The rural areas face the danger of becoming more abandoned due to the recent transformative trends of more people choosing to live in urbanized areas and decreasing and aging population. The base of this thesis was born out of two workshops which were the result of a collaboration between Politecnico di Torino and Kyoto Institute of Technology. This research paper aims to find potential development opportunities in the rural landscapes with heritage focus through analyzing two case studies, of which both located in rural areas connected to traditional food production and consumption. In one case it is wine-production in Italy while in the other case it’s tea-production in japan.