Achira: Japan Stamp Rally

Find the nearest konbini, café or sento. Follow the arrow, walk there, stamp it — each visit prints a riso logbook page. Free, 100% offline, 55,000+ places.

Achira (あちら) — That way. Over there.

A haptic compass for the intentional wanderer. Drop the map. Drop the route. Achira points you at a vague target — a Lawson three blocks east, a 7-Eleven down a side street you've never noticed — and gets out of your way. The real Japan happens between the targets, on the streets you'd never have walked.

WHO ACHIRA IS FOR

• The first-time visitor who's seen every famous Tokyo crossing on Instagram and wants to find the streets that aren't.
• The long-stay traveller doing a slow lap of Japan, who wants a paper-feeling record of where their feet actually went.
• The walker, runner, and step-counter enthusiast looking for a reason to take the longer route.
• The completionist who likes the satisfaction of a slowly-filling field guide.

HOW DISCOVERY WORKS

1. Open Achira. The needle pulls in one direction — toward the nearest konbini you haven't stamped yet.
2. Walk that way. Pass other konbinis you didn't know about. Notice the vending machines, the small shrines, the streets the maps don't surface.
3. A haptic nudge fires when you're within 15 metres. Stamp it.
4. The needle picks a new target. Repeat.

A FIELD GUIDE, ONE STAMP AT A TIME Every visit prints a unique Riso-style stamp — real halftone dots, ink mottle, registration shifts. No two impressions print the same.

• Five folders to fill: Stores (per-chain), Places (wards, prefectures, regions), Habits (streaks and titles), Moments (seasonal and calendar), Journey (your overall progress).
• 55,000+ konbinis ship offline. Every stamp records the ward, the date, the weather, and the season.
• Chain loyalty: keep returning to the same konbini chain and a run builds — 5 in a row, 10, 25, 50, 100. Your neighbourhood allegiance, stamped into the book.

STATS, LOGGING & AWARDS

• Titles (称号): unlock ranks like Wanderer and Pilgrim as your streak and store-count grow.
• Achievements: over 100 awards spread across the five folders.
• Streaks: daily walks, weekly rhythms, weather-day specials.
• Field Guide analytics: see your patterns over time — hours walked, wards covered, chains chased.

PURELY PRIVATE & OFFLINE

• Zero data: the entire 55,000+ store catalogue ships with the app. No data plan, no roaming.
• No accounts, no sign-ins, no notifications.
• Your GPS data never leaves your phone.

ACHIRA PRO One subscription (¥500/month, 7-day free trial):

• Chain Filter: lock the compass to one chain and hunt it across the city.
• Nearby Alerts: a quiet nudge when you pass a saved or unstamped place.
• Compass Faces: extra needles for supermarkets, curated neighbourhood guides, and Starbucks Reserve.
• Apple Watch Companion (iOS): glance, walk, stamp. Everything else — stamps, streaks, stats, analytics, all 55,000+ stores — is free for everyone.

On the flight home, don't just leave with a camera roll of the same temples everyone else photographed. Leave with a hand-printed record of where your feet actually went.

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