Hiroshima Map Offers Cat’s-Eye View

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Source: The Wall Street Journal

Hiroshima prefecture has designed a purr-fect map for tourists wishing to see some of its attractions from a different angle.

The prefecture on Tuesday launched a website with what it calls the world’s first “cat’s-eye view” street map, through which users can explore some locations in Onomichi city from a more grounded perspective.

“We were seeking to introduce a different way to look at our cities and offer a view of the streets that wasn’t available before,” a Hiroshima tourism official said. They decided on a cat’s-eye view because Onomichi, a port town known for its large number of cats, is also home to a museum dedicated to Japan’s ‘maneki-neko’ cat dolls, the official said.

The prefecture teamed up with technicians who worked on Google’s street view maps, and used the same equipment to capture the images.



Read more: http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2015/09/02/hiroshima-map-offers-cats-eye-view/

Link to Hiroshima Cat Street View: http://hiroshima-welcome.jp/kanpai/catstreetview/

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