Footscroll - Japanese Steps
Walk Japan's ancient coast
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
NEW: Survey Journal. Every ancient province you walk through becomes a sumi-e painting and diary entry. Retrace old Japan's coast, one step at a time.
Every step you take writes a new page in a 200-year-old story.
Footscroll turns your daily walk into the legendary journey of Ino Tadataka — the Edo-period cartographer who spent 17 years walking Japan's entire coastline to create the nation's first accurate map.
■ Ino Tadataka's Dream
Your steps fuel a tiny surveyor's progress along Japan's 40,000 km coastline. Watch him walk across Honshu, Hokkaido, Shikoku, Kyushu, and beyond — all rendered on aged washi paper with sumi ink, just like the original Ino maps. The further you walk in real life, the more of Japan unfolds before you.
■ Charts That Tell a Story
Track your steps across four time scales — day, week, month, and year. A prediction bar shows whether you're on pace to hit today's goal. A heatmap calendar paints your active days in shades of green.
■ Gold Leaf Celebration
Hit your daily goal and gold leaf drifts across the screen — a quiet, beautiful moment of celebration. Your consecutive streak is tracked too, keeping you motivated day after day.
■ Washi, Sumi, Indigo
This isn't just another step counter. Footscroll is crafted with the aesthetics of traditional Japanese art: washi paper textures, sumi ink coastlines, indigo ocean gradients, and old province names written in classical vertical script. Every screen feels like holding a piece of Edo-era cartography.
■ Your Data Stays Yours
Steps are read from Apple Health. Everything is stored on your device. Nothing leaves your phone. Ever.
Key features:
• Step ring with daily goal tracking
• Ino Tadataka's Dream — coastline survey mode
• Day / week / month / year step charts
• Step heatmap calendar
• Pace comparison vs. yesterday
• Consecutive goal streak
• Gold leaf celebration animation
• Japanese & English
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v1.3.0 — Introducing the Survey Journal
Your footsteps now become history.
• Survey Journal
A timeline of every ancient province you've walked through.
Arrival date, steps, distance, days stayed — and a hand-drawn
sumi-e painting with a short diary entry for each region.
• 34 New Sumi-e Illustrations
From Hokkaido's snowy coast to Kyushu's volcanoes.
• Two-Tab View
Switch seamlessly between the Survey Map and the new Journal.
• Faster & Unified
The Journal opens instantly. Map and Journal now share a single
source of truth, so province names always match.
Walk the coast of ancient Japan, one step at a time.
The developer, Isao Yamaguchi, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Isao Yamaguchi
- Size
- 13.5 MB
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later. - Apple Watch
Requires watchOS 10.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English and Japanese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Contains
Advertising
- In-App Purchases
Yes
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- Copyright
- © 2026 mikocode
