I Compared All 20 Stops
I wanted data, not just one bad experience. I compared where Google Maps puts every one of the 20 stops with their actual coordinates.
What happened to me was one stop. I wanted to know whether that was bad luck or a real, systemic problem.
The method was simple. Just as a traveler would standing near a stop, I searched Google Maps for each stop's name and measured the distance between where it pointed and where the stop actually is. All 20 City View stops.
First, the "actual coordinates" had to be trustworthy. I checked them against the stop coordinates published by the Kagoshima City Transportation Bureau, and all 20 matched.
Results (as of July 20, 2026)
- 12 stops: under 50 m — effectively the same spot
- 4 stops: 50–100 m — about a minute's walk off
- 4 stops: 100 m or more. The worst was Ijinkan Mae (Iso Beach), 220 m off
There was a surprise, too. The Tenmonkan stop where I got lost in May was only 86 m off this time. Google Maps may have changed in between — which means its locations can shift over time. So I decided to repeat the check every quarter and publish the results.
A hundred meters sounds short. But when you're searching for a stop in an unfamiliar town, it's more than enough to miss a bus that only comes every 30 minutes.
The results for every stop are published on the Google Maps comparison page.