Legal notice

Last updated: 27 October 2026

Publisher

smokinginjapan.com is published by Alexandre Duarte, a private individual based in Spain.

Hosting

Website: Cloudflare, Inc., 101 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, United States (Cloudflare Pages).

Database: Supabase, Inc. (supabase.com, [email protected]), servers in Tokyo, Japan.

Data and sources

Smoking areas and rules come from official sources (city and ward lists, open data, ordinances), each cited with the date it was checked, and from visitors' contributions.

Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), tiles by OpenFreeMap. Stations and block boundaries: Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) and e-Stat, processed by the publisher.

Information only

The rules shown are indicative: the official text prevails. The publisher cannot be held liable for a fine or for a smoking area that has changed or closed. Always follow the signs on site.

The site is for adults aged 20 and over, the legal smoking age in Japan. It does not promote any tobacco brand or product.