Press & Media Kit

Overview

Goshuin is a cultural travel and collection platform for discovering Japan's temples, shrines, goshuin, pilgrimage routes, and the stories shared by the people who visit them. The website, iPhone app, and Apple Watch companion bring discovery, trip planning, visit records, a digital goshuincho, and community contributions into one place.

Use this page as the source of truth when writing about Goshuin. For interviews, fact checks, or a custom asset set, email hello@goshuin.com.

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Short description

Goshuin helps travelers and collectors discover Japan's temples and shrines, plan meaningful journeys, record visits and goshuin in a digital goshuincho, and learn from a community sharing photos, videos, reviews, and local knowledge. It is available on the web, iPhone, and Apple Watch.

Full description

Goshuin is a cultural travel guide, journey planner, and collection companion for Japan's temples, shrines, and sacred stamps. Travelers can explore more than 400 published temples and shrines, plan routes with 3D maps, revisit recent travel, record visits in a digital goshuincho, and use Siri Shortcuts and Apple Watch tools while on the move. Community features bring together public photos, videos, reviews, goshuin, walks, and practical local insight. Core discovery works without an account; signing in enables supported cloud sync, account recovery, and participation in the community.

Quick facts

Product highlights

• Discover temples and shrines through maps, cultural detail, transport information, accessibility notes, amenities, events, and pilgrimage routes
• Plan travel with Journeys, 3D maps, day-by-day stops, recent-trip reconstruction, expenses, receipts, checklists, documents, and shareable itineraries
• Build a digital goshuincho with photos, visit context, collection organization, and personal insights
• Share and discover community check-ins, goshuin, photos, videos, walks, reviews, comments, and recommendations
• Use the Apple Watch app for nearby places, quick check-ins, walk tracking, complications, and optional Apple Health integration
• Open common actions through Siri and the Shortcuts app, including search, nearby temples, maps, visits, check-ins, photos, and goshuin

Verified traction

Collectors have recorded more than 700 goshuin in Goshuin. This is based on the live product database as of July 18, 2026.

For another independently visible signal, the Canadian App Store currently shows a 5.0 rating from 9 ratings. App Store totals vary by storefront and can change over time.

Accounts, storage, and privacy

Goshuin is local-first, not local-only. People can explore the core catalog without creating an account. When someone signs in, supported collection and travel data can be stored and synchronized through Goshuin's cloud services; community publishing and social interactions also use an account.

Private collection data is not made public by default. People choose when to publish or contribute content. Goshuin uses privacy-conscious product analytics, feature flags, and crash diagnostics, including OpenPanel, PostHog, and Sentry. The website uses cookieless analytics rather than analytics cookies. See the current Privacy Policy for the complete data-handling description.

Editorial media

The screenshot downloads below show the product interface without marketing headlines or promotional text. Images may be reproduced for editorial coverage of Goshuin. Please do not alter the interface, imply an endorsement, or use the images to represent an unrelated product.

Product video

• Download the 20–30 second Goshuin product overview (MP4)

High-resolution screenshots

• Discover — cities and recent community activity (PNG)
• Explore — temple and shrine map (PNG)
• Community — current collector activity (PNG)
• Temple search — Kinkaku-ji map result (PNG)

Brand assets

• Goshuin logo SVG
• App icon (1024×1024)
• Founder photo
• App Store badge

Please do not stretch, recolor, or obscure the logo. Contact us if you need transparent variants, print-ready artwork, original-resolution media, or captions tailored to a story.

Story angles

• How digital tools can help travelers approach goshuin as a record of worship and travel, rather than a souvenir checklist
• Why pilgrimage routes and slower travel still matter to modern visitors
• How community contributions can improve practical information about temples and shrines
• What it takes to build culturally respectful travel software across nine languages
• How iPhone, Apple Watch, maps, and Shortcuts can support a real day of temple visits

Founder

Goshuin is operated by David Dias Digital, the sole proprietorship of David Dias, an independent developer based in Toronto. David builds tools for cultural discovery, travel planning, and the long-term preservation of structured information about Japanese temples, shrines, goshuin, and pilgrimages.

Suggested attribution: David Dias, founder of Goshuin.

Press inquiries

For interviews, quotes, fact checks, media assets, partnership questions, or permission requests, email hello@goshuin.com.

For support questions, incorrect place information, or account help, use the contact page so the request reaches the right workflow.

Coverage

We list media coverage only after it has been published and verified. If you have covered Goshuin and want us to add the link here, send it to hello@goshuin.com.