Bullet Train Timetables Now Viewable in Google Maps

Monday, December 7th, 2009

Google Japan announced on their blog that bullet train timetables are now viewable from within Google Maps. I thought this was an interesting announcement so I decided to translate it into English. The original blog post can be found here: http://googlejapan.blogspot.com/2009/12/google_04.html. Bullet Train Timetables Now Viewable in Google Maps December 4th, 2009 Posted ...

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Google Street View in Japan

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Now that Tokyo and other large Japanese cities have street view (ストリートビュー) , I occasionally browse around looking for some interesting scenes.  For example, here is a shot of Tokyo Tower: 35.659418, 139.744843 And here is a shot looking up at a Yodobashi Camera shop in Akihabara (if you pan the ...

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