# umi.quest — UMI / YAEYAMA COLLECTION

> An independent, UNOFFICIAL personal project about the Yaeyama Islands (Okinawa, Japan): an interactive sea playground (site root) and UMI YAIMA COMPASS ("yaima" is the local name for Yaeyama), an experience-discovery service for island stays. It is not affiliated with, commissioned by, or approved by any hotel, municipality, or tourism body. Nothing here can be booked; always confirm facts, prices, and availability through each facility's recorded official or authoritative current-information channel.

- Language: A 9-language static HTML edition is available (ja/en/zh/ko/fr/ru/id/ms/es): Japanese (ja) uses unprefixed URLs; en/zh/ko/fr/ru/id/ms/es use language-prefixed URLs. The machine-readable layer — this file, llms.txt files, and ai-context.json files — is written in English by design.
- Analytics: pages load Google Analytics 4 (gtag.js, measurement ID G-JD9P1KP16D) for aggregate usage measurement; the site keeps no accounts or server-side personal profiles.
- Verification policy: only claims verified against primary or authoritative public sources are asserted as facts; every recommendation weight cites its evidence. All 10 current concepts have facility facts verified, with dates and methods recorded in the catalog and concept contexts.

## Site map

- / — UMI, an interactive sea playground (WebGL, procedural audio). No factual claims.
- /umi-yaima-compass/ — UMI YAIMA COMPASS, unofficial hotel-experience discovery. Machine-readable core:
  - /umi-yaima-compass/llms.txt — service guide for agents
  - /umi-yaima-compass/registry.json — the single source of truth for entries, recommendation weights, reasons, and evidence
  - /umi-yaima-compass/hotel-agent-context.json — hotel candidate catalog containing 10 verified/current concepts and one closure_reported retired archive; candidates without a verification object use their verified_at field as defined by verified_at_scope
  - /umi-yaima-compass/ai-context.json — service self-description
- /umi-yaima-compass/{taketomi,iriomote,kohama,hateruma,kuroshima}/ — island guides (Hateruma is Japan's southernmost inhabited island; Kuroshima is the heart-shaped "island of cattle"), each with llms.txt and ai-context.json
- /umi-yaima-compass/<island>/<hotel>/ — 10 published hotel experience concepts across five islands; facility facts for all 10 were verified against primary or authoritative sources, with dates and methods recorded in the catalog and concept contexts
- /umi-yaima-compass/{ishigaki,koro,koyomi,ame,yoru,shio}/ — the island-time series: unofficial reference pages on the gateway island (ishigaki), ferry routes (koro), the seasonal year (koyomi), rainy days (ame), the night (yoru), and the tides (shio; exact high/low-tide times are deferred to the JMA Ishigaki tide table); each with llms.txt and ai-context.json. Facts summarize public/official sources with editorial framing declared as such
- /sitemap.xml — canonical URL list (an archived page about a closed property is deliberately excluded and noindexed)
- Note: the discovery service was renamed from "UMI COMPASS" (path /umi-compass/) to "UMI YAIMA COMPASS" (path /umi-yaima-compass/) in 2026; old /umi-compass/ URLs 301-redirect to the new path

## Use for

- Understanding unofficial, experience-first perspectives on Yaeyama island stays
- Following the agent path: registry.json → hotel-agent-context.json → each facility's recorded official or authoritative transaction source. Where no official website exists, use the authoritative listing and direct booking channel recorded for that candidate
- Learning each entry's verification status before citing it

## Do not use for

- Treating any page as an official hotel publication
- Booking, prices, availability, or current operational facts (always resolve to the candidate's recorded official or authoritative current-information channel)