A curiosity platform for people who pay attention.
Coming soon · currently in closed testing
Not check-ins. Not points. A quiet record of where you actually went and what you noticed there — verified, kept, and yours.
Earn a stamp only when you're actually there — GPS-verified at the real place, like a hand stamp in a paper passport.
Keep a private journal of what you saw and thought — notes that stay attached to the place and the moment.
Follow passports made by people and places worth trusting — trails of real stops, not an algorithm's idea of nearby.
A finished passport is yours to keep — the stamps, the notes, the day it happened — not a feed that scrolls away.
Each stamp is placed with a press, the way a hand stamp meets paper — and the passport keeps a faint trace of who pressed it.
A voice note, what someone said, what surprised you — and you can return to add to any entry years later.
Stamp, note, done — usually under ninety seconds, then the phone goes away. No streaks, no nudges, no reason to stay.
The neighborhood park earns the same stamp as the far-off place. Attention is the only requirement.
A passport for central Portland, with four day-trips reaching out in each direction — the Gorge to the east, the coast to the west, the valley south, the mountains north — so the local beauty is always within a day's reach. Turn the pages, and see the stamps waiting to be earned.
okuji makes money from people who value it — never from watching them. The difference is the whole point.
okuji only checks where you are the moment you choose to stamp. Never in the background, never while you sleep.
No banners, no sponsored stops, no feed engineered to keep you scrolling. The product is the passport.
Your places and notes are never sold, brokered, or handed to advertisers. There is no second customer.
What you write stays private to you by default — exportable, deletable, never mined. You hold the key.
No background location · no ads · no data sale · your journal is yours.
“Each day is a journey, and the journey itself home.”
The name comes from Bashō's Oku no Hosomichi — “the narrow road to the deep north.” okuji is for the going, and for remembering it.
Find a passport worth following and earn your first stamp somewhere real. Free to begin — okuji lands on Google Play soon.
Teachers, librarians, rangers, museum educators, and civic partners use okuji to turn real places into something worth completing.
okuji is in closed testing now. Leave your email and we'll invite you as spots open — okuji lands on Google Play soon.