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Kokudo DB Turns an Address Into a Civic Dossier

kokudodb.com ↗ · Civic & Public Life · score 84.0
○Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content ✦Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation ◆Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature ◇Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case ◉Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

A Japanese public-data service that turns an address into information about zoning, land prices, population, planning, schools, medical facilities, and elevation.

Why it surfaced

Kokudo DB makes government geodata legible in everyday terms, covering 1,898 municipalities and showing details such as zoning ratios, land-price movement, projected population, and urban-planning records. It also exposes seven API endpoints, OpenAPI documentation, and an MCP interface—while plainly stating that it is a private beta service, not a government site.

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The Song Resumes After the Story

August 19’s newborn domains include a Hawaiʻi road-trip radio that resumes each song after a GPS-triggered story, an offline Chattanooga recovery map, a 100 KiB operating system running Doom, and an archive of 169,588 Discord roleplay messages.

This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-19 Domain Arrivals issue.

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