Photo credits

Every photo on DealTokyo comes from Wikimedia Commons under a free license. Authors and licenses below — each row links to the original file.

Station coordinates, sight and event locations, addresses, walking routes and station exits © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Exits are community-mapped and not a complete or official list. As ODbL §4.6 requires, the databases we extracted from OpenStreetMap are offered in machine-readable form: osm-data.json.

Exit opening hours are read from 東京都交通局's own published exit information , door by door, at the 55 Toei-served stations where its roster covers every exit we list — a designator and a clock time, never the Bureau's own text or drawings. Tokyo Metro publishes the same fact only as an asterisk on a station diagram, so a Metro-only station carries no hours at all rather than an unearned silence. Hours change; the notice at the door is today's answer.

Step-free facts are adapted from Tokyo Metropolitan Government open data (CC BY 4.0): the Bureau of Transportation's station barrier-free tables, its per-elevator inspection dataset — which is what tells us which door at a Toei station has a lift to the street — and the Bureau of Social Welfare's accessible-toilet survey (FY2025), condensed for this site — and the statistical yearbook's Toei subway table, which is where the home page's ridership figure for the Oedo Line comes from. The toilet survey covers seventeen railways, and each toilet is shown with the company whose gates it is behind — a big station is several companies sharing a name. Facilities change — station staff have today's answer.

First and last train times (retrieved 2026-09-14; timetables issued by operator: Tokyo Metro 2024-12-07 to 2026-03-14; Toei 2025-03-15 to 2026-03-16; Tokyo Waterfront Area Rapid Transit 2026-03-14; Metropolitan Intercity Railway 2025-03-15; Tokyo Tama Intercity Monorail 2022-03-12 to 2023-03-20; Yurikamome 2025-10-18; Yokohama Municipal Subway 2025-11-01) and Toei fares come from the Public Transport Open Data Centre (ODPT) — Tokyo Metro, Tokyo Waterfront Area Rapid Transit (Rinkai Line), Metropolitan Intercity Railway (Tsukuba Express), Tokyo Tama Intercity Monorail, Yurikamome and Yokohama Municipal Subway under the Public Transport Open Data Basic Licence, Toei (including the fare table, credit 東京都交通局・公共交通オープンデータ協議会) under CC BY 4.0 . Fares shown are IC-card prices for journeys staying on Toei lines. City-bus stops and routes on station pages are adapted from the same centre's Toei Bus data (credit 東京都交通局・公共交通オープンデータ協議会, CC BY 4.0; retrieved 2026-07-31) and, at the Chiba end of the Tozai Line, from its GTFS-JP feed for 京成バス千葉ウエスト株式会社 (Keisei Bus Chiba West, CC BY 4.0; feed 20260306, valid 20260401–20270401) — English stop names and fares in that section are the operator's own, from the feed, and the arrival times shown there come live from the same operator's GTFS-Realtime TripUpdate feed under the same licence. Share-bike ports and their live availability on station pages are adapted from the same centre's GBFS feeds for 株式会社ドコモ・バイクシェア (docomo bike share) and OpenStreet Co., Ltd. (HELLO CYCLING), both CC BY 4.0; port locations retrieved 2026-08-14, availability live from the operators. The data originates with the operators and is not guaranteed accurate or complete. Please do not contact the railway companies about anything shown on this site — write to taro8607@gmail.com instead.

Nearby places on the food, shopping and after-dark pages come from Overture Maps Foundation places data (release 2026-07-22.0) — CDLA-Permissive-2.0 / Apache-2.0, with contributions including Meta and Foursquare open data. Editorial picks on those pages are our own writing.

The map door image on the home page is assembled from GSI seamless photo tiles (地理院タイル — source: Geospatial Information Authority of Japan website, 国土地理院 ). The fares door is “Toei Yoyogi-STA Ticket-vending-machines” by MaedaAkihiko, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons .

Every rail line drawn on this site is made from MLIT’s National Land Numerical Information rail data (国土数値情報（鉄道データ）（国土交通省）（https://nlftp.mlit.go.jp/ksj/gml/datalist/KsjTmplt-N02-2024.html）を加工して作成 — source: 国土数値情報　鉄道データ N02-2024 ), used under CC BY 4.0 . English names, station numbers and line colours for the private railways come from Wikidata (CC0).

Weather, air and yen readings are not baked into these pages — your browser fetches them from three outside services as you look at them. The forecast, the AMeDAS observations behind “feels like”, and the warning banner are 出典： 気象庁ホームページ (Japan Meteorological Agency), used under the agency's terms of use (公共データ利用規約 第1.0版). Air quality comes from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0), whose free tier is licensed for non-commercial use. Asking the weather page for a forecast at your own location, or the air page for the reading where you are standing, sends those coordinates to it — nowhere else, and only when you press the button. Yen rates come from Frankfurter, which republishes the European Central Bank's daily reference rates — a mid-market reference, not a rate anyone will hand you over a counter.

Coin lockers and cash machines at Toei stations are adapted from 東京都交通局's 駅構内のお店 (CC BY 4.0), covering 25 Toei stations of our 216. Hours are deliberately not reproduced — they change, and the station staff have today's answer.

The background essays on eight station pages — Meiji Jingu's forest, Asakusa, Ameyoko, Shinjuku Gyoen, Kabukiza Theatre, Kokyo Gaien, the Imperial Palace outer garden, Zojoji Temple, Toyosu Market — are quoted verbatim from 観光庁's multilingual commentary database . The agency commissioned them from professional writers and editors, holds the copyright, and permits verbatim reuse including commercial reuse; changing the wording requires its prior consent, so not a character has been altered — not the spelling, not the punctuation, not the length. Each page carries the credit sentence the licence asks for, and the year the text was written, because a sentence counting shops was true in a particular year.

The seven things that go wrong on a first day are quoted from 観光庁's survey of the reception environment for inbound visitors (令和7年度 edition — 4,110 responses collected 18 Nov 2025 – 13 Jan 2026 at Narita, Haneda, Kansai, Fukuoka and New Chitose). Every percentage on that page comes from that one edition. The taxi supplement hours are the 東京ハイヤー・タクシー協会's, which states the rate too — 22時～5時まで 2割増. We print only the hours, and the reason is the rate rather than the source: it is applied as 距離短縮方式, by shortening the meter's distances instead of multiplying the fare. At night the initial 1,000 m becomes 833 m and the 232 m step becomes 193 m (東京都個人タクシー協会), so "20% more" is not true of any particular ride — under 833 m it costs exactly the same as by day, and because both quantise to ¥100 at different lengths some distances land further apart than 20%.

Public holidays — which day the date chip names, and which timetable the last-train strip reads — come from the 内閣府 (Cabinet Office) holiday register (出典：内閣府, 公共データ利用規約 第1.0版), baked at build time. Rows the register names only 「休日」 are shown as “Public holiday”: it does not record whether they are a 振替休日 or a 国民の休日, so neither do we. English names are the conventional renderings — the register is Japanese-only.

Airport bus fares and times are taken from the operators' own published timetables (Keisei Bus, JR Bus Kanto and others, Airport Limousine, Keikyu Bus, Tokyu Bus, Kokusai Kogyo Bus, Tobu Bus, Odakyu Bus, Kanto Bus and Airport Transport Service, Airport Transport Service and Seibu Bus, Airport Transport Service, Airport Transport Service and Tokyu Bus, Willer and Airport Transport Service, Keisei Bus Chiba East, Tobu Bus Central; checked 2026-07-29, 2026-08-16, 2026-08-18) and restated in our words. They change — confirm with the operator before you travel.