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Municipal maps

All 20 designated cities and all 23 Tokyo wards, plus notable examples from other municipalities — starting inquiry from the map of your own town.

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Sapporo City Map Information Service

The city's map service bringing together urban planning, roads, disaster information (shelters and evacuation areas), outdoor advertising, and district plans. It merged the previously separate urban planning service and the city disaster map, relaunching on 29 June 2018.

Overlay evacuation areas with district plans → consider how the grid street layout helps evacuation → then think again for the snow season
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Hanamaki Digital Map (Hanamaki City public GIS)

A portal through which Hanamaki City publishes urban planning, roads, sewerage, hazard maps, public facilities, and the locations of childcare support facilities online.

Look at how the childcare support facilities are spread → set that against the size of the municipality → consider what "nearby" means in a merged city
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Sendai Living Map

A site on which Sendai City provides facility information and disaster-related information on an electronic map. The city separately publishes an urban planning information service, and releases its land-number maps as open data in shapefile format.

Overlay the tsunami inundation projection with facilities → check whether any moved after the 2011 disaster → trace on the map where the town itself shifted
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Koriyama City Digital Tourism Map

A digital tourism map created by Koriyama City, built around high-quality 360-degree panoramic footage and video shot by drone so that the feel of each place comes through.

Watch the aerial footage to see how Lake Inawashiro and the Asaka Canal relate → trace on the map where the water was drawn from and to → connect it to the history of land reclamation
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Saitama City Map Information

A service on which Saitama City publishes public facilities, daily life, urban planning, and landslide hazard maps. Past flood history can also be checked by clicking on the map.

Overlay flood history with today's housing land → find the low ground that was filled in → check whether the place names still carry a trace of it
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Chiba City Map (integrated GIS)

Chiba City's integrated GIS for publishing administrative map information accessibly. The city separately runs a map information system, in service since 1 April 2018, publishing road categories under the Building Standards Act, the certified road network, residence promotion areas under the location optimisation plan, regulated housing-development areas, and public control points.

Overlay the residence promotion areas with disaster risk → see whether where people are encouraged to live overlaps with where it is dangerous → think about how a city shrinks
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Chiyoda City Urban Planning Information Portal

A portal providing the urban planning that concerns Chiyoda City on an online map. The whole ward can be shown at once, or the display switched layer by layer. Since December 2025 it has also published GIS-based road ledger plans.

Look at the land-use zoning around the Imperial Palace → find where the height limits change → explain the shape of a city with an empty centre
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Chuo City Urban Planning Information Viewing System

A system letting users search Chuo City's urban planning information such as land-use zoning. Land boundary maps, road ledger plans, public control points, and cadastral survey histories can also be checked.

Look at the zoning of Ginza and Nihonbashi → search for surviving traces of the Edo street grid → confirm by overlaying an old map
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Minato City Urban Planning Information Service

A service providing Minato City's urban planning information on a map. Clicking a point brings up its details, including land readjustment and urban redevelopment projects. The ward separately gathers barrier-free and hazard maps under a "find by map" page.

Display the extent of a redevelopment project → compare aerial photographs from before and after → consider how fast a district can be replaced
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Shinjuku City Minna no GIS

A system on which Shinjuku City publishes layers such as road ledger plans, urban planning information including land-use zoning, and townscape planning information. It is viewable from smartphones and mobile phones too.

Display the townscape planning information → see how the rules differ between the high-rise district and the residential streets → put the gap within one ward into words
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Bunkyo City Urban Planning Map Search System

Bunkyo City's search system for urban planning information, with topographic maps, road network maps, and railway network maps, viewable from smartphones and mobile phones.

Locate the slopes on Bunkyo's topographic map → draw the line where plateau meets valley → look into what the names of the slopes are telling you
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Taito Map

The system through which Taito City publishes urban planning and other information on an online map. It covers ward facilities and parks, urban planning information such as land-use zoning, floor-area ratios and height districts, road administrators, route numbers and certified road widths, road categories under the Building Standards Act, and the AEDs available to the public within the ward.

Look at the zoning of Ueno and Asakusa → read how the temples and the entertainment districts sit in relation to each other → consider how a temple town became a city
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Sumida Machizukuri Map

Sumida City's map providing urban planning and road information through GIS. The ward also publishes GIS data in shapefile format for urban planning such as zoning, development permission areas, landscape planning zones, ward housing, designated road maps, flood history for roads and parks, and buried cultural property information.

Look at the flood history data → read the shape of the lowland between the Sumida and Ara rivers → confirm by elevation where the water gathers
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Koto Map (Koto City public GIS)

The public GIS through which Koto City publishes the ward's map information online.

Confirm by elevation how far the below-sea-level zone extends → read the shapes of the canals and reclaimed land → look for the devices that make living with water possible
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Shinagawa MAP (integrated map information service)

A service on which Shinagawa City publishes administrative and regulatory information online through maps and imagery, relaunched on 20 January 2021. Address search brings up information for a given plot at once, and zoning designation maps and road ledger plans are available. It can also generate your own guide map.

Compare zoning on the bay side and inland → trace the course of the old Tokaido → check where the traces of the post town survive
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Meguro Map Information Service

Meguro City's published map information service, spanning many themes: district maps, designated road maps, current-condition road ledger plans, development permission areas, landscape formation standards, locations where narrow-road widening has been completed, barrier-free maps, and urban planning facility maps. It works from desktop and smartphone alike.

Look at where narrow-road widening has been completed → compare with where it has not → consider how many decades it takes for a street to widen
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Machi Map Ota

The system through which Ota City publishes administrative information on an online map. Urban planning information such as land-use zoning and map information on road categories under the Building Standards Act are available, with desktop and dedicated smartphone versions.

Look at the zoning around Haneda → measure the distance between the airport and housing → research how noise and land use relate
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Setagaya iMap (electronic map information service)

A service in which Setagaya City uses GIS to present public facilities, urban planning information, and sightseeing spots on an electronic map, adapting its display for smartphones and tablets. The ward separately publishes over thirty GIS datasets as open data — public facilities, AEDs, cultural properties and more — downloadable as Esri Shapefile, CSV, or KML, with GeoJSON and REST APIs.

Download the cultural property data and map it → check whether the sites line up along the Kokubunji scarp → consider how the springs there shaped where people lived
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Shibuya City Map Information System

The system through which Shibuya City publishes administrative information on an online map. Alongside urban planning information in GIS form, it publishes road ledger plans, ward passage plans, route maps, land boundary determinations, and road area confirmations. The ward also advances open data publication through SHIBUYA OPEN DATA.

View the terrain around Shibuya Station by elevation → confirm that the station sits at the bottom of a valley → work out where the water goes in heavy rain
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Nakano Data Map (Nakano City public GIS)

A site on which Nakano City publishes administrative and community information accessibly on maps — road categories under the Building Standards Act, parks, public toilets, cycling, published land prices, urban planning and more. The map information is free to download and use as open data.

Overlay the published land price map with distance from the station → form a hypothesis about what sets the price → test it by adding land-use zoning
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Suginavi (Suginami City official electronic map service)

The electronic map service Suginami City officially operates, handling digital map data and ground elevation survey data. The ward has run both an internal integrated GIS and a public GIS for residents; from fiscal 2026 it begins operating a single unified GIS combining the two.

Look at the ground elevation data → find the low ground along the Zenpukuji and Myoshoji rivers → check it against the record of past floods
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Toshima City Map Information System

The system through which Toshima City lets users check the ward's varied information on a map using GIS — public facilities, childcare facilities, nearby play areas, parks, emergency medical institutions, community cat activity, and ground survey data such as borehole logs. The ward's use of GIS has been recognised as a leading example of statistical utilisation.

Overlay childcare facilities with play areas → draw a circle for how far a child can walk → consider what families outside that circle need
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Kita City Map (detailed edition)

The system through which Kita City of Tokyo provides the ward's map information online. The ward separately publishes land-use zoning search and urban planning maps on the web.

Look at the shape of the lowland between the Ara and Sumida rivers → colour it by elevation → confirm what the levees are protecting
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Arakawa City Map Information

The system through which Arakawa City publishes regional and administrative information on an online map. The ward also issues "Guide Map Arakawa", marking public facilities and government offices on a 1:8,000 map alongside the ward's history, outline, and transport routes.

Find on the map where the small factories cluster → overlay the rivers and railways → consider why a town of makers grew up here
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Doko-Navi Itabashi

A system letting users find facility locations on an electronic map in Itabashi City. Clicking an icon brings up the facility's information and a link to its website. Part of what is published here is also offered as open data in CSV form.

View the distribution of facilities by type → look for what is missing far from the stations → check by overlaying the bus routes
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Itabashi Town-Walking Maps

Walking maps compiled by Itabashi City from a cultural and tourism perspective. The ward also issues a tourism guide map.

Choose a course through what was a post town on the Nakasendo → see on the map where today's street diverges from the old highway → photograph the traces that remain
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Nerimap Map Information

The system through which Nerima City publishes information useful in daily life — ward facilities, roads, parks — on a map. Categories span ward offices, health and welfare, hospitals and AEDs, environment and cleaning, transport, disaster preparedness, children, schools, culture and learning, community, parks and sports, farm plots, urban planning, road networks, and landscape zones. It was relaunched on 3 December 2024 with a new URL.

Display the farm plot layer → find where fields survive among the housing → research why urban agriculture held on in Nerima
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Adachi Map Information Service

A service on which Adachi City publishes administrative and regulatory information online using maps and imagery, managed and operated by the ward's information systems division.

Look at the shape of the land between the Ara, Naka, and Ayase rivers → colour it by elevation → put into words what makes disaster preparedness hard in a ward ringed by rivers
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Katsushika Electronic Map

A service through which Katsushika City provides online the ward map information it has built with its GIS. Land-use zoning, building coverage ratios, and floor-area ratios can be looked up.

Look at the distribution of coverage and floor-area ratios → compare older and newer residential districts → explain what sets the density of a neighbourhood
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Edogawa Map

A service through which Edogawa City provides the ward's map information online, usable from smartphones. The ward separately runs a designated road information service for urban planning and the Building Standards Act, and publishes map data as open data.

Confirm by elevation that most of the ward lies below sea level → research the thinking behind its wide-area evacuation policy → measure the distance to where residents would go
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Yokohama City Administrative Map Information Service (i-Mappy)

The collective name for five systems through which Yokohama City publishes regional and administrative information on maps. The core system, i-Mappy, publishes urban planning decisions such as land-use zoning together with restrictions under the Building Standards Act. Study began in fiscal 2000, publication followed in fiscal 2002, and coverage has expanded since.

Overlay land-use zoning with the hill terrain → look at how Yokohama's yato valleys are used → explain land use in a city built on slopes
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Guide Map Kawasaki

Kawasaki City's public GIS for residents, presenting public facilities, tourism, welfare, and disaster information accessibly on maps. Layers include land-use zoning and regulations, flood hazard maps, road and waterway ledgers, public control point networks, and a geological map collection.

Open the geological maps → read the landforms the Tama River built → explain from terrain and history why the industrial belt lines the river mouth
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Sagamihara Map Information (public web GIS)

Sagamihara City's public GIS for viewing and printing the city's map information online. Urban planning information such as land-use zones and planned urban roads can be checked from the urban planning designation maps, and several layers can be printed together.

Compare land-use zoning in the built-up area and in the mountain districts → consider what it means for a designated city to contain mountains → look for where the administrative lines and the terrain lines diverge
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Yokohama City Walking Maps (Health and Social Welfare Bureau)

Walking course maps compiled by the Health and Social Welfare Bureau of Yokohama City, ranging in character from a route along the old Tokaido to forest trails and waterside walks.

Choose the old Tokaido route → compare its course with today's National Route 1 → find on the map where the highway was rerouted
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Niigata e-Map (Niigata City map information service)

A GIS Niigata City publishes for residents, visitors, and businesses. Public facilities, disaster information, roadside land values, and urban planning can be checked on the map, with search by address or facility name and measurement of distance and area. The city offers its GIS data as open data under CC BY 2.1 Japan and publishes 1:2,500 topographic map data.

Look at elevation around the Shinano and Agano rivers → find the below-sea-level zones on the map → connect them to where the drainage pumping stations stand
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Matsumoto Digital Map (Matsumoto City public GIS)

Matsumoto City's public GIS. GPS on a smartphone or tablet brings up the map around where you stand, with facility and route search nearby. The city separately produces walking maps for 35 districts under its "citizens walking" campaign, noting local features such as wells, wayside shrines, and historic sites.

Display what is within walking distance of where you stand → overlay the wells and wayside shrines → consider how springs and the paths people take relate
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Shizu Map (Shizuoka City geographic information system)

An integrated GIS gathering the geographic information Shizuoka City holds — locations of public facilities, designated urban planning and disaster areas, and tourism and welfare facilities. It carries twenty categories including public facility locations, hazard maps, and neighbourhood association areas. Published on 31 January 2025, its geographic information is offered as open data usable without formality.

Display the neighbourhood association areas → overlay the hazard map → work out district by district who would call on whom
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Hamamatsu City Map Information Site

The map site through which Hamamatsu City publishes its urban planning map, road maps (route certification, current-condition plans, designated roads), and land-number maps. Water and sewer pipe information has since been added.

Look at how far the water and sewer networks reach → find where the built-up edge stops → consider the problems of a very large merged municipality
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Nagoya City Urban Planning Information Service

Nagoya City's GIS publishing urban planning information online through maps and imagery. Alongside land-use zones, height control districts, and fire-prevention districts, it carries urban planning base maps, photo maps, aerial photographs from 1955 to 2005, and earthquake risk assessment maps.

Compare the 1955 and 2005 aerial photographs of the same place → read how the built-up area spread after the war → find the traces of land readjustment on the map
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Kyoto City Map Information Service

A service letting users view and print urban planning and townscape information for Kyoto City on a map. It entered service on 18 March 2026, taking over from the city's former urban planning information search portal.

Display the townscape layer → see where the rules on height and colour change → explain what it takes to protect a view
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Map Navi Osaka

Osaka City's map information site, providing the city's map information — urban planning among it — online.

Overlay land-use zoning with the traces of canals and moats → find what the "city of water" has filled in → gather the clues still left in place names
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Sakai City e-Atlas

A site on which Sakai City publishes regional and administrative information online through maps. The city also releases map data at information level 2500 as the product of public surveying under the Survey Act.

Locate the Mozu Tumulus Cluster on the map → overlay the surrounding land use → consider what it means for a World Heritage site and a city to sit side by side
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Kobe City Information Map

The system through which Kobe City publishes its administrative information on maps, covering evacuation sites, hazard maps, AEDs, gathering places for older residents, and elementary school districts. Urban planning information such as land-use zones and planned roads and parks can also be searched here.

Overlay elementary school districts with gathering places for older residents → measure whether they are within walking distance → rethink what walkable means in a city of slopes
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Okayama City Map Information

Okayama City's guide to the map information it publishes online, from which the city's maps — urban planning among them — can be reached.

Find the boundary between the built-up area and the reclaimed land → research the history of filling in Kojima Bay → write how it relates to land use today
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Hiroshima Map Navi (Hiroshima City integrated GIS)

The integrated GIS Hiroshima City introduced for residents, letting them obtain public facility, urban planning, and disaster information efficiently online. It has been in service since 1 October 2012.

View the built-up area spread across the delta → overlay the distributaries of the Ota River with the town's growth → explain the shape of a city the river made
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G-motty (regional map information portal for the Kitakyushu area)

A regional information portal built on a GIS created jointly by five local governments — Kitakyushu, Nogata, Yukuhashi, Kawara, and Kanda. It went live on 22 October 2013, and Kurate joined in fiscal 2016, bringing the total to six. Since fiscal 2019, base maps, topographic maps, and urban planning summary maps have been provided free of charge.

View the same layer across municipal boundaries → check whether the level of detail changes from one to the next → write down what is gained by doing this jointly
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Fukuoka City Web Map

The map site through which Fukuoka City publishes its map information online.

Find on the map the old boundary between Hakata and Fukuoka the castle town → overlay the Naka River → research why one city came to have two centres
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Isahaya Digital Map (map information service)

A service letting users view Isahaya City's administrative information such as road ledger maps, together with public facilities, on a map. Topographic maps, Google Maps, or aerial photographs can be chosen as the backdrop.

Look at the shape of the Isahaya Bay reclamation in aerial photographs → find the pre-reclamation shoreline on an old map → confirm by area how much land was added
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Kumamoto City Map Information Service

A service letting users view Kumamoto City's administrative information — urban planning maps, route network maps and the like — along with public facilities on a map. Topographic maps, Google Maps, and aerial photographs can be chosen as the backdrop, and Street View is available.

Look at the terrain around Kumamoto Castle in aerial photographs → overlay where the 2016 earthquake did most damage → consider how the ground and the damage relate
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