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Kaigan
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Kaigan

Designed by Kenichi Tanabe

Published by Ascora Games, Takamagahara

Moderate Depth: 30 Min Teach

Players

3-4

Community Snapshot

Best with 4
Medium complexity
~90 min
6.9 on BGG (459)
No text needed

Language Editions

EnglishFrenchGermanJapanese

Categories

Travel
Journey through locations — tourism, road trips, or global adventures.

How It Plays

Action Points

You get a limited number of action points each turn and choose how to spend them — prioritizing is everything.

Area Majority / Influence

You're competing to have the most presence in key areas on the board — think of it like a friendly turf war.

Hand Management

You have a hand of cards and deciding which to play, save, or discard is the core puzzle.

About This Game

In 1800, at 55 years of age, Tadataka Ino started his journey to make the first scale map of Japan's coast (Kaigan) using modern surveying techniques. His project lasted 21 years and resulted in a 1:36000 scale map that remained the definitive map of Japan for over a century. Ino's work brought renown not only to himself, but to Japan as well.…

Source: BoardGameGeek

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Play Time

90 min

Complexity

2.9 / 5

Rating

6.9

Year

2009

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