STATION BULLETIN
Fixes and new features, with thanks to the players who help us improve.
In the Nagoya private railways edition, Sasabara Station (17), previously labelled “Shinohara”, and Shigo Station (14), previously “Yotsugo”, on the Aichi Loop Line now carry their correct names. ささばら and しごう are accepted as answers.
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Shimo-Soga, Kami-Oi, Sagami-Kaneko, Matsuda, Higashi-Yamakita, Yamakita and Yaga on the Gotemba Line are in, bringing the Kanto JR edition to 482 stations on 39 lines. JR Central runs the Gotemba Line, so it was left out while the edition covered JR East only; the edition now covers every JR station in Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama and Chiba. Like the other lines it stops at the prefecture border, at Yaga, the westernmost station in Kanagawa (Suruga-Oyama onward is in Shizuoka). Kozu becomes an interchange between the Tokaido and Gotemba lines. Answer rates for the seven new stations count only plays made after they were added.
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“Give up” and “Start over” asked for confirmation with the browser’s own dialog. Some in-app browsers (the page you get when you open a link inside a social media app) and browsers set to block dialogs never show that dialog and treat it as “Cancel”, so the button seemed dead. The question is now drawn in the page itself, so finishing works in every browser.
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The YouTube channel “Belfastは19街区のなか。@地理・都市論” played the game on stream in “【地理雑談】今後の活動について＆〇〇全駅当てよう”. The About page now has a Special thanks section with links to the stream and the channel’s X account.
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Chinese writes the 渋 of Shibuya as 澀 or 涩, but many players type the look-alike 涉. Spellings like 涉谷 and 涉川 now count for Shibuya, Shibukawa, Shibusawa and Koza-Shibuya in every game; before, only the Tokyo subway edition accepted 涉谷.
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The Kita-Kanto JR Challenge is live: 168 JR East stations on 15 lines across Tochigi, Gunma and Ibaraki, including the Joban, Utsunomiya, Nikko, Karasuyama, Mito, Ryomo, Joetsu, Agatsuma, Shin'etsu Main, Suigun and Kashima lines. Doai, with its 462 steps, is in, and so is Kairakuen, open only during the plum festival. As in the Kanto JR edition, lines are cut at the prefecture borders, so Toride, Koga, Shimmachi and Gumma-Fujioka are in this one. Line names are shown from the start.
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In the Kanto Private Rail (712 stations), Kansai Private Rail (598) and Kanto JR (475) editions, runs that named more than 400 stations were left out of the shared statistics (the score distribution and each station’s answer rate). This is fixed: runs of any length now count. Runs from before the fix cannot be added retroactively; we are sorry about that.
Thank you to everyone taking on all those stations.
Ajiyoshi on the Meitetsu Komaki Line (KM11) and Ajiyoshi on the Johoku Line are separate stations about a ten-minute walk apart, not an official interchange. They used to count as one; they now count as two, so the Nagoya private railways edition has 324 stations. Each time you enter 味美 (Ajiyoshi) it answers one of them, and 名鉄味美 or 城北線味美 answers that station directly.
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In the Kansai private railways edition, Nabata Station (Kintetsu Ikoma Line, G18), previously labelled “Natabata”, and Koboreguchi Station (Kintetsu Minami-Osaka Line, F02), previously “Kohoriguchi”, now carry their correct names. なばた and こぼれぐち are accepted as answers.
Thank you to the players who reported these and helped improve our station data.
The Kanto Other Lines Challenge is live: 225 stations on the 19 lines in Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama and Chiba that are neither subway, nor JR, nor one of the major private railways. It covers the Yurikamome, Rinkai Line, Tokyo Monorail, Tsukuba Express, Toden Arakawa Line, Nippori-Toneri Liner, Tama Monorail, Hokuso Line, Toyo Rapid Line, Saitama Railway Line, New Shuttle, Chiba Monorail, Disney Resort Line, Yamaman Yukarigaoka Line, Kanazawa Seaside Line, Enoden, Shonan Monorail and Ryutetsu Nagareyama Line. As in the Kanto Private Rail edition, line names are hidden: name three stations on a line and its name and colour are revealed. This edition takes the Tsukuba Express only as far as Kashiwa-Tanaka, its last station in Chiba.
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The Kanto JR Challenge is live: 475 JR East stations on 38 lines across Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama and Chiba. It covers the Tokaido, Utsunomiya and Takasaki lines that the Shonan-Shinjuku and Ueno-Tokyo lines run on, the Uchibo, Sotobo and Kururi lines on the Boso Peninsula, and the Tsurumi Line out to Umi-Shibaura, the station you cannot leave. Line names are shown from the start. Lines are cut where they leave the four prefectures, so Toride, Atami, Koga and Shimmachi are not included. The Tokyo-only Tokyo JR edition (142 stations) is still there to play.
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In the Kanto private railways edition, Meidaimae (IN08) on the Keio Inokashira Line was wrongly placed between Shimo-Kitazawa and Shindaita. It now sits between Higashi-Matsubara and Eifukucho, so the map, neighbouring stops and quiz hints are correct. Koku-koen Station (Seibu Shinjuku Line, SS23), previously labelled “Kokuko-koen”, and Yoshita Station (Kintetsu Keihanna Line, C25) in the Kansai private railways edition, previously “Yoshida”, now carry their correct names. こうくうこうえん and よした are accepted as answers.
Thank you to the players who reported these and helped improve our station data.
In the Kanto private railways edition, Aioi Station (Tobu Kiryu Line, TI56) was incorrectly labelled “Oioi”. It now reads “Aioi” and accepts あいおい, アイオイ and Aioi as answers.
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From the Nikko, Suigun and Agatsuma lines to Doai, the station at the bottom of 462 steps: 168 JR East stations on 15 lines across Tochigi, Gunma and Ibaraki. How many can you name from memory?
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168 JR East conventional-line stations in Tochigi, Gunma and Ibaraki (Jomo-Kogen and Annaka-Haruna, served only by the Shinkansen, are not included). Stations served by several lines, such as Oyama and Takasaki, count once. Kairakuen, open only during the plum festival, and Kashima Soccer Stadium, open only on match days, are in.
The Joban, Utsunomiya, Tohoku Main (Kuroiso to Toyohara), Nikko, Karasuyama, Mito, Ryomo, Takasaki, Hachiko, Joetsu, Agatsuma, Shin'etsu Main (Takasaki to Yokokawa), Suigun and Kashima lines. The Suigun Line's Hitachi-Ota branch counts as a line of its own: 15 in all. "Utsunomiya Line" is the name of the Tohoku Main Line as far as Kuroiso, so the section beyond Kuroiso is listed as the Tohoku Main Line.
They are left out: lines leaving the three prefectures are cut at the border. The Joban Line runs from Toride to Otsuko (Tennodai is in Chiba, Nakoso in Fukushima), the Utsunomiya Line starts at Koga (Kurihashi is in Saitama), the Tohoku Main Line ends at Toyohara (Shirasaka is in Fukushima), the Takasaki Line starts at Shimmachi (Jimbohara is in Saitama), the Hachiko Line starts at Gumma-Fujioka (Tansho is in Saitama), the Joetsu Line ends at Doai (Tsuchitaru is in Niigata), the Suigun Line ends at Shimonomiya (Yamatsuriyama is in Fukushima) and the Kashima Line starts at Itako (Junikyo is in Chiba). Tennodai, Kurihashi, Jimbohara, Tansho and Junikyo are in the Kanto JR edition.
Type a station name and press Enter. Japanese, kana, romaji and Chinese names all work. Romaji can follow the station signs (Gumma-Fujioka, Shim-Maebashi) or the usual spelling (Gunma-Fujioka, Shin-Maebashi).
Use the line and the neighbouring stops to pick the hidden station from four choices.
Five multiple-choice questions that change at midnight Japan time. Everyone gets the same five that day, and you get one try. Play every day to build a streak, which shows when you share.