A generated site, not a hand-built one

Every guide on this site starts life as a simple, structured content file, which is then combined with a shared set of page templates to produce the final page. That separation is what lets the site cover this much ground — hundreds of pages across nine departments and two languages — without the navigation, sitemap and search index drifting out of sync with each other.

Why that matters for readers

In practice, it means every page shares the same structure, the same navigation, and the same baseline standard of quality — a guide to a quiet residential district follows the same template as a guide to Osaka Castle. Nothing on the site is a rushed afterthought bolted onto a different system.