is it that I should let go of?”
— Season 1 participant
“Meeting in person is just different from online — I could think and feel with all my senses. The process of asking together what kind of space we want to live in, rather than chasing each individual want, made me feel something deep about the spirituality of living together.”
— Season 1 participant
21
Season 1 alumni
35+
Countries (founder Wako)
10+
Years of Earth Company
After the Tour
What stays with you.
Three days plant something. The work is what you do with it after — for months, and for years.
01
Reflection after return
An online reflection session a while after the tour, when the quieter realizations have had time to surface — to share with the same group.
02
TBJ community
Join the network of fellow boundary-crossers — including Season 1 alumni. Connections that cross age and profession become a lifelong asset.
03
The next crossing
From the TBJ Season 2 program to future study tours — keep layering new boundary-crossings and shape your own journey.
Your Impact
Your fee empowers
the next changemaker.
100% of the proceeds fund scholarships that empower the next generation of changemakers.
Every seat you take opens a seat for someone else.
15 participants
2 students
can join TBJ on scholarship
20 participants
3 students
can join TBJ on scholarship
Pricing
Program Fee
Three days you can't replicate, a decade of trust with local communities, and a cycle that funds the next generation. Your fee carries all of it.
With all discounts applied
¥159,000+
Combine the discounts that fit you, and find your own way in.
Four discounts — all combinable.
Early Bird
−¥20,000
by 2026.04.28
Limited to first 5 participants
Student (university or younger)
−¥10,000
Apply with student ID
Pair Discount
−¥10,000 each
When you bring someone outside TBJ — both of you receive it
Local Operations Support
−¥30,000
1 person only
An application-based slot for those who want to come but find finances tight (e.g., students)
Examples — what your combination might look like
Standard pricing (before discounts)
Smoooth World sponsors
* All prices include tax
About TBJ Crew
Become a TBJ Crew, join at Member Price.
TBJ Crew — those building Japan's next 100 years — starts at ¥5,500/month for individuals, ¥11,000/month for organizations. If you join the tour, you participate at Member Price; if you don't, your support still matters. Cancel anytime.
Included in the fee
- ✓Earth Company-led on-site program (training fees, donations to host orgs)
- ✓Meals during the program (lunch and dinner)
- ✓Designated local transportation
- ✓TBJ navigators and staff accompaniment
Not included
- —International airfare and transport between airport and venue
- —Accommodation (paid directly to Mana Earthly Paradise; ~¥5,600+ for 2 nights)
- —Meals outside the program, personal souvenirs, incidentals
- —Visa fees (if applicable)
Total cost estimate
What three days in Bali might cost you, all-in.
* The program fee shown is the lowest available, with the TBJ price and all discounts applied. Airfare varies by season and airline; accommodation by exchange rate and room type.
Accommodation (paid directly to Mana on-site)
Special program rates apply. After you sign up, we'll ask about your room preference.
Private rooms are limited and assigned in order of registration — if you'd like a private room, we recommend signing up early.
Dormitory (gender-separated)
~¥2,800 /night
Private room (single)
~¥14,000+ /night
Private room (twin / pair)
~¥14,000+ /night
* Final amounts depend on room arrangements and exchange rate at check-out.
Notes for participants
- ▸Self-arranged arrival and departure.Day 1 : Program begins at 13:00 at Mana Earthly Paradise (Yoga Shala).* Optional lunch at Mana from around 12:00. If joining, we recommend arriving at Denpasar Airport by around 10:00.Day 3 : Departure in the afternoon (we recommend evening flights).We can help group participants with similar arrival times for shared transport.
- ▸Indonesia requires at least 6 months of passport validity at the time of entry.
- ▸You're welcome to extend your stay before or after, or combine the program with sightseeing in Ubud.
- ▸Schedule and visits may change due to safety or other circumstances.
- ▸For any questions, please reach out to us at: support@smoooth.co.jp
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Travel.
Transform.
Empower the next.
September 10 – 12, 2026 | Ubud, Bali | 20 seats
Early Bird: −¥20,000 by April 28, 2026 (5 spots only)
Inquiries: support@smoooth.co.jp