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Mie Prefecture has launched the Mie Bousai Navi smartphone app, which allows users to check evacuation sites and hazard information around their current location in preparation for disasters such as the Nankai Trough earthquake.

The app is available in eight languages ​​(English, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnamese, Tagalog and Japanese). The prefecture hopes that you will use Mie Bousai Navi to prepare for disasters.

Download from the App Store (iOS version download link)

Download from Google Play (Android version download link)

About the translation

• The app’s content is automatically translated when it is launched, based on the language setting of your smartphone itself.
• Information that the app receives from external sources, such as weather information, is displayed in Japanese first. After receiving the information, press the translation button to translate it.

 What you can do with Mie Bousai Navi

(1) Check nearby evacuation locations and directions from anywhere in the area.

• Push notifications are sent when emergency information (e.g. evacuation information from local authorities) is issued for the area around your current location.
• The app contains information about evacuation locations, evacuation centers, and risk areas nationwide, so you can search for nearby shelters using a digital map.
• The app can provide directions to the evacuation location you searched for.

(2) Evacuation plans can be registered in advance.

• In preparation for the occurrence of wind damage and flooding, you can register your personal evacuation plan in advance, including emergency items to take with you and evacuation actions.

(3) Various disaster prevention information can be checked.

Various disaster prevention information in Mie Prefecture can be checked in one place on the digital map.

*Information that can be checked: landslide risk data, rain cloud radar, rainfall information, river level information, river camera, tide level information, road closure information.

Click here to view the Mie Bousai Navi brochure (Japanese only).

Contact (In Japanese language only)

Mieken Bousai Taisaku-bu Chiiki Bousai Suishin-ka

Tel: 059-224-2185