Tokyo aerial photo website

Sites with aerial photos of Japan have thus far been almost nonexistent, unless you had the inclination to spend thousands of dollars a year renting the data. The Decore site, however, is free and allows you to search for aerial photos of Tokyo by address, landmark, or train station (flags showing these can be toggled on and off); once you're in roughly the right area you can click in the photo to recenter. Better still for any mobloggers in the audience is that the URLs include longditude/latitude info, making it simple to add links to aerial photo shots to your moblog posts.

Caveats: (1) Only works with IE6.0; (2) they appear to have a rather draconian linking policy (i.e., you're supposed to notify them of each link), so we'll have to see how they respond to bloggers; (3) the photos appear to all date from 2001, so putting in the coordinates for one of Tokyo's snazzy new developments may get you a photo of a hole in the ground.

Photo is of Tokyo Tower from more or less directly above.

[Go: DECORE (Japanese only)]