🐎 Horse-Shaped GPS Art Around Wins Miyazaki 🗻
This 21-kilometer GPS art walking course in Miyazaki City offers a unique New Year experience by allowing participants to draw the shape of a horse—the zodiac animal—through their walking course. Set in Miyazaki’s warm climate and spacious urban landscape, the course transforms an ordinary walk into a memorable piece of digital art.
The journey begins at Wins Miyazaki, located within the JRA Miyazaki Training Farm. It is the only off-track betting facility in Japan where visitors can actually see real racehorses. Renovated in 2023 as a cashless betting-only venue, the facility uses the UMACA card system and allows visitors to purchase betting tickets while watching young horses being trained just outside the windows. Events such as pony riding experiences further highlight Miyazaki’s deep connection to horses.
From Wins Miyazaki, the course extends toward AEON Miyazaki, a major shopping complex that serves as a local hub, before heading into quieter residential areas. Passing Miyazaki Zenjinkai Hospital and Miyazaki-Jingū Station, walkers experience a smooth transition from lively commercial zones to calm neighborhoods surrounded by greenery.
Miyazaki is well known as a land of mythology and tradition, home to Miyazaki Shrine, which is closely associated with Japan’s founding legends. Horses have long been regarded as sacred messengers of the gods in Shinto belief, making the act of drawing a horse near New Year’s particularly meaningful in this region.
The long but gentle 21-kilometer course is ideal for reflection, fitness, and setting intentions for the year ahead. With open skies, warm sunshine, and a strong cultural connection to horses and horsemanship, this GPS art course offers an experience that blends sport, spirituality, and creativity. Completing the course leaves behind a bold horse-shaped trace on the GPS map—a symbol of strength, progress, and fresh beginnings in the heart of Miyazaki.
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A PIONEER IN GPS ART.
1st work was authorized by Guinness World Records as “the Largest GPS Drawing”.
He is the only Japanese person to be featured in a Google documentary as an innovator. He is fascinated by the idea of drawing with GPS and has published more than 2,500 works.
