Your meals.
Your heartbreaks.
Your travels.
Your everyday moments.
Hitotoki stores literary 'sketches' of moments you experience every day.
No check-ins. No bullshit badges. We think the most interesting stuff happens in the space between places. Hitotoki is built to help you capture those moments.
Using Hitotoki can be as trivial as mapping and photographing things you eat. Or as deeply personal as revisiting and mapping the trajectory of the love of your life.
It's a way to lay markers down in our wakes. Everyday we pass dozens of beautiful (or disgusting or hilarious or painful) little instances of life. It's nice to be able to quickly and easy capture and store those moments. Hitotoki lets you do that.
Anyone in any city can contribute in any language. There's no signup and no registration.
Each moment is mapped to a specific location. An image can be included with the moment.
Contributing is simple: Get Started
The word Hitotoki is a Japanese noun comprised of two components: hito or “one” and toki or “time,” and is often translated as “a moment.” In common usage, it can be used to describe any brief, singular stretch of time (if we share a meal someday, you can call that a hitotoki).
Hitotoki originally launched in May 2007 in Tokyo by Paul Baron, Craig Mod and Chris Palmieri, as a collaboration between Craig Mod and Tokyo web design group AQ.
Hitotoki was subsequently relaunched in February 2010, using Twitter as a protocol to allow people around the world to effortlessly contribute and submit their own moments.
The Hitotoki logo is composed of four hankos, traditional Japanese personal stamps. Each was carved in stone by Eiko Nagase, kissed, inked, and pressed to tissue paper, resulting in what you see above.
The hankos can be seen as city blocks, the space between them the little pockets we carve out for ourselves. Each hanko silloutte is an abstracted katakana character corresponding with the inlaid roman script. 
Our 435-page identity style guide allows for creative re-positioning of the blocks to fit the logo into different layout contexts. Sadly, the application of the “Bevel and Emboss” filter is strictly prohibited.
The current version of Hitotoki is built on Code Igniter, the excellent, slim figured open source PHP framework. The site used to be built on Expression Engine. If you're a dork, you'll find it very ironic that Expression Engine is now built on Code Igniter. *head-explodes*
We use geonames.org for reverse geoencoding latitude and longitude data.
