Privacy Policy

Japan Atlas is an independently operated travel and editorial website, published under the name Japan Atlas.

Privacy questions can be submitted through Contact.

When you use this site, some technical and usage information may be collected automatically. This can include:

• Pages viewed
• Approximate location, such as country or city level
• Browser or device information
• Referring pages
• Interactions with selected site features

Japan Atlas uses this information to understand how the site is used in aggregate and to improve it.

Japan Atlas uses Google Analytics to help understand how the site is used.

Google Analytics may use cookies or similar technologies and may process usage information under Google's own terms and privacy practices. Japan Atlas uses this data to understand site traffic and interactions, not to identify visitors personally.

Google’s own privacy practices are described in Google’s Privacy & Terms.

Japan Atlas may also measure specific editorial interactions on the site — for example, selecting a featured area on a guide, or opening a related planning resource.

These events contain content or page identifiers rather than information you intentionally enter, and are used the same way as other analytics data: to understand what is useful and to improve the site.

Some destination pages include official YouTube videos.

These videos are not loaded until you choose to play them. Once activated, playback uses YouTube's privacy-enhanced youtube-nocookie.com domain, and YouTube may process information about that interaction under its own privacy practices.

Contacting Japan Atlas by email may provide:

• Your email address
• The contents of your message
• Any other information you choose to include

This information is used to respond where appropriate, to investigate corrections or broken links, and to improve the site. Not every message will necessarily receive an individual response.

Email is handled through an ordinary email provider, and correspondence is kept only as long as reasonably necessary for these purposes and for ordinary administrative or legal needs.

Third-party services used on this site, including Google Analytics, may use cookies or similar technologies.

You can control or block cookies through your browser settings, and Google provides its own opt-out tools for Analytics. Blocking cookies may affect analytics but should not prevent you from reading Japan Atlas's guides and articles.

Japan Atlas links to external websites and uses third-party services, including Google Analytics and YouTube.

Those services operate under their own terms and privacy policies. Japan Atlas does not control how external websites or third-party services handle information, and encourages reading their policies directly if you have concerns.

Third-party providers used by this site, including Google, may process information in countries other than your own.

Where that happens, it takes place under each provider's own practices and terms.

Japan Atlas is a general travel-information site and is not directed at children.

Japan Atlas does not knowingly request personal information from children through this site.

Reasonable care is taken in operating this site and handling correspondence. However, no method of internet transmission or electronic storage can be guaranteed completely secure.

This Privacy Policy may be updated as site features, services, or legal requirements change. The current version, with its update date, always appears on this page.

This Privacy Policy is governed by the laws of Japan.

Privacy-related questions can be submitted through Contact.