Roads about …

All roads in America cross referenced with names from Japan on Wikipedia

Example:

  1. Tokio Loop
  2. matches an alias of
  3. Tokyo,
  4. which is located in
  5. Japan

1947 roads in 49 states are named the same as Japan

Hawaii is the densest

States have a different total number of roads, so we compare by a percent of roads.

1 out of every 406 roads in Hawaii resonates with this theme.

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Each dot is one county, sized by how many of its roads resonate with the theme. A small dot is a handful; a big one is hundreds.

Sizes are relative to this search: the biggest dot is this theme's busiest county, so a big dot here and a big dot in another theme are not the same number.

Most popular: Tokio Loop

  1. Tokio Loop
  2. matches an alias of
  3. Tokyo,
  4. which is located in
  5. Japan

42 roads 12 counties ~4.9M views last year

Tokyo

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Most popular: Kyoto Lane

  1. Kyoto Lane
  2. matches the title of
  3. Kyoto,
  4. which is in the country
  5. Japan

12 roads 4 counties ~2.1M views last year

Kyoto

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Most popular: Osaka Court

  1. Osaka Court
  2. matches the title of
  3. Osaka,
  4. which is in the country
  5. Japan

4 roads 4 counties ~2M views last year

Osaka

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Most popular: Hiroshima Street

  1. Hiroshima Street
  2. matches the title of
  3. Hiroshima,
  4. which is in the country
  5. Japan

1 road 1 county ~1.6M views last year

Hiroshima

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Most popular: Sapporo Way

  1. Sapporo Way
  2. matches the name of
  3. Sapporo,
  4. which is in the country
  5. Japan

8 roads 5 counties ~1.5M views last year

Sapporo

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Most popular: Yokohama Court

  1. Yokohama Court
  2. matches the name of
  3. Yokohama,
  4. which is in the country
  5. Japan

14 roads 3 counties ~1.4M views last year

Yokohama

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Least popular: Maki

  1. Maki
  2. matches the name of
  3. Maki,
  4. which is in the country
  5. Japan

62 roads 30 counties ~8k views last year

Maki, Niigata (Nishikanbara)

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Least popular: Kaigan Street

  1. Kaigan Street
  2. matches the name of
  3. Kaigan,
  4. which is in the country
  5. Japan

1 road 1 county ~9.5k views last year

Kaigan

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Least popular: Ikawa Place

  1. Ikawa Place
  2. matches the name of
  3. Ikawa,
  4. which is in the country
  5. Japan

1 road 1 county ~9.6k views last year

Ikawa, Akita

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Least popular: Tano Road

  1. Tano Road
  2. matches the name of
  3. Tano,
  4. which is in the country
  5. Japan

29 roads 13 counties ~10k views last year

Tano, Kōchi

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Least popular: Kotake Court

  1. Kotake Court
  2. matches the name of
  3. Kotake,
  4. which is in the country
  5. Japan

1 road 1 county ~11.1k views last year

Kotake, Fukuoka

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Least popular: Yura Way

  1. Yura Way
  2. matches the name of
  3. Yura,
  4. which is in the country
  5. Japan

1 road 1 county ~12.1k views last year

Yura, Wakayama

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

all but the most common: all the streets, minus the most common roads in the country. This lets us see the 'long tail' of interesting roads in the country.