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Prefectural maps

Official map services published by all 47 prefectures — placing the start of inquiry in your own prefecture, before the national primary data of layer B.

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Hokkaido Disaster Prevention Portal

The prefectural disaster portal run by the Hokkaido Government Crisis Management Bureau. It gathers shelter-opening status by municipality, evacuation orders, weather warnings, and earthquake information, and lets you check evacuation sites on a map or as a list.

Pick your own municipality → see which shelters are open on the map → explain why those sites were chosen using terrain and hazard maps
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Local GovernmentDisasterDaily Life & Welfare

Hokkaido Forest Map

A forest map system published by the Hokkaido Government Fisheries and Forestry Department. Sub-compartment boundaries of privately owned forests covered by the regional forest plan can be browsed over base maps or aerial photographs, together with tree species, stand age, and restricted-forest status. It works on smartphones and tablets.

Pick one hillside near your town → read the species and stand age → work out why these trees are here, from terrain, climate, and the history of forestry
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MapStatistics
Local GovernmentGISOpen Data

Aomori Disaster Prevention Portal

The prefectural disaster information portal run by the Aomori Prefectural Government Crisis Management Bureau. Alongside guidance on checking hazard maps, it gathers information drawn from the prefecture's disaster GIS, such as evacuation sites and major medical institutions.

Show evacuation sites and hospitals on one screen → measure the distance from your home → check how they sit relative to rivers, coast, and cliffs on a topographic map
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Local GovernmentDisasterDaily Life & Welfare

Aoi Mori Open Data Catalogue (Aomori)

A catalogue site for finding open data held by Aomori Prefecture and its municipalities in one place. Users can also register public-interest data of their own, and the catalogue includes GIS-ready datasets such as forest resource statistics.

Download one dataset in a field you care about → map it in a GIS such as MANDARA or QGIS → compare the same indicator with a neighbouring prefecture and reason about the gap
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StatisticsMap
Local GovernmentOpen DataGIS

Iwate Digital Map

Iwate Prefecture's public GIS. Layers from several fields — crime incidence, erosion-control GIS content such as landslide hazard zones, and designated-road maps — can be stacked on a single map. Municipal websites within the prefecture also point here for checking landslide risk areas.

Display the landslide hazard zones → count how many houses and roads fall inside them → back up why that slope is dangerous using a geological map
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Local GovernmentGISDisaster

Iwate Universal Design Electronic Map

An electronic map from Iwate Prefecture for finding barrier-free and universal-design facilities from the map itself. It runs on the same prefectural GIS platform as the Iwate Digital Map.

Pick out the facilities along a route from the station to a destination → note where there are steps and accessible toilets → describe from the map who this town is easy to walk in, and who it is not
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Local GovernmentGISDaily Life & Welfare

Walking maps across Iwate ("Add 2,000 steps for better health")

A page where Iwate Prefecture gathers walking maps from around the prefecture as part of its health-promotion work, leading through to courses created by individual municipalities.

Pick one course in your own municipality → note its step count and distance → walk it and add the slopes and watercourses the map does not show
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MapOverview
Local GovernmentHealth & Sport

Miyagi Disaster Information Portal

The prefectural disaster portal run by the Miyagi Prefectural Government Crisis Management Department. It provides earthquake information and road-restriction information in real time, and doubles as the entrance to field-specific systems such as the prefecture's erosion-control and river-basin information systems.

Watch real-time road restrictions on a rainy day → overlay the restricted points on a topographic map → explain why the same places close again and again, from the rivers and the slopes
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Local GovernmentDisaster

Miyagi Forest Information System

Miyagi Prefecture's forest GIS, publishing map layers related to forests such as mountain-disaster risk districts, protection forests, and orthophotos. Layers can be switched on and off on the web map.

Overlay mountain-disaster risk districts with protection forests → find where the two do not coincide → turn "why is this stretch not a protection forest?" into your question
High SchoolUniversityResearcher
MapStatistics
Local GovernmentGISDisasterOpen Data

Open Data Map (Akita Open Data Portal)

The map view of the Akita Prefecture open data portal. Data held by the prefecture can be visualised on a map, and is also distributed in GIS-ready formats such as zipped shapefiles.

Spot one distribution that catches your eye on the map → load the same data into a GIS → test the reason for that distribution against terrain, population, and transport
High SchoolUniversityResearcher
MapStatistics
Local GovernmentOpen DataGIS

Akita Forest Information Service

The prefecture's forest GIS service, publishing forest information for privately owned forests in Akita — compartments and sub-compartments, forest plan maps and the like. Forests covered by the regional forest plan can be checked on the map.

Find stands of Akita cedar on the map → read the distribution of stand ages → connect the uneven planting years to post-war forestry policy
High SchoolUniversityResearcher
MapStatistics
Local GovernmentGISOpen Data

Yamagata Treasure Map

A cultural-property map published by Yamagata Prefecture, showing the locations of archaeological sites (buried cultural property areas) together with nationally and prefecturally designated, nationally registered, and nationally selected cultural properties. GIS data export was added in January 2026.

Look at how archaeological sites cluster in your town → check how they sit relative to rivers and terraces on a topographic map → put into words why people settled here long ago
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MapStatistics
Local GovernmentCultural HeritageGISTourism

Yamagata River and Erosion Control Information System

The comprehensive river and erosion-control information site run by the Yamagata Prefectural Government Public Works Department. The prefecture is divided into seven districts, and water levels, rainfall, and live camera images can be checked from the map.

Follow water levels on the map during heavy rain → measure the time lag between upstream and downstream → explain where the water comes from and goes, from the shape of the basin
Middle SchoolHigh SchoolUniversityResearcher
MapStatistics
Local GovernmentDisasterEarth Science

Fukushima Forest Map

A web forest GIS publishing geographic information on forests and forestry in Fukushima Prefecture. For forests covered by the regional forest plan, locations can be checked readily by tree species and stand age.

See where stands of the same species cluster → overlay elevation → work out what decides which species grows where, from climate and terrain
Middle SchoolHigh SchoolUniversityResearcher
MapStatistics
Local GovernmentGISOpen Data

Fukushima Disaster Prevention Portal

The prefectural disaster portal run by the Disaster Countermeasures Division of the Fukushima Prefectural Government. It brings shelter information together with weather and disaster information in one place, and together with the prefecture's disaster website serves as the entrance to hazard maps.

Display the shelters in your town → view them on the same screen as the weather information → write in your own words the conditions that would decide when to move
ElementaryMiddle SchoolHigh SchoolUniversityResearcher
MapStatistics
Local GovernmentDisasterDaily Life & Welfare

Ibaraki Digital Map (prefecture-wide integrated GIS)

A prefecture-wide integrated GIS built and operated jointly by Ibaraki Prefecture and every municipality within it. Map information held separately by the prefecture and by municipalities is published together on one electronic map, covering administrative information, everyday-life information, events, and tourism. It went into service in fiscal 2008.

Stack a prefectural layer and a municipal layer → see how the level of detail changes over the same place → think about who holds responsibility for what
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MapStatistics
Local GovernmentGISDaily Life & WelfareTourism

Ibaraki Health Road

A municipality-by-municipality list of the "Ibaraki Health Road" walking courses designated by Ibaraki Prefecture for health promotion, chosen so that everyone from children to older people can walk them safely. They can also be found on a map through the Ibaraki Digital Map.

Pick one Health Road in your municipality → consider what made it count as safe to walk → walk it yourself and write down the conditions it still lacks
ElementaryMiddle SchoolHigh SchoolUniversityResearcher
MapOverview
Local GovernmentHealth & Sport

Tochigi Marutto Map

Tochigi Prefecture's new integrated map system, in service since 11 March 2026. It brings disaster information and public-facility information — previously separate — onto a single map, covering hazard maps, real-time rainfall and river-level observations, real-time road and river camera images, the Tochigi cycle routes, major congestion points, and urban planning information such as land-use zoning. The former Tochigi map information system closed on 31 March 2026.

Stack hazard maps and public facilities on one map → count the facilities that fall inside a risk zone → answer, with conditions attached, whether those facilities could serve as evacuation sites
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MapStatistics
Local GovernmentGISDisasterDaily Life & Welfare

Tochigi Health-Building Road

A site introducing walking courses selected by Tochigi Prefecture. It carries 167 courses across the prefecture and can be searched by municipality, with distance, walking time, and characteristics given for each course.

Choose two courses of similar length → compare their elevation change and scenery → explain from the terrain why the same distance feels harder on one of them
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MapStatistics
Local GovernmentHealth & Sport

Mapping Gunma (Gunma integrated geographic information system)

Gunma Prefecture's integrated GIS for residents. Information the prefecture holds on safety and security, along with practical everyday information, is placed on an electronic map. Many fields are published — tourism facilities, environment, welfare, healthcare, disaster preparedness — with both desktop and smartphone versions.

Stack the welfare and healthcare layers with the disaster layer → look for places far from both → think about what the people living there would need
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Local GovernmentGISDisasterDaily Life & Welfare

Tourism Digital Map (Gunma official tourism site)

The tourism digital map on Gunma Prefecture's official tourism site — a digital version of the prefectural tourism map introducing sights and attractions across Gunma. Spots are presented by theme (hot springs, nature, food, traditional culture), and landmarks in each area appear as illustrations on the map itself.

Choose one theme and lay out its spots → overlay the hot springs and sights on topographic and geological maps → explain from the ground itself why they cluster where they do
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MapOverview
Local GovernmentTourism

Furusato Gunma Health Paths

Walking courses supervised by Gunma Prefecture, with course maps arranged by the prefecture's four regions — central, northern, western, and eastern Gunma.

Pick one course from each of the four regions → compare their terrain and land use → summarise why the scenery you walk through differs so much within one prefecture
ElementaryMiddle SchoolHigh SchoolUniversityResearcher
MapOverview
Local GovernmentHealth & Sport

Saitama Prefecture GIS Portal

An integrated GIS where geographic information held by Saitama Prefecture — hazard maps, barrier-free maps and more — is browsable across seven categories such as childcare and daily life, and healthcare and welfare. Multiple maps can be overlaid, and most can be downloaded as CSV, Excel, or shapefiles. The service opened on 30 January 2024.

Overlay two maps from different categories → count where they coincide and where they do not → put into words the gap between how government divides its fields and how life is actually lived
ElementaryMiddle SchoolHigh SchoolUniversityResearcher
MapStatistics
Local GovernmentGISDisasterDaily Life & WelfareOpen Data

Health Walking Maps (Saitama Kobaton Health Mileage)

On the site of Saitama Prefecture's health mileage programme, a list of walking courses recommended by individual municipalities. Tokorozawa, Tsurugashima, Moroyama, Yokoze, Satte, Kasukabe and others appear, and some courses are refreshed with the seasons.

Pick one course from a flat city and one from a hill town → compare the climb per unit of distance → list what actually decides how easy a route is to walk
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MapOverview
Local GovernmentHealth & Sport

Chiba Information Map

The prefecture's integrated map site, publishing Chiba's administrative and regional information online through maps and imagery. It holds maps across many fields, including urban planning information and buried cultural property areas, and since April 2022 data can also be downloaded across 24 categories such as the locations of prefectural institutions.

Display the buried cultural property areas → overlay the urban planning land-use zones → find one place where development and preservation collide, and write out the issue
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MapStatistics
Local GovernmentGISCultural HeritageOpen Data

Fusanokuni Walk-for-Health Map (Chiba)

A walking map created by Chiba Prefecture's dietary improvement volunteers, who picked roads that are easy to use and easy to walk locally and built courses of roughly 10,000 steps each. There are 102 courses in all, with step counts, distances, and times given for the whole route and for each landmark segment. Copies can also be consulted at the Chiba Prefectural Archives.

Read how the 10,000-step figure was assembled → draw a course on the same terms around your own home → walk it, time it, and reason about the difference
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MapStatistics
Local GovernmentHealth & Sport

Municipal walking maps (Chiba Prefecture)

A page on which the health promotion division of the Chiba Prefectural Government gathers the walking maps individual municipalities have made for themselves, to be used alongside the prefecture's own walking map.

Pick one prefectural course and one municipal course → compare what changes when the maker changes → write down what your own town's course still lacks
ElementaryMiddle SchoolHigh SchoolUniversityResearcher
MapOverview
Local GovernmentHealth & Sport

Tokyo Map (Tokyo Metropolitan Government integrated map)

An integrated map that gathers the map services held by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's many bureaus into a single site, run jointly by the Bureau of Digital Services and GovTech Tokyo. Ten map layers spanning disaster preparedness, environment and nature, digital services, welfare, and waterworks can be freely combined and stacked on one screen. Three ready-made themes — protecting yourself from summer heat, preparing for an earthquake, and preparing for flooding — open with the relevant maps already combined. Layers include the Tokyo Heat Map, the Tokyo Damage Estimate Map, emergency water supply stations, TOKYO FREE Wi-Fi, and projected inundation areas. The full release began on 20 August 2026.

Show your own ward or city → stack a disaster map and a daily-life map on one screen → explain why each facility sits where it does by overlaying terrain from the GSI Maps
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MapStatistics
Local GovernmentGISDisasterDaily Life & Welfare

TOKYO WALKING MAP

A portal run by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Bureau of Public Health that gathers walking courses created by wards, cities, and other bodies into one place. 555 courses are registered and can be searched by municipality, by major rail line, or by purpose. Each course carries estimates of distance, walking time, calories burned, and step count, with the conversion assumptions (4 km/h, 70 cm per step, 60 kg body weight) stated on the site. Features such as "Tokyo Machi-sanpo" and "Try walking for 10 minutes", plus a search for what lies around each course, are included. An English version is available.

Pick one course in your own municipality → note the distance and step estimate → walk it and add what the map does not show (slopes, traces of old rivers, old roads)
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MapStatistics
Local GovernmentHealth & SportTourismMultilingual

Tokyo Digital Twin 3D Viewer

The viewer for the Digital Twin Realisation Project led by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Bureau of Digital Services. Tokyo's buildings and streets are reproduced in 3D in cyberspace, and live river camera footage, real-time Toei bus data, and open data from metropolitan bureaus can be overlaid on the 3D city model. Alongside 3D city models of the special wards and the Tama area, it carries underground models of Shinjuku Station East and Tokyo Station. Three-dimensional point cloud data for the ward area (DSM, 0.25 m grid, microtopography renderings and four more, seven types in all) is free for secondary use for any purpose.

Look at the city in 3D, then view the same place by elevation on the GSI Maps → read the relationship between tall buildings and low ground → work out why high-rises stand here, from the subsoil and the regulations
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MapStatistics
Local GovernmentGISOpen Data

Tokyo Disaster Prevention Map

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government's official map for finding shelters and evacuation areas across the city. Alongside names and locations, it shows each shelter's opening status and crowding level during a disaster using five-step icons. Pages are available in several languages.

Display the nearest shelter to your home and to your school → walk and measure the route → consider whether the same route still works at night or in heavy rain
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MapStatistics
Local GovernmentDisasterDaily Life & WelfareMultilingual

Urban Planning Information Internet Service (Tokyo)

A service from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Bureau of Urban Development publishing the main urban planning information for Tokyo on a map. Areas where plans have been decided — land-use zones, planned urban roads, urban rapid transit railways — can be browsed as schematic location maps.

Read the land-use zoning of your own town by colour → compare it against the streetscape you actually see → test on a single street whether the rule came first or the town did
High SchoolUniversityResearcher
MapStatisticsLaw & Policy
Local GovernmentGISDaily Life & Welfare

Tokyo Open Data Catalogue

A platform run by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Bureau of Digital Services to promote the circulation and use of open data across Tokyo. It publishes GIS data for urban planning decisions (shapefiles produced by the Bureau of Urban Development, based on Tokyo's 1:2,500 topographic maps and the JGD2011 coordinate system), GIS data on greenery, and projected inundation area data.

Read the coordinate system and production year of the data you want, first → load it into a GIS → always record the source and the date in your report
High SchoolUniversityResearcher
StatisticsMap
Local GovernmentOpen DataGIS

e-Kana Map (Kanagawa)

The prefecture's integrated map site for viewing Kanagawa's map information online. It holds thematic maps across many fields — prefectural facilities, projected inundation areas, location maps of privately owned forests covered by the regional forest plan. Urban planning information is shown too, though for the exact land-use designations the site directs you to each city or town.

Overlay the projected inundation areas with prefectural facilities → count the facilities that would flood → propose from the terrain where the alternative bases should be
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MapStatistics
Local GovernmentGISDisaster

Kanagawa Data Map (open data catalogue)

The map delivery service of the Kanagawa Prefecture open data catalogue, presenting the prefecture's open data in map form. A companion "Kanagawa Open Data 3D Map" is published on a subdomain of the same catalogue.

Compare the same data on the 2D map and in 3D → write down one thing only the 3D view reveals → back that observation up with numbers
High SchoolUniversityResearcher
MapStatistics
Local GovernmentOpen DataGIS

Walking Roads (Kenko Niigata 21)

The walking-road information pages within "Kenko Niigata 21", the health promotion portal of the Niigata Prefectural Government's Health and Welfare Department, introducing walking courses across the prefecture.

Pick one coastal course and one inland course → ask whether each is walkable in winter → check the walkable season of a snow country against maps and climate statistics
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MapOverview
Local GovernmentHealth & Sport

Landslide (Special) Hazard Zone GIS Data (Niigata)

A page where the Erosion Control Division of the Niigata Prefectural Government publishes the landslide hazard zones and special landslide hazard zones it has designated, along with the underlying survey results, as GIS data covering the whole prefecture. The zone data can be taken out as geographic information.

Download the GIS data and clip it to your own municipality → count the dwellings inside the zones → trace on a timeline how the designation changed the way people live there
High SchoolUniversityResearcher
StatisticsMap
Local GovernmentDisasterOpen DataGIS

Toyama Prefecture GIS Site

The prefecture's GIS site, publishing map information to which Toyama Prefecture holds the copyright. Three prefectural offices — lifelong learning and cultural properties, nature conservation, and environmental preservation — share the same map information, displayed over GSI base tiles.

Overlay the cultural property and nature conservation layers → find the places both are protecting → ask why two different reasons for protection land on the same ground
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MapStatistics
Local GovernmentGISCultural Heritage

Town-Centre Walking Map (Toyama Health Lab)

The walking map on "Toyama Health Lab", the Toyama Prefectural Government's health promotion portal, introducing walking courses both indoors and outdoors.

Ask why indoor courses are offered at all → check that against winter climate statistics → explain how climate reshapes what health promotion looks like
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MapOverview
Local GovernmentHealth & Sport

Ishikawa River Comprehensive Information System

A real-time river information system run by the River Division of the Ishikawa Prefectural Government Public Works Department. Water levels, rainfall, dam figures, weather, and landslide information are shown both as an overview map and as tables, with alerts issued when hourly or cumulative rainfall, or flood-risk water levels, are exceeded.

Track rainfall and water level together on a day of heavy rain → measure how long the level takes to fall after the rain stops → explain that lag from the size and shape of the basin
Middle SchoolHigh SchoolUniversityResearcher
MapStatistics
Local GovernmentDisasterEarth Science

Hot Ishikawa Tabinet Digital Map

The digital map on Ishikawa Prefecture's official tourism site, run by the Ishikawa Prefecture Tourism League. Sightseeing spots, food, and accommodation across the prefecture can be browsed on the map and filtered by interest or means of travel.

Switch the means of travel between rail and car and compare → see on the map how the reachable area changes → write up the problem tourism faces where public transport is thin
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MapOverview
Local GovernmentTourism

Fukui River and Erosion Control Information

A comprehensive river and erosion-control information system run by the Fukui Prefectural Government Public Works Department, providing a landslide hazard zone management system, flood hazard information, flood hazard maps, and landslide hazard maps on a map.

Overlay the flood and landslide hazards → find places at risk from only one of them → show in a diagram how the direction of evacuation changes
Middle SchoolHigh SchoolUniversityResearcher
MapStatistics
Local GovernmentDisasterGIS

Fukui Designated Road Public System

A system in which Fukui Prefecture publishes information on roads designated under the Building Standards Act on a map, opened up to make administrative information easier to grasp.

Check whether the road in front of your home is a designated road → read the width and frontage conditions → explain the mechanism that decides what may and may not be built
High SchoolUniversityResearcher
MapStatisticsLaw & Policy
Local GovernmentGISDaily Life & Welfare

Map de Yamanashi (Yamanashi WebGIS)

The WebGIS operated by Yamanashi Prefecture. It offers many layers — landform classification maps, borehole logs with ground and soil-test data, index maps, address search, and landmark search for police stations, public facilities, fire stations and railway stations. Smartphone and lightweight versions are available.

View the landform classification map and a borehole log for the same point → match the shape of the surface against the strata beneath → write one paragraph on how this ground came to be
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MapStatistics
Local GovernmentGISEarth ScienceDisaster

Yamanashi at a Glance on the Map (Fuji-no-Kuni Yamanashi tourism net)

The map content on Yamanashi Prefecture's official tourism information site, run by the Yamanashi Tourism Organization. Tourism information can be explored with an overview map of the prefecture. The same site also publishes walking maps such as a guide to Yamanashi's castles and residences, and features on strolling and walking.

Lay out the castles and residences on the map → overlay the rivers and the shape of the basin → consider why they were sited there, from both defence and transport
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MapOverview
Local GovernmentTourismHealth & Sport

Shinshu Living Map (Nagano integrated geographic information system)

The integrated GIS run by the Planning and Promotion Department of the Nagano Prefectural Government. Bureaus inside the prefectural office share map information while also publishing it to residents online, covering mountain-disaster risk districts, steep-slope collapse risk points, designated landslide zones, erosion-control designated land, evacuation facilities, and forest-related information. Features include split-screen display, layer transparency, route search, KML export, and GPS location and address or facility search on the smartphone version.

Put risk points and evacuation facilities side by side in split-screen → draw a route with the route search → check whether that route passes through any risk point
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MapStatistics
Local GovernmentGISDisasterDaily Life & Welfare

Walking courses across Nagano

A collection of walking courses compiled by the Health and Welfare Department of the Nagano Prefectural Government from 270 routes recommended by the prefecture's 64 municipalities, arranged by region and by municipality. Each course is classed as flat, slightly undulating, or undulating, with regional pages for Saku, Josho, Suwa and others.

Pick one "flat" and one "undulating" course → measure the elevation change on the GSI Maps → estimate where the boundary between the classes actually falls
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Local GovernmentHealth & Sport

Prefecture-wide Integrated GIS Gifu

A prefecture-wide integrated map site publishing Gifu's administrative and regional information online through maps and imagery. It falls under the prefecture's Information Systems Division, with operation and maintenance by the Gifu Prefectural Construction Research Center, and is used jointly by the prefecture and its municipalities. Layers across many fields, such as landslide hazard zones, can be displayed. Published maps may be copied and adapted provided the source is credited as "(c) Gifu Prefecture".

Read the condition for reuse — crediting the source → clip one map for your own inquiry → always record the source and the date you retrieved it in your report
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MapStatistics
Local GovernmentGISDisasterOpen Data

Gifu Landslide Information Portal

The map view of the landslide information portal published by Gifu Prefecture, where designated landslide hazard zones, special hazard zones, and other risk points can be checked on a map.

Read the definitions that separate a hazard zone from a special hazard zone → find the boundary between the two on the map → reason about the gradient that justifies where the line falls
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MapStatistics
Local GovernmentDisasterGIS

Links to municipal walking courses (Gifu Prefecture)

A page on which the Health Promotion Division of the Gifu Prefectural Government gathers entry points to walking courses created by the prefecture's municipalities — bridging to their courses rather than building its own.

Pick one course from a mountain town and one from a town on the plain → compare the climb per unit distance → write in your own words what makes a town walkable
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MapOverview
Local GovernmentHealth & Sport

Shizuoka GIS — public GIS "Everyone's Hazard Map"

The resident-facing public GIS within Shizuoka Prefecture's integrated geographic information system, which comprises an internal GIS and a public one. In service since 1 April 2011 as "Everyone's Hazard Map", it carries road ledgers, urban planning maps, landslide hazard zone maps and much more, under a policy of opening as much of it as data as possible.

Overlay the road ledger with landslide hazard zones → separate roads usable for evacuation from those that are not → find a settlement with only one way out and write up the problem
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MapStatistics
Local GovernmentGISDisasterOpen Data

Map Aichi (Aichi integrated geographic information system)

An integrated GIS in which Aichi Prefecture places its location-related geographic information on an electronic map for residents and businesses. Layers are grouped under headings such as living and safety, learning and leisure, and prefectural administration, and can be combined freely into your own map. It holds landslide hazard zones, storm-surge inundation projections, tsunami hazard zones, and flood history maps, and also publishes a red relief image map.

Overlay the flood history map with the storm-surge projection → look at where past floods and projected floods diverge → reason about that divergence from the history of how the land was reshaped
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MapStatistics
Local GovernmentGISDisasterDaily Life & Welfare

Map Aichi Open Data Site

A site making the geographic information published on Map Aichi downloadable in machine-readable formats such as GIS-ready zipped shapefiles.

Confirm with data what you noticed on screen → download the shapefile and aggregate it in a GIS → write down where the visual impression and the numbers diverge
High SchoolUniversityResearcher
StatisticsMap
Local GovernmentOpen DataGIS

Mie Prefecture Map Information Service (Mie Click Maps)

A service in which Mie Prefecture publishes location-related information over base maps. GIS was introduced in fiscal 2002, the service has run as Mie Click Maps since fiscal 2013, and it was renewed in fiscal 2019. Multiple maps are available through a map gallery, and open data can be downloaded from the data catalogue. The map information is provided under CC BY 4.0.

Read the CC BY 4.0 terms first → settle on one map you want to use → work out the attribution wording for your own report
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MapStatistics
Local GovernmentGISOpen Data

Mie Historical Highways Walking Maps

Walking maps published by "Mie no Rekishi Kaido", Mie Prefecture's cultural site, carrying course maps for walking the province's historical highways.

Choose one highway course → overlay it on a present-day road map → point out on the map where the old road has disappeared
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Local GovernmentHealth & SportTourismCultural Heritage

Shiga Disaster Information Map

A disaster information map system published by Shiga Prefecture. The system includes a GIS data download page, from which data can be taken out in shapefile format.

Look at the inundation projections around Lake Biwa → check by elevation how the lake, the rivers, and the towns sit relative to each other → write what makes disaster preparedness distinctive in a prefecture with a great lake
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MapStatistics
Local GovernmentDisasterGISOpen Data

Kyoto Prefecture–Municipality Joint Integrated GIS

An integrated GIS in which Kyoto Prefecture and every municipality within it publish their map information together through a single system, in service since 1 February 2008. Alongside shelter, AED, and emergency medical maps, it carries a wide range of location data including World Cultural Heritage sites and bear sightings. On smartphones and tablets, GPS centres the search for facilities on where you stand. Desktop, mobile, and smartphone versions are provided.

Put World Heritage sites and shelters on one screen → think about disaster preparedness where visitors gather → add bear sightings and read the boundary between people and wild land
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MapStatistics
Local GovernmentGISDisasterTourismDaily Life & Welfare

Osaka Prefecture Map Information Service

A system in which Osaka Prefecture publishes urban planning information and cultural property information on a map for the prefecture excluding Osaka City and Sakai City. It is operated as part of the prefecture's project management.

Overlay land-use zoning with cultural property locations → find heritage sites where development pressure is strongest → think through how preservation and use can be reconciled
High SchoolUniversityResearcher
MapStatistics
Local GovernmentGISCultural Heritage

Hyogo Prefecture high-precision 3D geospatial data for the whole prefecture

Hyogo Prefecture was the first in Japan to publish high-precision 3D geospatial data (point clouds) at 1 m mesh covering its entire area, with finer 50 cm mesh data released for mountainous districts.

Open the point cloud for your own town → look for microtopography contour lines cannot show — terraces, scarps, abandoned river channels → put what those shapes are saying into the language of landforms
High SchoolUniversityResearcher
MapStatistics
Local GovernmentGISOpen DataEarth Science

Hyogo Prefecture designated road information (GIS)

Hyogo Prefecture publishes information on road categories under the Building Standards Act and related matters on an online map.

Look up the category of the road in front of your home → read the width and frontage conditions → explain how they decide the size of building permitted
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MapStatisticsLaw & Policy
Local GovernmentGISDaily Life & Welfare

Nara Prefecture Disaster Risk Information System

A system in which Nara Prefecture publishes disaster risk information such as landslide hazard zones on a map (formerly the landslide disaster prevention information system), managed by the erosion control and disaster prevention section of the prefectural land management department.

Overlay landslide hazard zones with settlement locations → connect them to the mountain terrain of Nara → ask why people have gone on living here
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Wakayama Prefecture Geographic Information System

The prefecture's integrated map system publishing the geographic information Wakayama Prefecture holds. It includes 3D point cloud data and a 3D web viewer, and since 1 March 2023 point cloud data from airborne laser surveying covering roughly 65% of the prefecture's area has been released as open data. Layers such as privately owned forest areas can also be viewed.

Look at the shape of the marine terraces in the point cloud → connect it to the uplift of the Kii Peninsula → trace on the map where the same landform continues
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Tottori Geo Map

An inter-municipal integrated GIS launched in 2026 through cooperation between Tottori Prefecture and 13 municipalities within it. It carries data across many fields at once: tourism, events, childcare support, a bear sighting map, cultural properties, disaster preparedness, crime and accidents, public facilities, medical facilities, environment, and forests.

Display the tourism and disaster layers together → check where visitors at a busy spot would evacuate to → write down what is missing from disaster preparedness for people who are only passing through
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Tottori Web Map

A system in which Tottori Prefecture provides regional and administrative information online through maps. Alongside public facilities and municipal offices, hospitals and waste treatment facilities can also be found.

Lay out hospitals and municipal offices side by side → see how their distribution differs between mountains and coast → think about the reach of the facilities that hold daily life together
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Map on Shimane (Shimane integrated GIS)

A web GIS for searching and browsing administrative map information from Shimane Prefecture and its municipalities. Built as the prefecture's integrated GIS, it gathers map information from across the prefectural government — welfare, disaster preparedness, agriculture and forestry — and can display it over base maps or aerial photographs. Residents can also contribute map information of their own. The underlying topographic and road network data is published on Shimane data eye.

Overlay the welfare and disaster layers → look at how elderly care facilities relate to projected inundation → put into words what makes evacuation hard in hilly and mountainous districts
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Okayama Prefecture-wide Integrated GIS

A prefecture-wide integrated GIS built by Okayama Prefecture and in service since April 2002. It publishes disaster information (shelters, suitable helipad sites, rainfall and water-level or tide gauges), seismic intensity maps, liquefaction risk maps, tsunami inundation projections, projected inundation areas, landslide hazard zones, land use, ground data, irrigation ponds, cultural properties, and EV charging facilities. An "Okayama Original Map" feature lets you build your own map over aerial photographs or base maps.

Display the irrigation ponds → overlay liquefaction risk → back up why Okayama has so many ponds with rainfall statistics
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Landslide Portal Hiroshima

A portal run by the Erosion Control Division of the Hiroshima Prefectural Government that provides, on a map, landslide risk locations together with the hazard zones and special hazard zones designated under the Sediment Disaster Prevention Act.

View the hazard zones across the whole prefecture → overlay the distribution of weathered granite (masa soil) → work out why the 2014 and 2018 disasters struck where they did
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Yamaguchi Prefecture Landslide Portal

A portal on which Yamaguchi Prefecture maps the landslide hazard zones and special landslide hazard zones it has designated on the basis of survey. Evacuation sites and facilities used by people needing assistance are shown alongside them.

Count the facilities for people needing assistance that fall inside a hazard zone → think about how long evacuation would take → check on the map where each of them would go
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Yamaguchi Prefecture Civil Engineering Disaster Information System

A system in which Yamaguchi Prefecture provides rainfall, water level, and landslide warning information on a map, together with rain gauges, water-level gauges, dams, simplified water-level gauges, and river surveillance cameras.

Compare rain gauges and water-level gauges on a day of heavy rain → measure how long upstream rain takes to show in downstream levels → learn how fast your own river responds
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Tokushima Prefecture Comprehensive Map Service

The comprehensive portal for maps published by Tokushima Prefecture. It offers a range of maps in one stop and can display several of them stacked together. Locations such as emergency power equipment for use during disasters are included.

Pick two maps to stack → write down one thing that only becomes visible once they overlap → back that observation up with another source
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Kagawa Prefecture public GIS "BRIDGES"

An integrated map system published by Kagawa Prefecture. It offers layers for roads, disaster preparedness (inundation, landslides, seismic intensity maps, liquefaction risk projections), the Embankment Regulation Act, and municipal boundaries, and can use OpenStreetMap as a backdrop.

Overlay the seismic intensity map with liquefaction risk → look into how the ground of the Sanuki Plain was formed → consider how the abundance of irrigation ponds relates to the terrain
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Ehime Urban Planning and Embankment Information Map

A site on which Ehime Prefecture provides information about urban planning and embankment regulation within the prefecture on an accessible online map.

Overlay land-use zones with regulated embankment areas → find slopes where development has advanced → explain why moving earth is regulated at all
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Ehime Sediment Disaster Information Map

An information map on sediment disasters published by the Public Works Department of the Ehime Prefectural Government, letting you check on a map where landslide risk lies.

Display the hazard zones in your town → check whether your route to school passes through one → look on the map for a route that does not
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Kochi Prefecture Disaster Map

The disaster mapping published by Kochi Prefecture. It carries flood and landslide disaster maps, projected inundation areas for designated rivers, landslide hazard and special hazard zones, mountain-disaster risk districts, and designated erosion-control, landslide, and steep-slope areas — along with a three-dimensional hazard map.

View inundation depth in three dimensions on the 3D hazard map → write how the impression differs from the flat map → consider which of the two reaches which audience
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Fukuoka Prefecture Geographic Information Service

A system through which Fukuoka Prefecture presents the varied information it holds on an online map for residents. Two base maps — Google Maps and the national digital base map — can be switched between. Thematic maps include prefectural institutions and prefectural facilities.

Compare the same place on the two base maps → write down the differences in detail and labelling → decide which one to choose for which purpose
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Saga Prefecture Disaster and Emergency Map

A site on which Saga Prefecture publishes its disaster and emergency information online through maps. The prefecture also runs a separate river system, "Suibo-kun", for water-level gauges and advance traffic restrictions.

Look at the inundation projections along the Ariake Sea → overlay the elevation of the reclaimed land → research what it takes to live on ground lower than the sea
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Nagasaki River and Erosion Control Information System (NAKSS)

The river and erosion-control information system run by Nagasaki Prefecture. It provides rainfall, river level, and landslide information, dam data, flood risk distribution maps, and real-time camera images on a map, with a smartphone version also published.

Follow the flood risk distribution during rain → record the order in which the colours change → measure the lag from upstream to downstream yourself
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Kumamoto Data Linkage Platform — Map Dashboard Service

A service launched on 1 April 2024 that brings disaster and tourism information onto a single map. Data held by the prefecture, municipalities, and private operators is displayed together, and it is operated jointly by Kumamoto Prefecture and its municipalities (21 of them in fiscal 2025). It follows the platform standards recommended nationally and exchanges data through APIs.

Stack tourism facilities and disaster information on one map → look for gaps between where travellers move and where they could shelter → write up the strengths and the difficulties of pooling data this way
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Oita Prefecture Landslide Hazard Zone Information Internet Service

A system through which Oita Prefecture publishes online the maps showing the locations of landslide hazard zones and related areas.

Look at the hazard zones around the hot spring districts → research how volcanic landforms relate to geothermal heat → explain how the blessing and the danger come from the same ground
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Hinata GIS (Miyazaki)

Overlay open data on GSI maps, aerial photos, geological maps, and 3D terrain visualizations.

Load the layers you need → read the spatial pattern → explain 'why' with related data
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Kagoshima Prefecture Landslide Hazard Zone Map

A map showing the landslide hazard zones, special hazard zones, and landslide risk locations within Kagoshima Prefecture. The prefecture also publishes rainfall, water level, and weather information, along with the snake-curve diagrams that set the criteria for issuing landslide warnings.

Watch how the hazard zones line up along the edges of the Shirasu plateaux → find out what kind of deposit Shirasu is → explain geologically why the plateau edge is the dangerous part
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Okinawa Prefecture Map Information System

A site on which Okinawa Prefecture publishes regional and administrative information online through maps, covering the locations of administrative institutions, prefectural housing, prefectural urban parks, municipal information, and tsunami inundation projections. GIS data download became available in fiscal 2020, and on 8 March 2023 a policy on using geospatial information within the system was adopted. A prefectural GIS open data catalogue is also provided.

Compare the tsunami inundation projections island by island → overlay the coral reef landforms → work out from the seabed why the projections differ between islands
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