TEMPLATHON
34.9671° N · 135.7727° E · Fushimi Inari, Kyoto

Japan's temples, shrines, museums, heritage and historic sites, easier to visit and easier to understand.

Walking routes between temples and shrines, with the history, etiquette and practical details you need at each stop. Check in by GPS, take a short quiz, keep the badge.

Join the beta See how a stop works
170beta testers on routes in Kyoto
30checkpoints across Fushimi Inari, Higashiyama and Arashiyama
3,376temples, shrines, toilets and konbini mapped offline
38,000views on the video that started it
How a stop works

Arrive, read, answer, move on.

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Pick a route

Full routes run 40 minutes to two hours. Quick challenges cover two stops in about fifteen.

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Check in and read

Within 60 metres the stop unlocks: history, how it was built, what to look for, and a comparison you'll recognise from home.

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Answer three questions

Short and specific to what's in front of you. Three right earns gold, two earns silver.

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Keep the badge

Each stop is logged to your collection. Finish every stop on a route for the route badge.

The practical map

The things you actually look for, already on the map.

Everything within 1.5 km of you, stored on your phone so it works without data. Turn layers on and off as you need them.

Pocket Egg, a white felted egg with red cheeks, smiling calmly Pocket Egg looking puzzled, with a question mark thought bubble Pocket Egg beaming with its eyes shut Pocket Egg frowning with a tear on each cheek
Pocket Egg

A guide in the corner of every stop.

  1. On every fact sheetTap "Ask me about this place" for the story, when it was built and what to notice.
  2. Thinks it through with youEach quiz question gets the same puzzled look you're making.
  3. Cheers a right answerGet it right and it lights up.
  4. Takes a wrong one hardGet it wrong and it cries a little. Read the fact sheet first.
Your collection

A record of where you've been, stop by stop.

Like a goshuin book for your phone. Bronze, silver or gold at each checkpoint depending on what you learned, and a finisher badge for completing the whole route.

Badge collection showing silver, gold and silver badges on the Fushimi Inari trail, 3 of 7 stops
Beta

Going to Japan? Try a route.

iOS and Android beta. Leave your email and you'll get access before it opens to everyone.

Your phone

For councils and tourism boards

See how visitors actually move between sites.

Verified, anonymised movement data from every route walked.

Visitor data → About

Started by a comment section asking "how?"

Where Templathon came from, who's building it and how routes are made.

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