Cartography is the love for art and geometry. My mission is to make Swiss 🇨🇭 cartography known in Japan 🇯🇵 and to create new map series for Japan.
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The Hokkaido Cartographer retweeted
‘No-Go’ Status Lifted for Trail with View of Gunma Prefecture Crater Lake, Allowing Visitors to Return for 1st Time Since 2018 japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/feat…
The Hokkaido Cartographer retweeted
Planning your autumn hikes? All 100 Hyakumeizan on one A3 sheet.
Front: a periodic table of peaks.
Back: what it takes to hike each one from Tokyo – day trip, weekend or expedition.
500 yen on Ko-fi
ridgelineimages.com/musings/…
#Hyakumeizan
The Hokkaido Cartographer retweeted
Activity on Japan's 100 Famous Mountains is changing. soranews24.com/2026/08/25/da…
The Hokkaido Cartographer retweeted
Could you open a mountain hut in the Japanese Alps today? Turns out it’s not as simple as finding a nice patch of mountainside and putting up a building.
Who owns the land? How did the existing huts get there? What happens when one closes for good?
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The Hokkaido Cartographer retweeted
It's multi-day hikes like the Panorama Ginza Traverse that keep me coming back. In fine weather, there's nothing quite like traversing the Jonen Mountains with uninterrupted views across the Azusa Valley to Yarigatake and the magnificent Hotaka Range.
ridgelineimages.com/hiking/n…
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Sharing it again, because I think it's important. Mt. Apoi UNESCO Global Geopark needs your help to meet their funding needs for this year's projects. Please consider supporting them if you are able! You can donate from overseas with a credit card.
readyfor.jp/projects/apoi302…
The Hokkaido Cartographer retweeted
アポイ岳GP クラファン開始📢
北海道の #アポイ岳ジオパーク が、持続可能な活動と様似町の未来、子どもたちのためにクラウドファンディングに挑戦しています。
活動継続には、皆様の応援が必要です！ぜひ、プロジェクトページをご覧ください。
👉 readyfor.jp/projects/apoi302
#READYFOR #応援よろしく
ALT アポイ岳ジオパークのクラウドファンディング告知ポスター。 上部には緑豊かなアポイ岳と青空の写真とともに「アポイ岳ジオパークの未来をみんなでつくる クラウドファンディング Start!」というタイトルが書かれています。中央には高山植物（アポイアズマギクやヒダカソウなど）や蝶（ヒメチャマダセセリ）の丸い写真が並び、「アポイ岳ジオパークを、もっと豊かに、もっと身近に。」というメッセージと応援を呼びかけるテキストが掲載されています。下部にはREADYFORのクラウドファンディングURL（https://readyfor.jp/projects/apoi302）と検索バー、二次元コードが表示されています。
The Hokkaido Cartographer retweeted
Some controversy on JP X re YAMAP, the premier JP hiking app, to ban the upload of out of season climbs on Mt Fuji, despite them being legal with the submission of a climbing plan. Lots of pissed off Japanese users threatening to cancel their subscriptions!
The Hokkaido Cartographer retweeted
The Japan Hiking Field Guide – 160+ hiking terms, phrases & glossaries in kanji and rōmaji, plus checklists, bear awareness, emergency contacts, and more. Folds to A7 pocket size. Built in Illustrator. No AI.
Available via Ko-fi from ¥300 👉 ridgelineimages.com/musings/…
The Hokkaido Cartographer retweeted
Things aren't looking good for Japan's izakaya dining scene. soranews24.com/2026/05/21/ja…
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For something a little different, the ryokan I work for in south Osaka will be putting on a Kyogen comedic play on June 20th
Seats are JPY 12,000 per person and include a seasonal kaiseki lunch
It will be in Japanese but I've found Kyogen enjoyable even with my limited ability!
The Hokkaido Cartographer retweeted
The 2024 earthquake in Noto Peninsula was a blow to the area’s centuries’ old craft of Wajima lacquerware. A Kanazawa restaurant is promoting the lacquerware’s practical beauty by centering it in the meals it offers to diners.
nippon.com/en/japan-topics/g…
The Hokkaido Cartographer retweeted
Enoshima Electric Railway Co. has started service of its first new model of train in 20 years. The seating arrangements have been designed to maximize the number of passengers and their views of the Shonan coast
japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/feat…
The Hokkaido Cartographer retweeted
上士幌町 “幻の橋”タウシュベツ川橋梁一部崩落 地震影響か（NHK）
news.web.nhk/newsweb/na/nb-7…
「壊れゆく橋ではあるが、この風景をいつまでも見せてほしい」
…補強が検討されたこともあるそうですけどね
The Hokkaido Cartographer retweeted
Can someone point me to Japanese cartography twitter? Anyone making beautiful maps over there? @JapanMapping ?
日本の地図作成（カートグラフィー）関連のTwitterアカウントをご存知の方はいらっしゃいませんか？あちらで美しい地図を作っている方はいますか？
The Hokkaido Cartographer retweeted
JR East has started operating a freight-only Shinkansen bullet train, transporting goods from Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, to Tokyo. 👉 ebx.sh/i6qwjJ
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Back to the top of Nagaretani where the Kawazu-zakura and Sansho are both in bloom
In the woods above is a small Fudo-Myo, an early location for a Shugendo pilgrimage point that was destroyed some time after 1683
I then visited the new pilgrimage point established in the 1970s
