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On my recent first trip to Japan, I couldn't believe the number and quality of 7-Elevens/Family Marts/Lawsons. You're never more than a five-minute walk from one in Tokyo, and they've got good stuff.
I can’t quite use this one as the radius for every store seems to be a bit large.
For the todōfuken I would leave out the suffixes (mostly 'ken') in the English labels, except for Hokkaidō obviously.
This is cool. One of the things I miss most after my trip to Japan is 7-Eleven/FamilyMart. So many nice snacks and drinks, and you never need to walk more than two minutes to find a store. I liked the onigiri a lot.
I need to see if I can modify this to finally make my ‘inaka or not’ map by determining the distance to the closest combini. I can’t quite use this one as the radius for every store seems to be a bit large.
I need to see if I can modify this to finally make my ‘inaka or not’ map by determining the distance to the closest combini. I can’t quite use this one as the radius for every store seems to be a bit large.
What is "inaka or not"? A google search just pulls up an athletic clothing brand.
At first I struggled to make sense of the numbers in the circles. Surely there can't be 10,110 locations in a space the size of the SF Bay area? But yes, yes there are...
In America and Europe, restaurants and shops are basically all zoned to be on the ground floor, with residential or office units above. This gives the density a different feeling, because commercial/dining space extends upward.
One suggestion.
When zooming in, eventually the stores turn into a uniform blue dot. A light blue icon.
I'd like to see the individual icons keep the color of the convenience store when zoomed in.
Know the map color changes, but it isn't as obvious as the icon.
There is bit of a disjoint in how my eye is tracking the colors where some icons are still a color of the store, but some have turned blue.
At first I struggled to make sense of the numbers in the circles. Surely there can't be 10,110 locations in a space the size of the SF Bay area? But yes, yes there are...
One thing that struck me when visiting Tokyo (as an American living in San Francisco), was that it was not uncommon to go to a restaurant or bar on, say the 3rd or 4th floor of a building. In America and Europe, restaurants and shops are basically all zoned to be on the ground floor, with residential or office units above. This gives the density a different feeling, because commercial/dining space extends upward.