DIG THE LOCAL IN KANSAI is a three-company collaboration project
involving the Kansai Innovation Center, the KANSAI Tourism Bureau, and Stroly Inc.
The project aims to gather tourism information mainly from the 10
prefectures in the Kansai area, and to publish it as a wide-area tourism
map. This will help more people become aware of the attractions in
Kansai and discover the charm of new places.
The illustrated digital maps provide intuitively accessible information
with designs that highlight the unique features of each tourist spot,
allowing you to visually enjoy them. Find your favorite map and explore
the various charms of the Kansai region!

DIG THE LOCAL IN KANSAI

Universal Studios Japan is a must for anyone visiting the Kansai area of Japan (Osaka, Kyoto, Nara, Kobe, etc). The park offers seasonal events (Cool Japan and Halloween Horror Nights), one of the best roller coasters I’ve experienced (The Flying Dinosaur), and don’t forget about The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.

Food plays an important part of your day while you’re bouncing from attraction to attraction. The park has delicious, cute, and downright bizarre food to enjoy. Here’s my list of best snacks at Universal Studios Japan. What’s fantastic is that a lot of these are budget-friendly at a cost under ¥600 ($5 USD).

Best Snacks at Universal Studios Japan (Under $5)

Yōkai (妖怪, ghost, phantom, strange apparition) are a class of supernatural monsters, spirits, and demons in Japanese folklore. The word yōkai is made up of the kanji for "bewitching; attractive; calamity"; and "spectre; apparition; mystery; suspicious".

Kyoto's Yokai Monsters Map by KamogawaYuka

Stroly大阪オフィスまでのアクセスマップです。

〒541-0044　大阪府大阪市中央区伏見町3-6-3
三菱UFJ信託銀行大阪ビル1F・2F
MUIC Kansai

地下鉄御堂筋線「淀屋橋駅」11番出口から徒歩1分

Stroly大阪オフィス

直販用有料ボード

Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan
Osaka Healthcare Pavilion - Reborn Challenge
Exhibition from July 22nd to 28th, 2025

A Testing Ground for New Tourism Ventures : Revitalizing Kansai through the Tourism Industry

Set off on a journey of discovery with an illustrated digital map that reveals Osaka’s hidden charms!

The "Panoramic Map of Osaka City" is a bird's-eye view illustration published in 1924. It depicts the urban area of Osaka at the time from a perspective looking northeast from above Osaka Bay in the southwest. The intricate network of moats and canals, along with the town layout of the water city Osaka, is rendered in detail, vividly recording the scene on the eve of the "Great Osaka" era, featuring both the old cityscape from the Edo period and modern architecture. At the Osaka Museum of Housing and Living, visitors can experience this map enlarged approximately seven times as an illuminated floor display, allowing them to visually enjoy the city's historical transformation.

Printed on December 28, 1923 (Taishō 12), published on January 5, 1924 (Taishō 13).

大阪市パノラマ地圖 THE MOCK PAINTED PICTURE OF THE GREAT OSAKA

Osaka, The mock painted picture of the great Osaka (1924)

Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan
Osaka Healthcare Pavilion - Reborn Challenge
Exhibition from July 22nd to 28th, 2025

A Testing Ground for New Tourism Ventures : Revitalizing Kansai through the Tourism Industry

Set off on a journey of discovery with an illustrated digital map that reveals Osaka’s hidden charms!

"Naniwa Meisho Hitori Annai" is an old map of Osaka published during the Tenpō era of the Edo period, in the year 1830. It depicts in detail the famous sites and town divisions of the time. By comparing it with a modern panoramic map of Osaka City, one can learn about the transitions from the Edo period to the Taishō period and up to the present day.

Naniwa meisho hitori annai （1830）

Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan
Osaka Healthcare Pavilion - Reborn Challenge
Exhibition from July 22nd to 28th, 2025

A Testing Ground for New Tourism Ventures : Revitalizing Kansai through the Tourism Industry

Set off on a journey of discovery with an illustrated digital map that reveals Osaka’s hidden charms!

Bite into Osaka!
Osaka is a treasure trove of laughter and food!
Takoyaki and okonomiyaki add color to the street corners, while lively shopping arcades and warm-hearted culture make the city charming.
A fusion of tradition and modern culture, Osaka is full of delightful discoveries every day.
Come and feel the vibrant energy of Osaka!

Bite into Osaka (Culture)

Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan
Osaka Healthcare Pavilion - Reborn Challenge
Exhibition from July 22nd to 28th, 2025

A Testing Ground for New Tourism Ventures : Revitalizing Kansai through the Tourism Industry

Set off on a journey of discovery with an illustrated digital map that reveals Osaka’s hidden charms!

Dive into Water City
Osaka is also known as the "City of Bridges."
With this map, you can trace the remnants of vanished rivers and old bridges by overlaying past and present maps.
As you walk through the city, you'll be excited to find bridge names lingering in unexpected places.
Enjoy discovering the stories of Osaka's waterways and bridges as you explore the city on foot!

Dive into Osaka（Water City）

Spaceport Map Remix：SPACE AND OUTER SPACE

2015年8月にインドを旅行しました。隣のバングラデシュからインドに入り、合わせて一ヶ月近くかけた旅行でした。新型コロナの影響で旅をすることが難しくなっている今、個人的にも思い出の多い旅の記録を、イラストマップという形でまとめてみました。

リリースノート
2020/07/01：地図のみリリース
2020/07/10：スポット情報（写真と文章）の追加

Road to India Map

Map of China. Compiled by John A. Diakoff, scientific colaborator of the former Russian Oriantalist's Society ; Drawn by Mr. G. Primakoff. Engraved by Mr. P. Sergeeff. Approved by: Department of Education of the Three Eastern Provinces, Institute of Oriental and Commercial Sciences and Pedagogical Institute, Harbin. Recommended for use in Middle and High Schools. Published by Northern Trading Co., Ltd. & Mr. V.F. Yan-hsiun. Printed by the Lithography of the "Northern Trading Co., Ltd. Harbin. 1931. (insets) January Isotherms. (with) July Isotherms.

Map of China. Compiled by John A. Diakoff

China

The Chinese Empire and Japan

Chinese Empire and Japan, 1882

Relief shown by hachures.
Scale 1: 8,997,000

Rand, McNally & Co.'s China. Chinese Empire with Japan and Korea

East Asia (1903)

Planned American Flight to the Moon

Planned American Flight to the Moon, 1969

This map won't save our elephants, but it will help. Here’s to a unique insight into an elephant's world, our interconnectedness, new ways of creating hope and getting restless about protecting what we love.
With every map purchased, The Elephant Map Project will donate 100% of their net profits to The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust on their 40th anniversary.
You can purchase the map at the following link: https://www.elephantmap.com/shop

The Elephant Map

Editor: Chandler B. Beach (1839-1928), A.M. Associate Editor Frank Morton McMurry (1862-1936), Ph.D. Publisher:F.E. Compton and Company. 
Subtitle: for teachers, students and families 
Place of publication: Chicago

The New Student's Reference Work

Asia (1914)

Due to the influence of COVID-19, people had no choice but staying home and avoid unnecessarily travels. The first impact hit the cultural aspect of our lives. In Japan, the declaration of emergency has been lifted, and gradually some museums are reopened, but it is not still the same as before the pandemic.
This map supports your cultural activities by taking you museums in Japan and worldwide!

Museum Hopping Map

A very interesting 1853 (Kaei 6) Japanese world map by Suido Nakajima. Presented on a cylindrical projection, this map marks a significant advancement in Japanese globular cartography and a far more sophisticated adaptation of western cartographic standards than is evidenced in most earlier Japanese world maps. No longer reliant on 17th century Dutch maps acquired via the Dutch East India Company’s (VOC) trade concession in Nagasaki, the Japanese have here abandoned many of the antiquated cartographic notions, such as an insular California, which were common in Japanese maps of the previous decade. Japanese cartographers may have been motivated to update their traditional world view in the light of the explosion of cartographic ideas associated with the arrival in Edo Harbor of the American Commodore Matthew Perry in the same year this map was published. As a whole this map offers a sophisticated cartographic presentation of the world embracing the most up to date cartographic knowledge available in the mid-19th century. Though adapted to the Japanese printing style, this map presents a generally accurate world view. British Claims to Washington and British Columbia are noted in North America, Australia and the Pacific are accurately rendered, as are the discoveries of Vitus Bering and James Cook in the Arctic, and Africa is clearly pre-Speke. The disputed East Sea / Sea of Japan / Sea of Korea is here labeled as the Sea of Joseon (Korea), which some scholars suggests indicates Japanese acceptance of the “Sea of Korea” convention. Four hemispheres appear in the lower left quadrant, from left, the southern, northern, eastern, and western. All are on a stereographic projection. The map is printed on woodblock and hand colored in vivid, blues, greens, oranges, and yellows. A fine example of the redefined Japanese cartography style of the later Tokugawa period.

Japanese Map of the World

Pictorial view of the world. Originally issued uncolored, color was added later. Map is projected as a view from space and details the world roughly from the Equator to the North Pole and from California to India. Flora, fauna, historic events, cultural artifacts, and indigenous people are represented pictorially. The Sargasso Sea is illustrated in the middle of the Atlantic. Includes inset views illustrate places and moments of special interest including mirages in the Pacific, a ship burning at sea, Niagara Falls, Chicago, oil wells, gold mining, Hindu cremation, Chinese Junks, Tuareg warriors, an avalanche, etc. also includes lists of the nations and maritime flags. Shows sketches of some 79 individuals in 'traditional costumes'. To either side of the main view are flags of major nations, sailing ships, volcanoes, and other imagery. Include an ice free polar sea north of Greenland labeled 'Mer Libre?' No doubt this is a nod to hopes that a Northwest Passage might still exist. Union Pacific and Trans-Atlantic shipping lanes are noted. The achievements of various explorers are noted in both Africa and the Arctic.

Le Tour du Monde en un Clin d'Oeil

Around the World in the Blink of an Eye, 1876

Relief shown by hachures. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Gift; Don Homuth; September 2011. Accompanied by envelope containing illustrations, CD-ROM of Ferguson family gravesite, transcriptions of Orlando Ferguson's obituaries, and photocopy and CD-ROM of "The globe theory of the earth refuted". Fold-lined. Conserved.

Map of the square and stationary earth : four hundred passages in the Bible that condemn the Globe Theory, or the Flying Earth, and none sustain it ; this map is the Bible map of the world

Square and Stationary Earth (1893)

World Map of Fake News - locations of where fake news has been reported

World Map of Fake News

Engraved pictorial map. Includes inset of Australia and surroundings.

Chart of the principal animals of the World in their respective regions. By W.C. Woodbridge. Entered ... 1831, by William C. Woodbridge ... Connecticut. (1837?)

Animals - World (1837)

Color pictorial map of the world, on sheet 87.5x114. Stereographic projection. Includes legend, text boxes on historical events, and note at the head of the map "La charte de l'Atlantique" with the signatures of Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, The Atlantic Charter was a pivotal policy statement issued in August 14, 1941 that, early in World War II, defined the Allied goals for the post-war world. It was drafted by the leaders of Britain and the United States, and later agreed to by all the Allies. Map shows political boundaries, major cities, vignettes representing various agricultural products, industry and mineral resources. Includes compass rose, distances, naval and air bases. This French edition is rare.

Carte de la charte de l'Atlantique

Map of the Atlantic Charter (French), 1943

Hand colored outline pictorial map of the world on Mercator projections. Relief shown pictorially. Showing sun and moon in left and center of map, Compass rose on lower center. Statistical tables above and bottom of the map. Title provided by cataloger.
Copyright, 1932. by Hendrik Willem Van Loom. "This map of the world is drawn according to the projection of Gerard Kremer of Gerardus Mercator, by his good neighbor. Thanks, Hendrik Van Loom".