Field note · Open data · 3 November 2026
Tokyo is turning public infrastructure into Wi-Fi
Status: research and proposals, not operational verification.
Observed in Tokyo on 3 November 2026: a public telephone booth displaying TOKYO FREE Wi-Fi signage near Oshiage. The sign establishes a promoted access service, not an independently verified connection or speed measurement.
Tokyo is developing public Wi-Fi infrastructure including OpenRoaming-enabled networks. Its current hotspot directory should be distinguished from historical open-data inventories.
A Tokyo Metropolitan Government Public Wireless LAN Access Point List dated September 2024 is a candidate for import into WiFi.ee. Before importing, verify its current license, field schema, geographic precision, record identifiers and whether locations are still active.
Import strategy: preserve source identifiers, attribution and retrieval dates; avoid duplicates; classify historical records as unverified; and never overwrite independently measured WiFi.ee observations.
Research question: can the city provide a current, machine-readable and explicitly reusable export of its newer OpenRoaming hotspots?