About
Power Spot Map maps places that people locally associate with a particular kind of blessing, and explains where that association comes from. Coverage starts with Japan.
Our editorial stance
This site is cultural and historical reference, not religious guidance and not a promise of results. We describe what a place is locally associated with, who says so, and how well documented it is. We never claim that visiting a place will produce an outcome.
How a place gets published
- A place is written from named sources, never from memory or generated text.
- Every cultural claim is labelled with an evidence level (below) and linked to the source it came from.
- Quick facts (address, hours, fee) are checked against the official site where one exists.
- Photos are used only under a licence that permits it, with the credit and licence shown on the page.
- Nothing is published until it passes an automated validation gate: coordinates in range, sources present, licence recorded, required text complete.
Evidence levels
These labels classify where a claim comes from. They rank the type of source, never how true a belief is.
- documented history
- Recorded in historical documents, official shrine or temple records, or academic work.
- folk tradition
- Long-standing local tradition, passed on within the community.
- local custom
- A practice observed at this specific place today.
- popular modern
- A modern or media-driven association, often recent.
How AI is used here, and where it can fail
Pages on this site are researched, drafted and translated with AI assistance, then reviewed by a person before they are published. That is why every claim carries a source you can open: the sources are the part you can check, and they are there so you do not have to take our word for it.
It still goes wrong in specific ways. A detail can be read from the wrong page of an official site, a qualifier can be dropped so a careful statement reads as a firm one, and a translation can flatten a distinction that matters. Anything time-sensitive should be confirmed on the official site before you rely on it: opening times, fees, and whether a hall or path is currently closed.
Corrections
If something here is wrong (a fact, a translation, a credit, or a framing that misrepresents a tradition), please tell us. Corrections are made in public and the page shows when it was last updated.