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The maps are usually labeled in local language unless it is a major place or attraction/major company/or someone has taken the time to add a translation. Otherwise local places/offices etc are often labeled in Japanese (so are signs in the real location etc). Googlemaps maynot be the best if you are looking for a list of restaurants in English.
1 year ago. Google maps cannot be downloaded outside of Japan. The reason for not being able to download offline maps of Japan on Google Maps is because Zenrin Co. (a Japanese mapping company) own the rights to the entire Japan cartographic area, and unlike most other countries, won't give it up to Google Maps for offline use.
6 years ago. Save. I have a hard time using Google map in Japanespecially pointing by direction East, West, North and South. I don't know which direction I am. This makes me walking out of blue dotted line and blue arrow is not pointing on the dotted blue line. Google map can't provide street name.I just end up asking the stranger.
Google Maps is available as a mobile app for the Android and iOS mobile operating systems. The first mobile version of Google Maps (then known as Google Local for Mobile) was launched in beta in November 2005 for mobile platforms supporting J2ME. [184] [185] [186] It was released as Google Maps for Mobile in 2006. [187]
Zenrin Co. Ltd. (Japanese: 株式会社ゼンリン, Hepburn: Kabushiki-gaisha Zenrin) is a Japanese map publishing company. Founded in 1948 as the Tourism and Culture Advertising Company (観光文化宣伝社, Kankō Bunka Sendensha) in Beppu, Kyūshū, the company is known as a maker of residential maps and software used in personal computers and automotive navigation systems.
Japanese map symbols; List of symbols (in Japanese) (Translate to English: Google, Bing, Yandex); Children's list from the GSI (in Japanese) (Translate to English: Google, Bing, Yandex) This is a very good reference, it has separate links for each symbol.
I've never used Navitime. I always use Google Map, although in Japanese. I assume that Google Maps can locate most well-known sites listed in guidebooks perfectly in Kyoto; as for individual shops and restaurants, if searched in English, it might have errors sometimes. Edited: 9 years ago. Report inappropriate content.
The Meiji government originally classified Hokkaidō as a "Settlement Envoyship"(開拓使, kaitakushi), and later divided the island into three prefectures (Sapporo, Hakodate, and Nemuro). These were consolidated into a single Hokkaido Department(北海道庁, Hokkaido-chō)in 1886, at prefectural level but organized more along the lines of a ...