We came across this great visualisation of Japan’s music scene, laid out as the Tokyo Subway map. Complete with all the notable names across the years from the Japanese music scene, the map plots artists as the stations and the different lines as the different genre’s of music. Click on the image below to explore in more detail.
This is a pretty cool visual for the J-Pop aficionado, and shows that there is a little more to the Japanese music scene than cute girl bands and manufactured pop. It also reminds us of the amazing Web Trend map produced by iA, which plots the Internet’s leading names and domains onto the Tokyo Metro map.
Tip of the hat to @Durf for the discovery tweet.
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Darrell is a native of the U.K. and has been in Japan since 2002. He consults on innovation and strategy at the 
This was done a while ago in Spain: http://graficos.lainformacion.com/arte-cultura-y-espectaculos/musica-rock-and-roll/el-mapa-de-metro-del-indie-espanol_W8ZtXUdjluWQOpQ8EWz8m6/