About Michi-no-Eki Stamps
Michi-no-Eki Stamps is a digital backup of your real stamp book — the physical rubber stamps you collect by hand at 道の駅 (michi-no-eki, “roadside stations”) and at NEXCO expressway service areas and parking areas (SA/PA) across Japan. Every check-in here is a photo of the actual stamp you pressed, not just a checkbox, so what builds up in the app is a lasting digital copy of the same stamp rally (スタンプラリー) you’re already keeping on paper — and it’s one of the few trackers that covers both michi-no-eki and highway SA/PA stamps together, so a whole road trip fits in one logbook.
Questions or feedback: michinoeki.stamps@gmail.com
What is a michi-no-eki?
道の駅 (michi-no-eki, literally “road station”) is a nationwide network of officially registered roadside stations across Japan, each run locally and usually combining a rest stop, local produce and souvenirs, and a facility-specific rubber stamp. Collecting a stamp from every michi-no-eki you visit is a popular pastime for Japanese road trippers, and NEXCO’s expressway service areas (SA) and parking areas (PA) run a similar Highway Stamp program of their own along the toll expressway network.
A photo, not a checkbox
Most stamp-tracking apps just let you mark a point as visited. Here, checking in means uploading a photo of the stamp itself — the same ink you’d press into a paper stamp book. That photo is the proof, and your check-ins together form a digital stamp book that mirrors your real one: the same stops, the same stamps, kept as a backup that won’t fade, get left behind in a glovebox, or run out of pages.
Michi-no-eki and SA/PA, together
道の駅 stamps and NEXCO’s SA/PA highway stamps are technically two separate collecting traditions, run by different organizations — most apps only track one or the other. This one puts both on the same map, with the same photo check-in and the same visited/not-visited view, so a single road trip doesn’t need two apps, or two paper books, to keep track of it.
What you can do here
Browse a map of michi-no-eki and SA/PA stamp locations, filtered by region or by type. Check in at a point with a photo of the stamp you collected and an optional comment. See which points you’ve already visited versus which are still open, both on the map and broken down by prefecture in your own profile.
Coverage
Covers all 47 prefectures of Japan.
Who made this
Michi-no-Eki Stamps is a personal, non-commercial project built and run by an individual developer, not affiliated with 全国「道の駅」連絡会, NEXCO, or any michi-no-eki or SA/PA operator. It started as a way to keep track of stamps collected in person while driving around Japan, since the usual options were a paper stamp book or nothing at all.