Creating and sharing a walk plan

What you can do

On the Map you can pick up to 5 venues you want to visit and build a walk plan that lays out your visiting order. You can bundle the plan you’ve built into a single URL and share it with the people you’re going with.

• Viewable without logging in — whoever receives the URL can browse the map, the list, and the transit links as-is, no login required
• Editable and importable — if the recipient has Bijusanpo open, they can copy the shared plan onto their own map to reorder it or add venues

Planning a walk

You can add venues to your plan while you narrow down exhibitions on the Map or in the list.

1. Tap the pin of a venue you want to visit (or an exhibition in the list) → press “Add to 10/17(Sat) plan” on the card (the date is the visit date selected on the Map; up to 5 venues)
2. Added venues get a number badge (① ② ③…) on their pins, and a “Walk plan” button with the count appears at the top left
3. Press the “Walk plan” button to see the list in visiting order

For exhibitions already in your plan, the same button becomes “Remove from walk plan”.

On the plan screen you can:

• Reorder your visits with the ▲ ▼ buttons
• Remove just one exhibition from the plan with its ×
• Sort everything at once with “Sort by nearest” (when you have a current location or a starting point)
• Open the transit route in Google Maps from the “See transit” link for each leg
• Clear your whole selection with “Reset” (with a confirmation dialog)

The venues you add are saved automatically in your browser, so even if you leave the page, you can pick up where you left off the next time you return to /map.

Sharing a walk plan

Once your plan is built, you can bundle it into a single URL from the “Share walk plan” button at the bottom of the plan screen.

1. Decide everything up to your visiting order using the steps above
2. Tap “Share walk plan” at the bottom of the plan screen
3. Choose a recipient in your device’s share menu (LINE / Messages / email, etc.)

In environments where the share menu isn’t available, the URL is copied to your clipboard and a “Share URL copied” toast appears on screen.

Viewing a shared plan

When someone who receives the URL opens the link, the following is shown without logging in:

• The date of the visit and the number of venues
• A mini map showing where the venues are (numbered markers indicate the visiting order)
• A venue → exhibition list (tap to show exhibition details in a modal)
• Transit links for each leg (jump to Google Maps in transit mode, split up as “from current location,” “from ①,” and so on)

Tapping “Take this walk” at the bottom of the screen brings up a day picker, and the plan is imported into the Map for the day you choose. You can add venues and reorder them from there. If you were already building a plan on the map, a dialog appears to confirm whether it’s okay to replace it.

Even if the shared visit date is in the past, you can pick another day as long as some of the exhibitions are still running. When all of them have ended, the button doesn’t appear and you can move to the current list via “Browse exhibitions on now”.

Common stumbling points

• Venues dropped from my plan after I changed the date — venues closed or out of their exhibition period on that day, or hidden by the “Want to go only” filter, are automatically removed from the plan (you’re notified by a toast at the bottom of the screen)
• The share menu doesn’t appear — in browsers that don’t support the Web Share API, the URL is copied to your clipboard automatically. Paste it and send it in a message
• Opening the share URL sent me to the top page — in rare cases, loading the shared plan fails and you get redirected to the top page. Sorry for the trouble, but please open the URL again
• A confirmation dialog appeared when I pressed “Take this walk” — this appears when you were already building a plan on your own map. If you choose “OK,” your own plan is discarded and replaced with the shared one