Jan 19, 2024 10:00:00

'Sit in Shade' lets you know which seat on the left or right has more shade when riding a bus

When you get on a bus route that you're not used to, you may end up sitting in a seat that's always exposed to the sun and getting burned by the sun. ' Sit in Shade ' lets you specify the start and end points of your trip and shows you the proportion of sun and shade along the route, so you can see which side of the bus you should sit on.

Find Best Seat to Minimize Sun Exposure While Traveling - Sit In Shade

https://sitinshade.com/

When you access the site, you will see an input field like this. Enter the start point of movement in 'Enter Place', the end point of movement in 'Enter Destination', the date you want to move in Date, the start time of movement in Time, and click 'Submit'.

Japanese is also available; for example, if you enter 'Tokyo Station Yaesu Exit' as the starting point, candidates will be displayed like this. However, the bus stop name is not always displayed exactly as it appears.

A pin will be placed on the background map. This pin can be moved by dragging and dropping.

Let's take a look at a route that ends at Tokyo Big Sight and departs at 12:00 on January 20th.

Then, it was displayed that I should sit on the left side. The breakdown of the 7km trip is that 25% of the time the left side is in the sun and 75% of the time the right side is in the sun.

When I changed the time and decided to leave at 9am on January 20th, I was seated on the right side.

Unfortunately, there is no bus route that departs from Tokyo Station's Yaesu exit and follows this route (Harumi Dori) to Tokyo Big Sight. A similar system is the 'Miyako 05-2' system, which connects Tokyo Station Marunouchi South Exit and Tokyo Big Sight. I hope that the data will be enriched in the future.