One of my favorite hobbies is traveling around Japan. I love discovering and learning about new and interesting places and their history. I have lived here for over 12 years now, but it's been almost 19 years since I first came here and became inspired to explore, take photos, and research.
Recently, I have been going through a lot of old unsorted, unprocessed photos and unfinished posts of travels. With nearly 200 posts talking about Japanese travel and locations, I wanted to see all these locations on a map. Through doing research about some locations, I found an open source JavaScript mapping library called Leaflet, and I've added a page with all these links pinned on a map.
Use the following link to view the Japan Travel Map page.
The Travel Page is a little bit of a work-in-progress at the moment, so the styles and features may be updated or changed in the future.
I learned about Leaflet from visiting Haikyo.info. This site is a collection of abandoned places around Japan and whether or not its possible to trespass and explore. I came across the site when trying to find information about the Red Factory, an old abandoned factory which was highly rated among ruins explorers.
Leaflet has been super easy to use. Going through their Tutorials, their quick start guide puts a map on a webpage almost immediately. Plotting points is incredibly simple, too, once you get the geo coordinates. It gets a little more complicated when you want to use layers to filter certain points on the map, but it was really just an extra step. You can take a look at the code, but there's not a whole lot of special things going on underneath.
By the way, the Red Factory is one post in a series of posts from 2016 when my friends Fishy and Chaos came to visit. These posts have their own keyword, so you can view all 8 of the posts from there.