Consisting of the new Kyushu University campus and surrounding region, this zone will bring together residential areas and R&D to play a leading role in the development of the Academic City.

The university transit system will give consideration to both the environment and welfare issues, maintaining a balance between public and personal transportation while providing the convenience appropriate for a science city.

These regional cores will receive R&D and industrial functions spun off from the core zone, branches of R&D firms, and new residential areas. As a model of a new development concept for the 21st century, it is based on coexisting with nature and scenery in the Itoshima region.