https://maprise.jp/en/blog/ Official MAPRISE blog: Kyushu real estate, GIS, seismic simulation and data operations. en Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://maprise.jp/en/blog/fukuoka-seminar/ https://maprise.jp/en/blog/fukuoka-seminar/ Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Kinoko event Yokatoko Business Plan Contest Fukuoka Prefecture Speaking engagement Entrepreneurship In the middle of the second-round document screening for the Fukuoka Yokatoko Business Plan Contest, I received a call from the Fukuoka Prefecture SME Support Office, asking me to present MAPRISE's business plan at a training session for people who support new businesses across the region. Here's how the day went, and what I took away from it. https://maprise.jp/en/blog/denshouhi-monuments/ https://maprise.jp/en/blog/denshouhi-monuments/ Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Kinoko release Disaster monuments Disaster prevention Land history GSI Kyushu In Japan, disaster and land use have always come as a package. Volcanoes, earthquakes, typhoons. Most of the country is mountains, the rivers are steep, and flat land is scarce. We live on that scarce flat land, or on ground we cut and filled to make. Earlier generations carved what happened into stone. Here is why we put 278 natural disaster monuments across Kyushu on the map, and how to read them. https://maprise.jp/en/blog/purpose-preset-layers/ https://maprise.jp/en/blog/purpose-preset-layers/ Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Kinoko tutorial Purpose presets UI/UX Layer management How-to MAPRISE has more than 50 layers, and picking the right ones for a given purpose, one by one, is genuinely tedious. So we built "Purpose Presets": six buttons, each tuned to a specific business scenario — collateral appraisal, disclosure prep, land acquisition, and more — that switch on the right set of layers with a single click. Here's exactly what each preset turns on. https://maprise.jp/en/blog/site-selection-fukuoka/ https://maprise.jp/en/blog/site-selection-fukuoka/ Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Kinoko research Site selection Feasibility Population forecast Mesh statistics Fukuoka City Search for "Japan market entry" and you get business-etiquette explainers and articles about Tokyo. But what actually decides whether a store or a branch works is a question that comes earlier: can a business survive in this specific spot? Using Fukuoka as the example, we walk through an actual location feasibility check in three steps — 500 m mesh population projections, switching to 250 m resolution, and overlaying station passenger counts with land prices. https://maprise.jp/en/blog/tenjin-big-bang/ https://maprise.jp/en/blog/tenjin-big-bang/ Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Kinoko research Tenjin Big Bang Fukuoka Land price Urban redevelopment PLATEAU Fukuoka keeps getting called Japan's fastest-appreciating city, and the Tenjin Big Bang redevelopment gets the credit. We checked the claim directly against MAPRISE's land-price and 3D-building data — down to a tower still under construction at ¥11.8 million per square meter — and against the population numbers that make the whole thing possible. https://maprise.jp/en/blog/mizuki-great-wall/ https://maprise.jp/en/blog/mizuki-great-wall/ Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Kinoko research Mizuki Dazaifu Onojo Castle Terrain Hillshade map After its defeat at the Battle of Baekgang, ancient Japan built a massive earthen rampart called "Mizuki" to defend Dazaifu. Line up a standard map, aerial photo, elevation-tint map, and hillshade map side by side in a four-way split, and the same dead-straight artificial ridge jumps out at you in all four. A map nerd digs history out of terrain and can't stop grinning about it. https://maprise.jp/en/blog/tsmc-kikuyo-land-price/ https://maprise.jp/en/blog/tsmc-kikuyo-land-price/ Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Kinoko research TSMC Kikuyo Town Land price Semiconductors Kumamoto Prefecture TSMC's move into Kumamoto has sent land prices in Kikuyo Town moving fast. Using MAPRISE's price-change-rate map and per-point price trend charts, we compared the Kikuyo Hikarinomori area directly against an ordinary residential neighborhood elsewhere in Kumamoto City. A numbers-first look at the impact of a major plant arriving. https://maprise.jp/en/blog/seismic-collapse-scoring-accuracy/ https://maprise.jp/en/blog/seismic-collapse-scoring-accuracy/ Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Kinoko research seismic simulation beta validation We combine ground and building data with academic damage functions to estimate per-building collapse probability, then validate the results against real observation records and field surveys. https://maprise.jp/en/blog/national-forest-compartments/ https://maprise.jp/en/blog/national-forest-compartments/ Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Kinoko release national forest forestry data update land screening collateral appraisal Using the Forestry Agency's National Forest GIS Data (FY2024 edition), we've added a layer that displays Kyushu's national forests at the "sub-compartment" level for all 7 prefectures — with species, stand age, area, function type, and protection-forest designation. Here's how it changes what you see, alongside the existing Forest Area layer. https://maprise.jp/en/blog/plateau-usage-data-enrichment/ https://maprise.jp/en/blog/plateau-usage-data-enrichment/ Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Kinoko research PLATEAU 3D city model MLIT Open data Case study MLIT's PLATEAU 3D city model leaves over 270,000 buildings across Kyushu with no recorded use — even landmarks like Canal City Hakata. Here's how we combined external data sources to fill in the use classification for 471 of them. https://maprise.jp/en/blog/hizen-bori-history/ https://maprise.jp/en/blog/hizen-bori-history/ Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Kinoko research Hizen Moat Fukuoka Castle Tenjin underground mall Meiji-era wetlands Ground The "Stone-Paved Plaza" in the Tenjin underground mall quietly carries the memory of the Hizen Moat — a 50-meter-wide canal that once ran east-west between Fukuoka Castle and Tenjin. A map-and-history-obsessed developer went chasing its traces, overlaying the Meiji-era wetland and land-use layers along the way. https://maprise.jp/en/blog/plateau-buildings-3d/ https://maprise.jp/en/blog/plateau-buildings-3d/ Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Kinoko tutorial PLATEAU 3D city model Seismic standards Earthquake simulation AI Built from MLIT's PLATEAU 3D city model, this layer color-codes roughly 1.55 million buildings across 17 Kyushu cities in three ways — by use, by seismic standard, and by height. We walk through each mode, who it helps across our five target industries, and the AI mode that analyzes six-scenario collapse probability from a single building click. https://maprise.jp/en/blog/listed-company-real-estate-experiment/ https://maprise.jp/en/blog/listed-company-real-estate-experiment/ Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Kinoko report Trial EDINET Annual Securities Report In development Listed companies Instead of planning everything out before starting, sometimes you just build and think as you go. That's how this trial came together: plotting the land and buildings that listed companies based in Fukuoka Prefecture disclose in their Annual Securities Reports, right on the map — with a direct link back to the source PDF for each one. https://maprise.jp/en/blog/retaining-wall-infrastructure-aging-1/ https://maprise.jp/en/blog/retaining-wall-infrastructure-aging-1/ Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Kinoko research Retaining walls Aging infrastructure Vacant-home problem Disaster prevention Urban planning Almost every neighborhood built by cutting into hills has one: a retaining wall. Concrete's service life, ownership gaps left by inheritance and vacant homes, the slow pace of administrative enforcement. We look at the aging risk sitting quietly underfoot, and how a platform like MAPRISE might help. https://maprise.jp/en/blog/land-appraisal-two-appraisers/ https://maprise.jp/en/blog/land-appraisal-two-appraisers/ Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Kinoko tutorial Appraisal report Land Price Publication Land Price Survey XCT001 Three-approach valuation Japan's Official Land Price Publication and Prefectural Land Price Survey actually have two independent real-estate appraisers evaluate every reference point. We walk through why two appraisers, what the "three-approach" valuation method is, and why plotting it all on a map in MAPRISE is so useful — with screenshots along the way. https://maprise.jp/en/blog/morido-regulation-and-fill-land/ https://maprise.jp/en/blog/morido-regulation-and-fill-land/ Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Kinoko release Embankment regulation law Large-scale fill land Ground Disaster prevention Data update We've added Land-alteration Work Regulation Areas / Specified Fill-land Regulation Areas (under Japan's embankment regulation law) and Large-scale Fill Land (valley-fill and slope-attached types) layers for all 7 Kyushu prefectures. These look similar but describe two very different things — "regulation on future fill work" versus "ground risk on existing developed land." Here's how MAPRISE displays both. https://maprise.jp/en/blog/multistage-flood-simulation/ https://maprise.jp/en/blog/multistage-flood-simulation/ Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Kinoko release Multi-stage flood simulation Disaster prevention Hazard National Land Numerical Information Data update We've added "Multi-stage Flood Simulation" data — newly compiled as National Land Numerical Information in fiscal 2025 — to MAPRISE. Switch between rainfall scales, from a frequent 1-in-10-year storm to the theoretical maximum 1-in-150-year event, and watch how flood extent and depth change on the map. We walk through it using the Onga River basin as an example. https://maprise.jp/en/blog/transaction-vs-contract-price/ https://maprise.jp/en/blog/transaction-vs-contract-price/ Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Kinoko tutorial Transaction price Contract price Data update UI/UX Adding contract-price data to MAPRISE gave us a reason to unpack the difference between "transaction price" and "contract price" in Japanese real estate. On the map, ring-shaped icons and filled-dot icons now tell the two apart at a glance — alongside fine-grained filters for year, price band, and property type. https://maprise.jp/en/blog/ground-boring-kunijiban/ https://maprise.jp/en/blog/ground-boring-kunijiban/ Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Kinoko release Ground Borehole logs KuniJiban Disaster prevention Data update We've added borehole-log data for all seven Kyushu prefectures to MAPRISE. Click one of the orange points on the map and the ground elevation, total drilling depth, groundwater level, survey date, and soil profile pop right up — primary-source information for checking what's beneath a site before you build, lease, or buy. https://maprise.jp/en/blog/megasolar-and-the-mountains/ https://maprise.jp/en/blog/megasolar-and-the-mountains/ Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Kinoko research Mega-solar Solar PV Deforestation Disaster prevention FIT Data update We added a layer of FIT-certified solar PV facilities — about 68,000 across the seven Kyushu prefectures — to MAPRISE. Overlaying the data on the map made one thing visible: facilities built by clearing forests and cutting into slopes. Reduced water retention, landslide risk, glare for nearby residents. Is renewable energy meant to fight climate change quietly destroying another part of nature? Drawing on issues reported on the ground, this is a warning about siting.