Map demo

One map beat from the next History of Katana episode, about 15 seconds long. Turn your sound on, then press the PLAY button in the middle of the page.

The map opens on all of Japan and zooms in. The temple pin lands on Kyoto with its own sound.
A road draws itself from Kyoto down the coast to Hamamatsu.
The castle pin lands on Hamamatsu with a second sound, and the province fills in.
A Hiroshige print of Hamamatsu surfaces beside the pin, then grows to fill the frame.

Open the demo The page is about 25 MB, so give it a few seconds to load. Best on a laptop in Chrome or Safari. Press space to replay.

The map sounds

Each kind of place on the map lands with its own sound, and each kind of journey along the road gets its own too. Tap one to hear it. The ones marked coming soon are not made yet.