With the cheap yen and visitors flooding Japan, social media sites are overflowing with itinerary and transit questions. Should I get a JR PASS or not, how much cash do I need, and most of all: where can I get a Suica? The ongoing Suica • PASMO shortage, coming up […]
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Apple Maps Japan 2024: Look Around expansion but no new maps
Latest updates In 2023 Apple rolled out Look Around expansions in Tokyo, Chiba, Kyoto and Osaka for all roads classified as public in those prefectures. These were the first prefectures that Apple ‘completely mapped’ gradually starting in 2018. Capital city or select city and district additions for Aichi, Hyogo, Gunma, […]
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iOS 16 Apple Maps Quick Look
In 2018 Eddie Cue said, “We have been working on trying to create what we hope is going to be the best map app in the world, taking it to the next step. That is building all of our own map data from the ground up.” After 10 years of […]
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When will Japan get Apple’s new map? Part 2: the private road problem
In part 1 we examined Apple Map Japan Image Collection for 2022 and concluded that all of Tokyo, Chiba, Kanagawa, Kyoto and Osaka prefectures will have been ‘completely mapped’. But this isn’t really true: yes official public roads will have been mapped but not private roads…and there are lots of […]
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The Reddit run-down
I joined Reddit for a few months in 2018, mainly to get in contact with FeliCa Dude, but soon left as I found subreddit comment threads a swampy, treacherous place. There was great content in the discussions to be sure but too much of it was people talking past each […]