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
Tap the “Plan a walk” button on the Map to enter selection mode.
- Tap the pin of a venue you want to visit → press “Add to walk plan” (up to 5 venues)
- Selected venues get a number badge (① ② ③…) and line up in the toolbar at the top of the screen
- Press “Open walk plan” to see the list in visiting order
When you tap a marker in selection mode, an “Add to walk plan” button appears on the preview card. Just tap it to add that venue to your plan.
On the plan screen you can:
- Reorder your visits with the ▲ ▼ buttons
- 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 select 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.
- Decide everything up to your visiting order using the steps above
- Tap “Share walk plan” at the bottom of the plan screen
- 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)
If the visit date is today or later, a “Take this walk” button appears at the bottom of the screen. Tapping it imports that plan into the Map, where you can add venues, reorder them, or change to a different day. If you were already building a plan on the map, a dialog appears to confirm whether it’s okay to replace it.
A shared plan whose visit date is in the past becomes read-only, and instead of an edit button it shows a “Browse exhibitions on now” link. Feel free to use this when sharing your visit on a blog or elsewhere.
Common stumbling points
- Selected venues dropped after I changed the date — venues closed on that day, or hidden by your filters, 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