Earth
Buying guides and the shops behind them — kitchen, power, outdoors, music, style.
- Diameter 12,756 km
- Day length 24.0 hours
- Year 365.2 days
- Axial tilt 23.4°
- Mean temperature 15 °C
- Known moons 1
Figures are real. On screen, sizes and distances are compressed to fit one view.
Knives
Steel, edges and the boards they meet.
- Shun Shelf — Which Shun to buy first — settled in a minute (guide). Placed near Seki, Gifu, Japan.
- Tojiro Bench — The value Japanese gyuto — without the guesswork (guide). Placed near Tsubame-Sanjō, Niigata, Japan.
- Grit & Edge — Pick the right whetstone in 60 seconds (guide). Placed near Kyoto, Japan.
- Mise Kit — Decode your culinary school kit list (guide). Placed near Lyon, France.
- Board Kind — The cutting board your knives will thank you for (guide). Placed near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA.
Cookware
Pans, iron and heat — the hot side of the kitchen.
- Dogu House — Which Japanese kitchen tool do you actually need? (guide). Placed near Sakai, Osaka, Japan.
- Blue Steel Pans — The carbon-steel pan picker — sticking solved (guide). Placed near Paris, France.
- Season & Keep — Keep cast iron for life — the care kit (guide). Placed near South Pittsburg, Tennessee, USA.
- Coil Check — Will your pans work on induction? Check in 60 seconds (guide). Placed near Tokyo, Japan.
Style
A watch with a job. Boots with a second life.
- Field Hours — Field watches, decoded (guide). Placed near Biel/Bienne, Switzerland.
- Re-Sole — Boots you can re-sole, not replace (guide). Placed near Northampton, England, UK.
Home & yard
Mow without pushing. Keep the lights on.
- Lawnwise — Will a robot mower fit your yard? Measure first (guide). Placed near Stockholm, Sweden.
- Wattwise — Size a power station before you buy one (guide). Placed near Shenzhen, China.
Appliances
Rice and coffee, done properly.
- Kome Lab — Find the rice cooker that fits your table (guide). Placed near Osaka, Japan.
- Burr Bureau — Match the grinder to the brew — not the other way round (guide). Placed near Trieste, Italy.
Music
A first keyboard worth practising on.
- First Keys — The adult beginner piano checklist (guide). Placed near Hamamatsu, Japan.
Each guide is placed near a city that suits its subject. The placement is only a map marker.
Real city views
In the interactive universe, select Earth to open real streets, buildings and terrain for: Tokyo, Osaka, New York, Singapore, Amsterdam, Paris. Data: © OpenStreetMap contributors and Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL); terrain from AWS Terrain Tiles; weather from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0). All data sources.