Japanese Education Facility Locations from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap features in Japan tagged as kindergartens, schools, colleges, or universities. The dataset includes attributes such as name, address, capacity, and operator type, and is provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. It was last updated on 2026-03-03.

Use Cases

• Map the distribution of educational institutions across Japan based on the 'amenity' and 'building' tags.
• Analyze the capacity of facilities for regional planning using the 'capacity:persons' attribute.
• Identify public versus private operators for policy analysis using the 'operator:type' field.
• Geocode addresses of schools and universities for location-based services using the 'addr:full' and 'addr:city' fields.

Strengths

• Includes multiple name variants ('name', 'name:en', 'name:ja') which may aid in multilingual applications.
• Data is available in multiple geospatial formats (GEOJSON, SHP, GEOPACKAGE, KML) for flexibility.
• Explicitly sourced from OpenStreetMap, a well-known collaborative mapping project.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic or contributor bias inherent to OpenStreetMap.

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Export of features from the OpenStreetMap database matching specific 'amenity' and 'building' tags.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-03 09:52:43.397880; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Japan