Tourism area dataset in Japan

<p>Tourism areas and spots</p> <h3>Tourism area data</h3> <p><code>areas.csv</code><br>Tourism areas in Japan derived from Wikipedia [1]. It includes 378 areas. Each line has the following format as tab delimited:&nbsp;<br><code>area_id, area_name</code><br>Here, the area_id denotes a tourism area ID. The area_name denotes a tourism area name in Japanese.</p> <p><code>areas_admin_areas.csv</code><br>Relation between tourism areas and administrative areas. Each line has the following format as tab delimited:&nbsp;<br><code>area_id, administrative_area_code</code><br>Here, the area_id refers to the area_id in the file areas.csv. The administrative_area_code refers to the administrative area code in the administrative area data [2] provided by the National Land Numerical Information data.</p> <h3>Category data</h3> <p><code>categories.csv</code><br>Categories of tourism spots. It includes 58 categories. Each line has the following format as tab delimited:&nbsp;<br><code>category_id, category_1, category_2</code><br>Here, the category_id denotes a category ID. The category_1 denotes the category name and the category_2 denotes the sub category name in Japanese.</p> <h3>Tourism spot data</h3> <p><code>spots.csv</code><br>Tourism spots in Japan derived from Wikipedia [1]. It includes 12,659 spots. Each line has the following format as tab delimited:&nbsp;<br><code>spot_id, spot_name</code><br>Here, the spot_id denotes a tourism spot ID, which corresponds to the page ID in the Wikipedia [1]. The spot_name denotes a tourism spot name in Japanese, which corresponds to the page title in the Wikipedia.</p> <p><code>spots_latlng.csv</code><br>Location of tourism spots. It includes 8,645 spots. Each line has the following format as tab delimited:&nbsp;<br><code>spot_id, lat, lng</code><br>Here, the spot_id refers to the spot_id in the file spots.csv. The lat and lng denote latitude and longitude of the spot, respectively.</p> <p><code>spots_categories.csv</code><br>Relation between tourism spots and categories. It includes 9,905 relations and 9,840 unique spots. Each line has the following format as tab delimited:&nbsp;<br><code>spot_id, category_id</code><br>Here, the spot_id refers to the spot_id in the file spots.csv. The category_id refers to the category_id in the file the categories.csv.</p> <p><code>spots_areas.csv</code><br>Relation between tourism spots and tourism areas. It includes 12,065 relations and 11,888 unique spots. Each line has the following format as tab delimited:&nbsp;<br><code>spot_id, area_id</code><br>Here, the spot_id refers to the spot_id in the file spots.csv. The area_id refers to the area_id in the file the areas.csv.</p> <h2>Tourism area vectors</h2> <h3>Land vectors data</h3> <p><code>areas_land_vec.csv</code><br>Land vectors of tourism areas derived from land use data [3] provided by the National Land Numerical Information data. It includes 378 areas. Each line has the following format as tab delimited:&nbsp;<br><code>area_id, 100, 200, 500, 600, 700, 901, 902, 1000, 1100, 1400, 1500, 1600</code><br>Here, the area_id refers to the area_id in the file the areas.csv.&nbsp; The last 12 fields denote land vector and each field denotes the land use type code [3] provided by the National Land Numerical Information data.</p> <p><code>areas_elevation_vec.csv</code><br>Elevation vectors of tourism areas derived from elevation and gradient data [4] provided by the National Land Numerical Information data. It includes 378 areas. Each line has the following format as tab delimited:&nbsp;<br><code>area_id, elev_0.0, elev_0.1, ..., elev_3.6</code><br>Here, the area_id refers to the area_id in the file the areas.csv.&nbsp; The last 37 fields denote elevation vector.</p> <p><code>areas_category_vec.csv</code><br>Category vectors of tourism areas. It includes 378 areas. Each line has the following format as tab delimited:&nbsp;<br><code>area_id, 1, 2, ... 58</code><br>Here, the area_id refers to the area_id in the file the areas.csv.&nbsp; The last 58 fields denote cateogory vector and each field refers to the category_id in the file categories.csv.</p> <h2>References</h2> <ol> <li><a title="Wikipedia" href="ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wikipedia</a>, in Japanese.</li> <li><a title="国土数値情報 | 行政区域データ" href="https://nlftp.mlit.go.jp/ksj/gml/datalist/KsjTmplt-N03-v3_1.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Administrative area data</a>, National Land Numerical Information data, in Japanese.</li> <li><a title="国土数値情報 | 土地利用3次メッシュデータ" href="https://nlftp.mlit.go.jp/ksj/gml/datalist/KsjTmplt-L03-a-v3_1.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Land use data</a>, National Land Numerical Information data, in Japanese.</li> <li><a title="国土数値情報 | 土地利用3次メッシュデータ" href="nlftp.mlit.go.jp/ksj/gml/datalist/KsjTmplt-G04-a.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elevation and gradient data</a>, National Land Numerical Information data, in Japanese.</li> </ol> <h2><strong>Citation</strong></h2> <p>To make use of the dataset, please cite one of the following papers:<strong><br></strong></p> <ul> <li>Kenta Oku. Construction of a tourism area dataset using open data. Society for Tourism Informatics, Vol.20, No.1, pp.45&ndash;64, 2024 (in Japanese).</li> <li>奥健太. オープンデータを用いた観光地エリアデータセットの構築. 観光と情報:観光情報学会誌, 第20巻, 第1号, pp.45-64, 2024.</li> </ul> <h2>Acknowledgments</h2> <p>This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP19K12567.</p>