Abusive Wayspots from Shinjuku Station to Odakyu Southern Tower
Hi, @NianticGiffard .
First of all, I would like to explain that this is not a story about one Wayspot.
What I'm going to talk about is a series of abuses that have been occurring around the exits of Shinjuku station.
For your information, Shinjuku station is the busiest station in the world according to Guinness World Records in 2018, with an average of 3.59 million passengers per day.
Busiest station | Guinness World Records
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/busiest-station
The place we are going to report on is the area around the two huge buildings, the JR East Head Office Building and the Odakyu Southern Tower.
For more than seven years this area has been the site of an annual event named "Shinjuku Creators Festa".
Almost all of these exhibits are temporary and are removed from their locations after the event.
We can count only one that is still in place after several years.
Please see the following URL
"For the first time, Shinjuku Creators' Festa 2015 has used Ingress to register each artwork as a portal!
This is the first time we have used Ingress to register each artwork.
And, by AG, also held the First Saturday event.
At the time, I was surprised by the sudden appearance of these things.
They were only temporary exhibits.
Back in 2015, volunteers, including myself, were so surprised by the appearance of Wayspot that we requested that they be removed. Some of them were removed immediately.
However, many of the temporary exhibits have remained at Lightship since then and have not been removed.
Wayfinders at the time who made Wayspots out of items that were only on display during the Creators' Festa.
It seems that they left them there for a long time without applying for their removal.
Now, they are occupied by AGs in Intgress, and gyms and Pokéstops in Pokémon GO.
In addition to those, they are now even duplicating existing Wayspots and spoofing their locations, which is where we report this time.
(What's the fun in playing a location-based game with something that doesn't exist in that location?
I can't understand their thinking at all.)
Sorry for the delay.
Let's take a look at them for you.
Location map as at 23 January 2022
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(1)
Title of the Wayspot:好き。嫌い。
Location:35.686989,139.700586
City: 2 Yoyogi, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Country:Japan
Please see the following Google Street View.
At that time, it was only displayed between these two pillars. It is no longer on display.
Note that the pin position is not even in the building. It is on the street.
And it seems that some people play in places where things that don't exist are Wayspot.
(2)
Title of the Wayspot:ペンギン
Location:35.6867,139.700694
City: 2 Yoyogi, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Country:Japan
The columns and stairs in the Wayspot photo are identical to those in the following Google Street View.
The object is no longer on display.
The only thing on display is a houseplant (lol).
It's a trivial thing, but, horror of horrors, This pin position on the street,too.
(3)
Title of the Wayspot:South Court figure
Location:35.686643,139.700325
City: 2 Yoyogi, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Country:Japan
It does not exist.
(4)
Title of the Wayspot:のび
Location:35.686839,139.700198
City: 2 Yoyogi, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Country:Japan
Google Street View
A convenience store called 7-Eleven opened next to this down escalator after the portal photo was taken.
In the back of the picture you can see the circular entrance, the pillars inside
The down escalator and the tiles on the floor.
Please pay attention to the position of these.
What follows is an illegal reproduction and falsification of the position of a single bronze statue.
There is only one correct bronze statue in existence.
And one of the most egregious is the creation of a fake Wayspot with a false location in the immediate vicinity of (1) to (4) above.
I'll tell you more about it now.
The following PDF is published by JR East Japan Railway Company on 6 July 2016.
It introduces the installation of a bronze statue of "Suica のペンギン".
There is only one bronze statue.
The location of the statue is indicated by a red square in item 1.
(This is the location at the time of publication in 2016.
The location as of 2021 can be seen on Google Street View (I'll explain later.).
And in item 3 of the PDF, "(10) Suicaのペンギン像" is different from the "Suica のペンギン" bronze statue.
In item 3 of the PDF, (10) is noted that the statue is a limited time exhibit.
As noted in the aforementioned PDF, there is only one bronze statue named "Suicaのペンギン(Suica no Penguin)".
On 22 January 2022, I photographed this bronze statue and also took a Google Street View of it, which you can see here.
(You can see where the statue is now,by GPS tag, )
Google Street View
I took a Google Street View of the area on 22 January and check it on IntelMap on 23 January. The Wayspot was located as shown in the above figure "Location map as at 23 January 2022".
The title and location information at that time are as follows
(5)
Title of the Wayspot:Suicaのペンギン
Location:35.687856,139.701896
(6)
Title of the Wayspot:Suicaのペンギン
Location:35.688102,139.70115
(7)
Title of the Wayspot:Suicaのペンギン
Location:35.687256,139.700582
(8)
Title of the Wayspot:suicaペンギン像
Location:35.68799,139.700862
(9)
Title of the Wayspot:Suicaのペンギン
Location:35.687842,139.701144
(10)
Title of the Wayspot:Suicaのペンギン像
Location:35.687933,139.701059
The one closest to the real position is No. (9).
However, it still seems to be a little west of the real position.
This street view
The building with the distinctive façade can be seen in photos (5) and (7).
It can be seen on the far right.
Based on other street views taken in the vicinity around 2018, and information(*PDF) from 2016 when the bronze statue was installed, we can infer that
It is likely that this Wayspot existed slightly further west in the past than the current location of the bronze statue.
Nevertheless, the positions (5) to (9) are not all correct.
Even if we consider the position of the bronze statue in relation to the distinctive outer wall of the building in the Wayspot photograph
(The positions of (5) and (7) are off by 100m and 50m respectively. I believe that this is a deliberate act of displacement and abuse.
Here's an email I received on 24 January.
This is the result of my request to remove the "Suicaのペンギン像"(Suica penguin statue) after reporting it as a duplicate.
It says "Approved" in Japanese.
As a result
(10)
Title of the Wayspot:Suicaのペンギン像
Location:35.687933,139.701059
has been removed.
However, there are still several fakes with fake locations.
Location map as at 26 January 2022
Please remove these multiple way spots that are inappropriate.
Best regards.
By the way, for your information.
This is a year earlier than Shinjuku Creators Festa 2015, which I mentioned at the beginning of this report.
There are some things that were wayspotted at Shinjuku Creators Festa 2014.
Location:35.690551, 139.695801
A temporary exhibit, registered on Wayspot under the name "ある惑星の住人 モスキート".(mean "Mosquito, inhabitant of a planet")
This mosquito is now removed.
In Wayspot, which existed right next to Mosquito.
The title was "ある惑星の住人 スカラベ”(mean "Scarab, inhabitant of a planet").
I removed this one in January last year.
In fact, it took me seven years to finally get Wayspot Removed!
It took a long time.
It is unfortunate, but there are many other Wayspots around Shinjuku Station that do not exist, such as shops that do not exist, or the outside walls of gambling parlours that have been turned become Wayspots.
Comments
We have reviewed the report and have taken action on the 9 Wayspots in accordance with our policies.
In order to remove the Wayspot "South Court figure" we would need additional evidence (geotagged images, photospheres). Hence, if you may share additional information at your convenience, we can proceed to review the Wayspot in question.
Good evening, @NianticGiffard .
Your work is very careful and sincere. I'm very impressed with it.
Thank you very much.
I'm very happy to know that I'm getting my message across to you correctly.
Well, the weather forecast for Tokyo is calling for a rare snowfall tomorrow.
I'm going to do some more **** around the "South Court figure" in the next week or so when the weather is better.
Hello, @NianticGiffard . @NianticVK .
Thanks for the other day.
This week we've been blessed with cold but nice weather here too,
so I've been investigating the inside and outside of the building I told you about the other day.
I was surprised to see that there were two Wayspots around the building,
one on the ”イーストデッキ(East Deck)" and one on the "ウェストデッキ(West Deck)".
It's just a walkway.
I think it's just a hindrance to people walking down the street that the aisle is a wayspot.
:-<
Title:イーストデッキ
Location:35.68689,139.700903
Title:ウェストデッキ
Location:35.686741,139.699919
That's enough preamble for now.
(1)
This next Wayspot is another one that was only on display during the Shinjuku Creators Festa.
Naturally, it no longer exists in this location.
Title:ブロックモニュメント
Location:35.68626,139.700782
Photos taken on site:
Google Street View
(2)
Then there is the next Wayspot which exists to the southwest of (1) "Title:ブロックモニュメント".
However, the original location is not at this point.
It was created with the position shifted more than 20m to the northwest.
Please fix it to the correct location.
Title:ピンクの象のネオン
Location:35.685993,139.700586
The subject Wayspot is a sign of a restaurant named "Petit Délirium Tap Café".
It is a sign of a restaurant serving Belgian beer.
Official website URL
Map URL:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Petit+D%C3%A9lirium+Tap+Caf%C3%A9+Shinjuku/@35.685909,139.70079,21z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x803c8312aaf20d28!8m2!3d35.68591!4d139.700767?hl=en
As for where to fix it, the Map on the official website of this shop will serve you well!
And just to be sure.
Please take a look at the street view that I have taken at the site.
And here are some photos that I have taken on site.
In my opinion, it is possible that someone has deliberately shifted the position of the building so that it is in-range from Odakyu Southern Tower.
(3)
Title:新宿サザンテラス案内図
Location:35.685842,139.700838
According to Google Maps, the Wayspot is located in the planting to the south of the "Petit Délirium Tap Café", the shop referred to in (2) above.
However, this location is false.
Google Street View
There is no object in the place of the planting.
And see also the following Google Street View and photos.
Where the pin is placed, the upper part is the aforementioned planting. The lower part is the railway track.
Of course, as you can see, the object does not exist in that place.
I then searched the area.
As a result, I have found the right place where the object is.
I will inform you.
Please see the following Google Street View.
The correct location for this Wayspot is between the trees and the car park.
I've taken a photo of this too, just in case you want to check the geotagging.
The actual position and the falsified current position are more than 20 metres apart.
This Wayspot should be repositioned to the correct location.
Based on the above In our opinion, the person who applied for this Wayspot falsified their location from the actual location to a location closer to Odakyu Southern Tower.
(4)
Title:JR東日本本社ビル
Location:35.687329,139.700373
As the title says, Wayspot is the headquarters building of one of Japan's railway companies, JR East.
However, for some reason, the photo shows two penguins in front of the building.
It's cute, but that's not the actual location of the building.
It's obvious to anyone who looks at the photo that it's not the building but the pavement in front of it that's been set as the pin position.
I have taken a Google Street View at the site.
It seems that the two penguins in the photo were only temporary exhibits.
If this building is to be a Wayspot, as the Wayspot title suggests, then I think that instead of setting the pin on the footpath, the location should be modified to the building itself.
Giffard, what do you think?
Let me know your thoughts.
Lastly, I would like to talk about the Wayspot "South Court figure" that I was telling you about last time.
As a result of my fieldwork over three days, I have taken numerous photographs and Google Street View.
(5)
Title:South Court figure
Location:35.686643,139.700325
I had it removed based on that information,
by a Chat representative.
I am pleased to know that the System is working properly.
However, Wayspot has only been removed on PokemonGO.
In Ingress it still exists.
I have also noticed a problem with Lightship synchronisation in ingress since the end of last month.
And I am aware that you guys are in the middle of an urgent response.
I hope that the out-of-sync issue will be resolved soon and that all apps, including ingress, will reflect the removal.
I know you guys are very busy.
Keep up the good work!
:-)
Hello, @NianticGiffard . @NianticVK .
Thanks for the other day.
This week we've been blessed with cold but nice weather here too,
so I've been investigating the inside and outside of the building I told you about the other day.
I was surprised to see that there were two Wayspots around the building,
one on the ”イーストデッキ(East Deck)" and one on the "ウェストデッキ(West Deck)".
It's just a walkway.
I think it's just a hindrance to people walking down the street that the aisle is a wayspot.
:-<
Title:イーストデッキ
Location:35.68689,139.700903
Title:ウェストデッキ
Location:35.686741,139.699919
That's enough preamble for now.
(1)
This next Wayspot is another one that was only on display during the Shinjuku Creators Festa.
Naturally, it no longer exists in this location.
Title:ブロックモニュメント
Location:35.68626,139.700782
Photos taken on site:
Google Street View
(2)
Then there is the next Wayspot which exists to the southwest of (1) "Title:ブロックモニュメント".
However, the original location is not at this point.
It was created with the position shifted more than 20m to the northwest.
Please fix it to the correct location.
Title:ピンクの象のネオン
Location:35.685993,139.700586
The subject Wayspot is a sign of a restaurant named "Petit Délirium Tap Café".
It is a sign of a restaurant serving Belgian beer.
Official website URL
Map URL:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Petit+D%C3%A9lirium+Tap+Caf%C3%A9+Shinjuku/@35.685909,139.70079,21z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x803c8312aaf20d28!8m2!3d35.68591!4d139.700767?hl=en
As for where to fix it, the Map on the official website of this shop will serve you well!
And just to be sure.
Please take a look at the street view that I have taken at the site.
And here are some photos that I have taken on site.
In my opinion, it is possible that someone has deliberately shifted the position of the building so that it is in-range from Odakyu Southern Tower.
(3)
Title:新宿サザンテラス案内図
Location:35.685842,139.700838
According to Google Maps, the Wayspot is located in the planting to the south of the "Petit Délirium Tap Café", the shop referred to in (2) above.
However, this location is false.
Google Street View
There is no object in the place of the planting.
And see also the following Google Street View and photos.
Where the pin is placed, the upper part is the aforementioned planting. The lower part is the railway track.
Of course, as you can see, the object does not exist in that place.
I then searched the area.
As a result, I have found the right place where the object is.
I will inform you.
Please see the following Google Street View.
The correct location for this Wayspot is between the trees and the car park.
I've taken a photo of this too, just in case you want to check the geotagging.
The actual position and the falsified current position are more than 20 metres apart.
This Wayspot should be repositioned to the correct location.
Based on the above In our opinion, the person who applied for this Wayspot falsified their location from the actual location to a location closer to Odakyu Southern Tower.
(4)
Title:JR東日本本社ビル
Location:35.687329,139.700373
As the title says, Wayspot is the headquarters building of one of Japan's railway companies, JR East.
However, for some reason, the photo shows two penguins in front of the building.
It's cute, but that's not the actual location of the building.
It's obvious to anyone who looks at the photo that it's not the building but the pavement in front of it that's been set as the pin position.
I have taken a Google Street View at the site.
It seems that the two penguins in the photo were only temporary exhibits.
If this building is to be a Wayspot, as the Wayspot title suggests, then I think that instead of setting the pin on the footpath, the location should be modified to the building itself.
Giffard, what do you think?
Let me know your thoughts.
Lastly, I would like to talk about the Wayspot "South Court figure" that I was telling you about last time.
As a result of my fieldwork over three days, I have taken numerous photographs and Google Street View.
(5)
Title:South Court figure
Location:35.686643,139.700325
I had it removed based on that information,
by a Chat representative.
I am pleased to know that the System is working properly.
However, Wayspot has only been removed on PokemonGO.
In Ingress it still exists.
I have also noticed a problem with Lightship synchronisation in ingress since the end of last month.
And I am aware that you guys are in the middle of an urgent response.
I hope that the out-of-sync issue will be resolved soon and that all apps, including ingress, will reflect the removal.
I know you guys are very busy.
Keep up the good work!
:-)
Hi, @NianticGiffard , @NianticVK .
Wayspot (1) 'Title:ブロックモニュメント', which was still present when I checked last Friday, has been removed when I checked it locally.
And you also corrected the location of (2) 'Title:ピンクの象のネオン' and (3) 'Title:新宿サザンテラス案内図'?
Your comments to me have not yet been noted here, but thank you very much.
I will continue to conduct surveys in different parts of the country to maintain the quality of Wayspot.
Thank you!
Hello @MagicalThorn-ING! We have reviewed the report and taken action on the Wayspots. However, the Wayspot "JR東日本本社ビ" does not meet our criteria for removal at this time.
Thankyou,Giffard!