Newly Designed "Traveling" Experience

A website on the island feels the island

Information on Ishigaki-jima which is a sightseeing place already has many guide books and web sites already. What ISHIGAKI NOW aimed for is not to go through the points on the guide book like a stamp rally, but to deliver to the general traveler what kind of perspectives you would like to spend at Ishigakijima in that place .

Have the viewpoint for feeling a new Ishigakijima feeling at the moment of instant such as guidance from the entrance screen of free Wi-Fi in the island and the recommended content matching the time zone of the website visit, and more It is aimed at having Ishigaki Island experience deeply.

In the area on the upper left of the Web site, current weather information and age information are displayed as a live impression. Especially age is acquired by API to express the unique work of Ishigakijima where the phases of the moon are closely related to daily lives, and it is updated in real time.

Professional editing team with diverse perspective

We formed a creator team in line with “diversity” and “external viewpoint” that were keywords throughout the project. As a foreigner’s point of view and a traveler’s point of view, Mr. Lucas of the editor of “PAPERSKY” editor of the magazine ‘PAPERSKY’ with the concept of “in-flight reading magazine on the ground” and a writer of the magazine “Momoto” putting the editorial department inside the island as a viewpoint within Ishigaki- Mr. Yuzuko Matsushima worked with Hokkaido ‘s direction & production team ” Gear 8 ” who is well versed in the inbound of tourists from Asia. Based on my experiences of disseminating various charm both in Japan and abroad, I covered 50 articles in a week.

Information dissemination in traditional Chinese. Love call to Taiwan

More than 250,000 Taiwanese tourists visit Ishigakijima, which is closer to Taiwan than the main island of Okinawa. For travelers from Taiwan, which often have cultural exchanges from the past, we also develop all the contents in Traditional Chinese, not English, in order to get to know Ishigakijima more deeply.

A picture library that anyone can use for free

We re-edited 400 photos selected carefully for the 3-year project and prepared a photo library to be released with CC (Creative Commons License). It enables search by various conditions such as color, location, category, etc., and it is provided as a material that anyone can use when transmitting information from inside and outside the island. It is also assumed as a public information tool that Ishigaki City Tourism Culture Division utilizes in response to external inquiries.

Know the true Ishigaki-jima at “departure and arrival point of travel”.

In order to provide a viewpoint that travelers who visited Ishigaki Island do not travel solely around so-called sightseeing spots but carefully taste the air and stories on the spot, a new booklet “ISHIGAKINOW / journal “Was issued. We distribute it at airports, harbors, hotels, etc. to provide awareness at the starting point of the journey.

In addition, a simple design that imagined a photo collection rather than an information magazine, appointed a colorful photograph taken inside the island and a size feeling easy to put in a bag when traveling the island, a photograph collection rather than an information magazine, a sightseeing with various leaflets Even at the information center, we are aiming for the effect that you want to pick up at the moment you first saw it. By pursuing the quality that I want to take home with, I expect the ripple effect to friends and family around even when the trip is over. Of course, like the website, all the articles are listed together in Traditional Chinese.

A library of photos released free of charge on CC is a system that allows people to use photos even after individual projects, regardless of individuals or corporations. By linking with the external service flickr, the Ishigaki City Hall, a client, can continue to add photos continuously.

Also, since the article contents are produced in collaboration with the local magazine editorial department ‘Momoto editorial department’, even if Loftwork leaves the project, it is possible to continue making new articles only in the island .

Even if it is not possible to update Web sites frequently, by loading Instagram’s hashtag ( #ishigakinow ) and displaying it, “Now” of Ishigakijima is delivered in real time.

Many actions implemented at ISHIGAKINOW ‘s website and ISHIGAKINOW / journal (booklet) are strongly suggested that it is possible to continue, such as continuing at a reasonable pace even after the project itself has reached the end I am consciously designing.