1. My Timeline is a sheet that people can use to prepare for storm and flood damage and organize appropriate disaster preparedness actions in advance to prevent panicking in the event of an emergency.
2. You can also create your own evacuation route as a “My Route”, which is useful for evacuation in the event of a disaster, and registering it in advance allows you to check it even when you are not connected to the internet.
3. With the concept of “play,” “learn,” and “use,” this app provides basic knowledge on disaster preparedness which can be taken in while playing on the app, as well as disaster preparedness booklets, disaster prevention maps, and other content useful during a disaster.
4. Create and register a group with family and friends within the app to send and receive messages among each other, including location information, in the event of a disaster.
5. This play-based content in which users earn points by using the app and correctly answering disaster preparedness quiz questions is designed to make your Bosai City a place with a high degree of disaster preparedness.
6. Search for and confirm the locations of various disaster preparedness facilities and other facilities on a map.
7. Additionally, app includes area danger level maps that provide danger levels for selected locations, as well as flood damage risk maps that visually depict the estimated inundation areas for selected locations.
8. Through different scenarios, it introduces food to stockpile, indoor preparations, items to prepare, and other actions to take in advance of an emergency occurring.
9. Quizzes cover a wide range of topics related to disaster preparedness.
10. You can check for Evacuation, Weather, Earthquake, Tsunami, and Volcano information in the Tokyo Metropolitan area, as well as, the area registered by yourself.
11. The offline map function lets you check maps even when not connected to the internet if you download the necessary municipality maps.
1. I downloaded a different app just to make sure it wasn't my phone or connection.Not all of the app is in English, and there is no alarm system to warn of Earthquakes, etc.
2. During typhoon #19, I was trying to download the app because it claims to have news and alerts in English.
3. I can easily get emergency information from the internet, so this app isn't useful.Great App! Everyone going to Japan or living there from abroad should use this.
4. It failed to download, saying "Could not connect to the internet" over and over again.
5. Thank you for this app!A lot of good tips.