Open Places API

Coverage

Places API for Japan.

3,053,194 places in Japan, searchable with one GET request. Just over three million places across the archipelago, one of the densest travel markets we serve.

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One request away.

Search "ramen" near Tokyo (35.6762, 139.6503) and get JSON back: names, coordinates, categories, structured addresses, and distances in miles.

Native-script search is supported for Japan, including two-character CJK place-name queries. Romanized aliases also match when they are present in Overture. 

curl -G "https://api.openplacesapi.com/v1/places" \
  --data-urlencode "q=ramen" \
  --data-urlencode "lat=35.6762" \
  --data-urlencode "lon=139.6503" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPEN_PLACES_API_KEY"

Coordinates to try: Tokyo 35.6762, 139.6503 · Osaka 34.6937, 135.5023 · Kyoto 35.0116, 135.7681

What you can build with it.

Travel & itinerary apps

Surface food, sights, and services around hotels and route points across Japan.

"What's nearby" features

Real estate, delivery zones, and store finders: anything that asks what's near a coordinate.

AI agents

Give an agent real Japan places instead of hallucinated ones. See the agent guide.

Japan coverage FAQ.

Does Open Places API cover Japan?

Yes. 3,053,194 places in Japan are live in production search today. Coverage we list is coverage that answers: if a request can't be served, the API returns a clear error instead of partial results.

Where does the Japan place data come from?

From the Overture Maps Foundation Places dataset: open data backed by Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and TomTom. Open Places API tracks Overture's monthly releases and promotes each one after validation.

Can I add my own places in Japan?

Yes. Account-owned layers let you add private records, correct base data, and suppress places, merged into every search your API keys make, on top of or instead of the Overture base.

What does it cost?

Plans are flat with hard caps: free for 10,000 searches a month, $19 for 30,000, $49 for 100,000, $249 for 1 million. When you hit the cap the API returns a 402 and stops. It never bills an overage.

Can I search Japan places in local script?

Yes. Native Japanese and Korean names are indexed directly, including two-character CJK name queries, and romanized aliases remain searchable when Overture publishes them.

Also covered.

United States · Canada · Mexico · United Kingdom · Ireland · Germany · France · Italy · Spain · Denmark · South Korea · Singapore · Malaysia · Dominican Republic · Costa Rica · Puerto Rico · Jamaica · Bahamas

Full details on the coverage page. We list a country only when it's live in production. If it's on this page, it answers.