🇯🇵 Japan in Skydex

Japan packs 18 cities into a string of mountainous islands. Tokyo is the busiest sky on the map; Sapporo and Naha are calmer if you want the airspace to yourself.

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Heard over Japan last 30 days, by the Skydex receiver network

4,220 aircraft on 31 days · 38,897 sightings (one aircraft on one day) · type known for 4,194 of them.

Counted from what our volunteers’ antennas received — no other tracker involved. About the network · the stations · add yours

Seen on the water around Japan last 30 days, AIS via the Skydex feed

2,207 vessels on 30 days · 8,676 sightings (one vessel on one day) · type known for 1,691 of them.

Counted from the AIS positions the Skydex feed received here — sampled once a day in local daytime, plus whenever pilots fly here — not a port register. Ship tracking

Activity in Japan

Busiest cities this week

  1. 1Tokyo11 flights · 2 pilots
  2. 2Fukuoka2 flights · 2 pilots
Today2 flights1 pilot2 visits
This week13 flights3 pilots13 visits
This month50 flights7 pilots60 visits

Visitors came from 6 countries this month.

“Pilots” counts signed-in players; “visits” counts sessions, not unique people.

Recent activity across Japan

Flying spots in Japan

🛩 Where to fly a drone in Japan →

18 cities you can fly

Tokyo
35,676k pop · 35.69°, 139.75°
Ōsaka
11,294k pop · 34.69°, 135.50°
Nagoya
3,230k pop · 35.16°, 136.91°
Fukuoka
2,792k pop · 33.60°, 130.41°
Sapporo
2,544k pop · 43.08°, 141.34°
Sendai
2,250k pop · 38.27°, 140.87°
Hiroshima
2,045k pop · 34.39°, 132.44°
Kyoto
1,805k pop · 35.03°, 135.75°
Naha
905k pop · 26.21°, 127.67°
Nagano
594k pop · 36.65°, 138.17°
Matsuyama
534k pop · 33.85°, 132.77°
Nagasaki
435k pop · 32.77°, 129.88°
Gifu
413k pop · 35.42°, 136.76°
Kōchi
336k pop · 33.56°, 133.54°
Miyazaki
324k pop · 31.92°, 131.42°
Hakodate
303k pop · 41.80°, 140.74°
Kushiro
199k pop · 42.98°, 144.38°
Sakata
100k pop · 38.92°, 139.85°