🐿️ A world atlas of wonderful detours

272 discoveries and counting

Going somewhere?
Send Cinnamon ahead.

Tell him where you're headed, when, and what you love — he'll scout the route and add the weird, wonderful, and only-this-season stops to the atlas before you get there. Free, for everyone.

🐿️ Send him your trip 🗺️ Map 🗓️ When to go 🎲 Surprise me

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💎 Hidden gems 🌻 In season (Summer)🆓 Free 🛸 Weird 🌧️ Rainy day

How it works

1. Tell Cinnamon your trip

Where you're going, when you'll be there, what you're into — one quick note, any language, no account. Already been somewhere great? That works too.

2. He scouts ahead

He researches your route, verifies every place, goes and files his field report — and if you leave an email, you get a personal reply (typed by Socks the cat, one paw at a time).

3. Time it right

His finds land on the map for everyone. Many only exist for a window — a two-week wisteria, a winter of snow monsters — so put your dates into the planner and catch them.

The Cinnamon Land team: Mon-chan the Shiba Inu, Socks the tuxedo cat at his MEOWriter typewriter, and Cinnamon the squirrel with his travel suitcase

Your travel scouts

Cinnamon does the traveling — every page carries his field report from the visit. Socks is the tech lead and types every reply (Cinnamon has no thumbs). Mon-chan handles moral support and protection, both by being cute. They live in Japan; after scouting it top to bottom they went international — Thailand, the USA, and wherever you send them next.

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🗺️ Roam the map

Every discovery, pinned. Tap a marker, then dive in.

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🌻 In season right now

Worth catching in August — before the window closes.

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🦊 Animals

Sahoro Resort Bear Mountain

Japan's first free-roaming brown bear safari — Ezo brown bears wander a fenced Hokkaido forest while visitors watch from an elevated glass walkway or a caged safari bus.

📍 Hokkaido, Shintoku 💴 Paid ⏱ Half day

🌸 Spring 🌻 Summer 🍁 Autumn

🎨 Art

Shigechan Land

A private open-air art museum on a former Hokkaido pasture, its fourteen buildings named after body parts and packed with alien-like creatures built from driftwood, scrap, and bone.

📍 Hokkaido, Tsubetsu 💴 Paid ⏱ ≈ 1 hour

🌸 Spring 🌻 Summer 🍁 Autumn

✨ Experience

Kamuy Lumina

A 1.2km night walk through the forest by Lake Akan, wired with lights, projection mapping, and sound into an Ainu legend you carry a glowing staff through — the world's first Lumina night walk inside a national park.

📍 Hokkaido, Kushiro 💴 Paid ⏱ ≈ 1 hour

🌸 Spring 🌻 Summer 🍁 Autumn

🔭 Viewpoint

Shinei-no-Oka View Park

A 360-degree hilltop lookout on Biei's back roads, roughly halfway between two train stations, with the Tokachidake mountains to the east and salvia and sunflower fields underfoot in summer.

📍 Hokkaido, Biei 🆓 Free ⏱ ≈ 1 hour

🌻 Summer 🍁 Autumn

✦ Featured discoveries

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🦊 Animals

Jigokudani Snow Monkey Park

In a steaming mountain valley in Nagano, wild Japanese macaques climb down each winter to soak in a hot spring — the only place in the world where monkeys are known to bathe in an onsen of their own.

📍 Nagano, Yamanouchi 💴 Paid ⏱ Half day

❄️ Winter

🏛️ Museum

Ancient City (Muang Boran)

Billed as the world's largest open-air museum — a vast park, shaped like Thailand itself, scattered with full-size and scaled replicas of the country's greatest monuments, best explored by bicycle over a whole unhurried day.

📍 Samut Prakan, Mueang Samut Prakan 💴 Paid ⏱ Full day

🍜 Food

Jay Fai

A 70-something street cook in ski goggles, working two flaming charcoal woks on a Bangkok sidewalk — and holder of a Michelin star. Her crab omelette and drunken noodles draw queues for hours.

📍 Bangkok, Bangkok 💴 Paid ⏱ Half day

🛸 Oddity

Maeklong Railway Market

A produce market built directly on active train tracks: eight times a day a train rolls through at walking pace, vendors snap their awnings back in seconds, and the stalls re-open before the last carriage has passed.

📍 Samut Songkhram, Samut Songkhram 🆓 Free ⏱ Half day

🎨 Art

The Sanctuary of Truth

A 100-meter-plus monument on the Pattaya shoreline built entirely of carved wood — no nails, every surface a sculpture — under construction since 1981 and deliberately never finished, with carvers working live as you walk through.

📍 Chonburi, Pattaya 💴 Paid ⏱ Half day

🏛️ Museum

Siriraj Medical Museum (The Death Museum)

A cluster of medical museums inside Bangkok's oldest hospital — pathology, forensics, anatomy and parasitology galleries lined with preserved specimens, including the infamous mummified remains of a 1950s murderer.

📍 Bangkok, Bangkok 💴 Paid ⏱ Half day

Browse by theme

🌲 Nature 🏞️ Scenic 🍜 Food 🏛️ Museum 🛣️ Roadside ⛩️ Shrine & Temple 🎨 Art 📜 History 🛸 Oddity 🏚️ Abandoned 🔭 Viewpoint 🏪 Old Shop ✨ Experience 🦊 Animals 🎏 Festival

🎏 Featured seasonal events

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🎏 Festival Seasonal event

Nabana no Sato Winter Illumination

One of Japan's largest light shows: millions of LEDs transform a flower park into glowing tunnels and a wall-sized animated light panorama that changes theme each year.

📍 Mie, Kuwana 💴 Paid ⏱ Half day 🗓 Oct 18 – May 31

🍁 Autumn ❄️ Winter 🌸 Spring

🎏 Festival Seasonal event

Songkran (Thai New Year)

For three days every April, the whole country turns into the world's biggest water fight — Thai New Year, where soaking strangers with buckets and hoses is both a blessing and a national pastime.

📍 Bangkok, Bangkok 🆓 Free ⏱ Full day 🗓 Apr 13 – Apr 15

🎏 Festival Seasonal event

Fuji Shibazakura Festival

Half a million pink moss-phlox blossoms carpet the ground in waves of color beneath Mt. Fuji each spring — a knockout foreground for Japan's most famous mountain.

📍 Yamanashi, Fujikawaguchiko 💴 Paid ⏱ Half day 🗓 Apr 18 – May 31

🌸 Spring