Open Data Challenge for Public Transportation 2025 Open Data Challenge for Public Transportation 2025
Contest Duration

July 1, 2025 - March 13, 2026

Application Period

October 1, 2025 - January 12, 2026

Total amount of prizes

3,000,000 JPY

Overview ▶︎

Open Data Challenge for Public Transportation 2025 – powered by Project LINKS – is an application contest aimed at open innovation using public transportation open data.

Railways, buses, airlines, ferries, and shared bicycles. Association for Open Data of Public Transportation, in collaboration with the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism(MLIT), is working nationwide to make Japan's public transportation data — often said to be the most complex in the world — available as open data.
This contest will also collaborate with the MLIT's "COMmmmONS" project to promote digital transformation of regional transportation, and will work to make data on demand transportation public, as well as to enrich data on barrier-free access.
We look forward to the passionate challenges of developers from all over the world, who will use data to create new services, resolve social issues such as eliminating "traffic gaps" and combating overtourism, and realize digital transformation of regional transportation.

NEWS

2025.08.14 A dataset of JR Freight for March 2025 (Available during the period of Challenge 2025) has been added.

2025.08.06 A dataset of JR East (Challenge 2025 Only) has been added.

2025.07.22 A dataset of Juo Jidousha Corporation has been added.

2025.07.01 Open Data Challenge for Public Transportation 2025 web page launched.

EVENT

Open Data Challenge for Public Transportation 2025 will host webinars and hackathons for developers and transportation operators.

  • Open Data Webinar for Public Transport Operators
    July 2025
  • Open Data Webinar for Developers
    August 2025

Past Contests

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