About This App

[Completely Free & Ad-Free] Make your road trips safer and more fulfilling.
CarCamp is a convenient tool to enhance the safety of your relaxed road trips and enrich the experience itself. It combines pinpoint weather forecasts to flexibly decide your destination based on the weather, a search function for rest and nap spots, and tide, itinerary, packing list, and budget management—all in one place.

"I want to decide my destination freely based on the weather and my mood while staying overnight in my car."
"I want to find a safe place to take a nap or rest."
"I want to enjoy nearby day-trip hot springs, scenic spots, and local cuisine."
"I'm worried about temperature drops at high altitudes, and heavy rain and strong winds."
"I also want to know about nearby festivals, fireworks, and events."
"I want accurate tide tables for night fishing and clam digging."

To meet the concerns and diverse needs of car camping and casual travel users, CarCamp has compiled comprehensive information on approximately 17,000 tourist resources and hot springs nationwide, based on official data from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, in addition to roadside stations and service/parking areas across the country. From pinpoint weather forecasts with altitude correction, Japan Meteorological Agency warnings and dangerous weather alerts, full-fledged tide tables for 85 major ports nationwide, nearby event searches, a travel scheduler, and budget management, CarCamp fully supports your carefree car camping trip, allowing you to flexibly rearrange your itinerary according to the weather and your mood.

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✨ What you can do with CarCamp
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📍 1. Search for roadside stations, service areas/parking areas where you can take a nap & information on tourist resources and hot springs nationwide (fully offline compatible)
- Covers all roadside stations, highway service areas/parking areas, and other locations where you can take a nap or rest 24 hours a day
- Standard equipped with data on approximately 17,000 tourist resources and famous places nationwide based on national land numerical information
- ♨️ Hot springs and day-trip bathing facilities / ⛰️ Nature, scenic spots, and spectacular views
- ⛩️ Shrines, temples, and historical spots / 🎪 Leisure and experience facilities / 🍽️ Local Cuisine
- Switch categories with one tap using the map filter (settings are automatically saved)
- All data is stored within the app, allowing for completely offline searching even in mountainous or coastal areas with poor signal reception.
- You can also check facility information such as toilets, Wi-Fi, parking lot size, and EV chargers, and it integrates smoothly with Google Maps.

🌤️ 2. Pinpoint Weather Forecast & Altitude Correction Function for Flexible Decision-Making of Overnight Stays in Your Car
- Displays temperature, humidity, wind speed, wind direction, and precipitation for your current location and destination hourly. Supports flexible itinerary creation unique to overnight stays in your car, allowing you to change your destination and length of stay on the spot while checking the weather.
- The altitude correction function automatically calculates the temperature drop according to altitude (approximately 0.6℃ for every 100m) in plateaus and mountainous areas. You can accurately understand "how cold it will actually get at the location."

🚨 3. Official Japan Meteorological Agency Warnings & Advisories & Dangerous Weather Alerts for Overnight Stays in Your Car
- Real-time reflection of warnings and advisories issued by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) for heavy rain, strong winds, heavy snow, freezing, etc.
- Automatically detects dangers specific to overnight stays in your car and displays safety measures, such as "extreme heat" to warn of heatstroke risk, "extreme cold" to encourage cold protection, "strong winds" to warn of car shaking, and "heavy rain" to warn of flooding.

🌅 4. Stargazing Index, Moon Phase & Full-Scale Tide Graphs (Tide Tables) for 85 Major Ports Nationwide
- Displays a stargazing index that shows the visibility of the night sky based on cloud cover and moon phase.
- Built-in tidal constants for 85 major ports nationwide based on data from the Japan Meteorological Agency and Japan Coast Guard, making it a tide table function for overnight stays and road trips.
- Automatically determines the nearest port (Choshi, Shimoda, Kushimoto, Wajima, Hakata, etc.) from your current location or destination.
- Faithfully reproduces the characteristics of sea areas such as the large tidal range on the Pacific side, the small tidal range on the Sea of ​​Japan side, and the Ariake Sea.
- Calculates high and low tide times and 24-hour tidal level changes in minute increments, completely offline.
- Automatically hides tidal level displays in inland areas for a clean screen.
- Useful for night fishing, clam digging, and photography of seascapes, torii gates, and tidal flats.

🎪 5. Search for nearby events, festivals, and tourist information (JAPAN 47 GO search link)
- Search for events and festivals near your destination with a single tap.
- Smooth link to the official search of the nationwide travel information site "JAPAN 47 GO" (Japan Tourism Promotion Association).
- Flexible search options based on city/town/prefecture, planned stay duration (3 days/1 week/1 month/unspecified), and category (festivals, illuminations, flowers, free input). Conditions are automatically saved.

📅 6. Flexible Car Camping Itinerary Scheduler
- Manage your destinations, planned rest stops, and travel plans for each day in a timeline. You can also check the weather forecast for each location on the spot, allowing you to flexibly rearrange your car camping plans.

🎒 7. Car Camping Packing Checklist & 💰 8. Travel Budget & Expense Management
- Prevent forgetting to prepare necessary items for car camping, such as warm clothing and portable power supplies.
- Smartly record expenses such as gasoline and highway tolls.

🆘 9. Useful for Car Evacuation During Disasters
- Quickly search for nearby safe roadside stations, service areas, and parking areas in emergencies. Includes information on cold/heat countermeasures during evacuation and displays SOS contact information.

🗺️ 10. Navigation App Integration & 📤 11. Travel Plan Sharing & Saving
- Start navigation with one tap to Google Maps, etc. Supports text sharing and JSON backup of itineraries

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🌐 Reliable Data Sources & Disclaimer
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• Weather Warnings and Advisories: Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) Official Disaster Prevention Weather Information Data
• Pinpoint Weather and Elevation Correction: Open-Meteo API (Digital Elevation Model and Weather Forecast Data)
• Roadside Stations, Service Areas/Parking Areas, and Other Rest Stop Data: OpenStreetMap Community Data (ODbL)
• Tourism Resources, Hot Springs, and Landmarks Data: Processed data from "National Land Numerical Information (Tourism Resource Data)" (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism)
Original Source: Japan Travel Bureau Foundation "Tourism Resource Register", Japan Tourism Agency "List of Tourist Spots, etc." (Approval Number) (Heisei 26 Information Use, No. 441)
* Search for nearby events and festivals: Official web search link to the nationwide travel information site "JAPAN 47 GO" (Japan Tourism Promotion Association)
* Tide, tide tables, and astronomical calculations: Nationwide master data for 85 ports based on tide gauge data from the Japan Meteorological Agency and the Japan Coast Guard (fully offline on-device calculation)

* The information published in this application is based on public and open data, etc. The developers cannot be held responsible for the latest conditions or accuracy at the site.
* Tourism resource data is based on publicly available information as of 2014. Please check official websites, etc. in advance for the latest conditions.
* Tidal information is estimated values ​​based on harmonic constants for 85 major ports nationwide. Please use official tide tables for navigation purposes, etc.

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・Those who want to freely decide their destination while staying overnight in their car, those who prefer a free-style, spontaneous trip
・Those who want to safely find a place to take a nap or rest
・Those who want to enjoy day trips to hot springs, scenic spots, and local cuisine
・Those who want to enjoy festivals, fireworks, and seasonal events around their travel destination without missing anything
・Those who enjoy night fishing along the coast For those who enjoy clam digging and taking photos using tide tables
- For those who want to enjoy car camping and auto camping while respecting manners
- For those who want to take proper precautions against cold and heat in mountainous areas at high altitudes
- For those who want to drive safely by quickly detecting weather warnings and sudden bad weather
- For those who want to be prepared for car evacuation in the event of a disaster

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🔒 Consideration for Privacy
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- Location information is used only for obtaining weather forecasts and searching nearby areas, and no personal information is transmitted to external servers.
- Supports dark mode for easy viewing even at night

Let's enjoy a carefree car camping trip while respecting manners with CarCamp. Download it now and use it to enhance your travels!