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100tokyo: Mapping Tokyo’s cultural venues

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As we head into a long weekend here in Tokyo, here’s a fun new website to give you some ideas about what to do on the weekend. 100tokyo.jp is billed as a “curated cultural guide to the most charming and unique facets of Japan’s capital city.” I suggest you start with the map where you can explore interesting creative venue around the city. The site was created by design studio Cinra, and organized by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Overall it’s a one of the more promising efforts at city promotion I’ve seen on the web [1]. And hopefully over the next few years leading up to the Tokyo Olympics we might we more attempts like this. Perhaps METI could get behind some civic hackathons? Not packing Japanese and English text side by side in the same content blocks might have been wiser though, in my view. It just annoys readers of both languages.  ↩

100tokyo

As we head into a long weekend here in Tokyo, here’s a fun new website to give you some ideas about what to do on the weekend. 100tokyo.jp is billed as a “curated cultural guide to the most charming and unique facets of Japan’s capital city.” I suggest you start with the map where you can explore interesting creative venue around the city.

The site was created by design studio Cinra, and organized by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Overall it’s a one of the more promising efforts at city promotion I’ve seen on the web [1]. And hopefully over the next few years leading up to the Tokyo Olympics we might we more attempts like this.

Perhaps METI could get behind some civic hackathons?

  1. Not packing Japanese and English text side by side in the same content blocks might have been wiser though, in my view. It just annoys readers of both languages.  ↩

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Google Street View broadens its horizons, crashes a party in Japan

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大きな地図で見る Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) today has announced that it has expanded its Street View coverage in Japan to a number of new areas, including Kochi and Tokushima prefectures [1]. What’s especially cool about this latest addition to Street View is that in Tokushima city, Google cooperated with a local tourist organization so that it could shoot the Awa dance festival, an annual event where musicians and dancers parade through the streets wearing traditional costumes. As you can see in Google’s video below, the company rolled its famous Street View trike through the procession, capturing the spectacle all the way. As fun as the video is, take a moment to explore the Street View map as well, if you want to feel like you’re in the middle of the action. On a more serious note, Google’s Street View has served an important archival purpose in Japan in the past as well, capturing the state of the areas affected by the tragic 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Overall, it’s good to see the company getting involved in all these ways to share and preserve the country’s culture and history. The full list can be found in Google’s blog post here (Japanese).  ↩


大きな地図で見る

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) today has announced that it has expanded its Street View coverage in Japan to a number of new areas, including Kochi and Tokushima prefectures [1].

What’s especially cool about this latest addition to Street View is that in Tokushima city, Google cooperated with a local tourist organization so that it could shoot the Awa dance festival, an annual event where musicians and dancers parade through the streets wearing traditional costumes.

As you can see in Google’s video below, the company rolled its famous Street View trike through the procession, capturing the spectacle all the way. As fun as the video is, take a moment to explore the Street View map as well, if you want to feel like you’re in the middle of the action.

On a more serious note, Google’s Street View has served an important archival purpose in Japan in the past as well, capturing the state of the areas affected by the tragic 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Overall, it’s good to see the company getting involved in all these ways to share and preserve the country’s culture and history.

  1. The full list can be found in Google’s blog post here (Japanese).  ↩

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