watoji

watoji is an up-to-date app specializing in Japan culture.
It is a free application that allows you to see cultural portals that make it easy to find information that is difficult to find by search, news, event information links, who's who, etc. by purpose.
The service will deliver buried high-quality information to those who truly love domestic and foreign cultures.
- Channel-Highly specialized genre division is fun
Information disseminated by reliable information media and information related to the culture of various business types, from cultural facilities, commercial facilities, producers, writers, craftsmen, tourism to forest conservation NPOs, are distributed and displayed in channels for each genre.
Based on your interests, what is happening now? What's the topic? Where and how do I get there? You can get such information at once.
- News Curation App; Targeting people with highly commited for culture, evolving like a salon through connections between people
In the world of culture, there are many "for those who really love culture" places. It is accompanied by a program that tries to revitalize the culture by verifying the degree of introduction of people and the number of experiences of events attended, and making that certification possible on the Web. (The program "WATOJI Community Status" will be fully operational from September 2023)
- Only advertisements that are meaningful to the user are displayed
The site and app are free for both users and information disseminators. Supporting this environment is advertisers. Only content that contributes to culture and society will be advertised. What kind of companies are doing business and for what purpose? Please look forward to the "WATOJI supporter" channel.
*** Features ***
- You can freely select and sort the topics you want to read from a variety of channels such as "videos", "exhibitions", "Tourism", "learning and experiences", "Culture and Technology", "Recycling Society", "Tea ceremony", "Urushi-Lacquer", "Ceramics", " Textiles & Fibers".
- The "Explore" channel has a built-in collection of links that allow you to search for keywords from the Japan Culture Map database, which searches for people, places, and activities involved in cultural activities, and instantly understand what kind of activities you are doing.
- It is difficult to find cultural experiences, travel, and learning that are effective in fostering sensibility by searching. At Watoji, we narrow down by purpose such as acceptance conditions × schedule × region, for example, which experiences can children participate in? Under these conditions, we will cover temporary events of lesser-known cultural facilities.
- On the My Page of the "Home" mark, you can customize various things such as checking messages for registered users, channels, and the contents of push notifications.