# Footscroll - Japanese Steps — Walk Japan with Edo Charm

> Walk Japan with Edo Charm (iPhone/iPad app by Isao Yamaguchi.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/footscroll-japanese-steps/id6759491044 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Isao Yamaguchi](https://appshunter.io/developer/1538751336)
- Category: Health & Fitness, Lifestyle
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 13 MB
- Languages: English, Japanese
- Released: 2026-02-26
- Data updated: 2026-08-05
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/footscroll-japanese-steps/id6759491044/reviews.md

## What is Footscroll?

Every step you take writes a new page in a 200-year-old story.

Footscroll turns your daily walk into the legendary journey of Ino Tadataka — the Edo-period cartographer who spent 17 years walking Japan's entire coastline to create the nation's first accurate map.

■ Ino Tadataka's Dream
Your steps fuel a tiny surveyor's progress along Japan's 40,000 km coastline. Watch him walk across Honshu, Hokkaido, Shikoku, Kyushu, and beyond — all rendered on aged washi paper with sumi ink, just like the original Ino maps. The further you walk in real life, the more of Japan unfolds before you.

■ Charts That Tell a Story
Track your steps across four time scales — day, week, month, and year. A prediction bar shows whether you're on pace to hit today's goal. A heatmap calendar paints your active days in shades of green.

■ Gold Leaf Celebration
Hit your daily goal and gold leaf drifts across the screen — a quiet, beautiful moment of celebration. Your consecutive streak is tracked too, keeping you motivated day after day.

■ Washi, Sumi, Indigo
This isn't just another step counter. Footscroll is crafted with the aesthetics of traditional Japanese art: washi paper textures, sumi ink coastlines, indigo ocean gradients, and old province names written in classical vertical script. Every screen feels like holding a piece of Edo-era cartography.

■ Your Data Stays Yours
Steps are read from Apple Health. Everything is stored on your device. Nothing leaves your phone. Ever.

Key features:
• Step ring with daily goal tracking
• Ino Tadataka's Dream — coastline survey mode
• Day / week / month / year step charts
• Step heatmap calendar
• Pace comparison vs. yesterday
• Consecutive goal streak
• Gold leaf celebration animation
• Japanese & English

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Remove Ads | $3.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.5.0 — 2026-08-02

What's New

NEW
- Add steps manually — you can now add steps you took without your phone. Added steps are saved to Apple Health and can be removed anytime from within the app.

IMPROVED
- Your "Ino Tadataka's Dream" survey progress now carries over even if you reinstall the app
- Smoother, more natural step-count animation on the ring

### 1.4.0 — 2026-06-13

A major update to make walking more fun!

NEW
- Province arrival celebration — entering a new historic province is now honored with a travel-pass ceremony and a survey journal entry
- Province Collection — collect the provinces you pass through, like a pilgrimage stamp book
- Live steps on Lock Screen — today's steps and the distance to the next province, automatically shown on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island
- Notifications — a heads-up when the next province is close, and an evening reminder before your streak breaks (can be turned off in Settings)
- Today's March — today's walk is drawn in vermillion on the survey map
- Rest Pass — once a month, a missed day no longer breaks your streak

IMPROVED
- Better English localization
- Lock Screen widgets are now unified into the live steps display

### 1.3.0 — 2026-04-13

v1.3.0 — Introducing the Survey Journal

Your footsteps now become history.

• Survey Journal
  A timeline of every ancient province you've walked through.
  Arrival date, steps, distance, days stayed — and a hand-drawn
  sumi-e painting with a short diary entry for each region.

• 34 New Sumi-e Illustrations
  From Hokkaido's snowy coast to Kyushu's volcanoes.

• Two-Tab View
  Switch seamlessly between the Survey Map and the new Journal.

• Faster & Unified
  The Journal opens instantly. Map and Journal now share a single
  source of truth, so province names always match.

Walk the coast of ancient Japan, one step at a time.

### 1.2.1 — 2026-03-21

Fixed steps-to-next-province display bug
Improved layout for Ino Tadataka's Dream

### 1.2.0 — 2026-03-14

Fix country display bug
Fix Yesterday and last week's pacer bug
Add zoom feature to survey map

## More apps by Isao Yamaguchi

- [Calc Ball](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/calc-ball/id1539312512)
- [Tashitama - Calc Ball Puzzle](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tashitama-calc-ball-puzzle/id1539542902)
- [Reversi Trio: 3-Player](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/reversi-trio-3-player/id6759812198)
- [Leg Scroll - Squat Counter](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/leg-scroll-squat-counter/id6760250714)
- [Wakeikoku - Japanese Scenery](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wakeikoku-japanese-scenery/id6760963560)

All apps by Isao Yamaguchi: https://appshunter.io/developer/1538751336

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