Could you do the same for ramen restaurants?

[jstoxrocky]

I'm curious if you can find the nearest ramen shops too!

[kikkia]

That would be pretty interesting, The big thing is if I can find a dataset, which I will see if I can find one. Thanks for the idea.

[jstoxrocky]

Try here: https://itp.ne.jp/

Would need to scrape but the data is there and pretty accurate. Where did you get the conbini data from?

[kikkia]

Interesting, that site has addresses. I will need to look into translating addresses to Lat,Lon coordinates. I typically have seen only paid tools for that, but maybe the number would be low enough to keep it in some free tier.

[jstoxrocky]

No need to geocode the lat/lon from the address (that gets expensive - I know I run a web scraper for real estate listings). Just inspect the Map button and you see the lat/lon is included in the URL to Google Maps.

You could just scrape that.

I do a little geospatial research myself - I found this paper that looks at population growth and conbini in Sapporo. They mentioned they got their conbini geospatial data from the NTT site I linked above.

[kikkia]

That is such a great trick, thanks for that haha, I will need to look at that NTT site it looks really useful for stuff like this. Thanks

[jstoxrocky]

So how did you get the data for the conbini? Happy to chat in a DM if you don't want that public. It's hard to come across datasets like these.

[kikkia]

There are some cool datasets that you can fine when searching for "conbini map" on google too :)

[vrcalphabet]

For major convenience stores, you can obtain a list of stores from the company's website. However, there are no datasets available, so you would have to scrape them. On the other hand, you can create a dataset that is up-to-date and complete.

Lawson: https://www.e-map.ne.jp/p/lawson/
7-Eleven: https://www.e-map.ne.jp/p/711map/?p_s1=40000
Family Mart: https://www.family.co.jp/store.html
Ministop: https://map.ministop.co.jp/
SeicoMart: https://store.seicomart.co.jp/

[vrcalphabet]

Similarly, for ramen shops, you can refer to the store list from the company's website.

Hidakaya (日高屋): https://hidakaya.hiday.co.jp/hits/ja/shop/1/index.html?takeout=
Kourakuen (幸楽苑): https://stores.kourakuen.co.jp/
Osaka Ohsho (大阪王将): https://www.osaka-ohsho.com/store/
Gyoza Ohsho (餃子の王将): https://www.ohsho.co.jp/shop/
Ringerhut (リンガーハット): https://shop.ringerhut.jp/

I hope this helps! :D