Tokyo · Landmark distance
"0.4 miles away" usually means a straight line on a map, not a distance you'd actually walk. Senso-ji sits right on the Sumida River, where that difference shows up constantly - a hotel across the water can look closer than it is.
Most listings compute "distance to landmark" as a straight line between two coordinates. That number ignores rivers, elevated roads, and the actual street grid - so a hotel that's "0.3 miles" away in a straight line can be a 20-minute walk once you account for the nearest bridge or crossing.
Enter a landmark (like "Senso-ji Temple") and StayRank AI calls OSRM - a real, open-source street-network routing engine - to compute an actual walking route and time for nearby hotels, the same kind of routing a maps app would give you turn-by-turn, not a geometry-only estimate.
Opens the live app with Tokyo searched and Senso-ji Temple set as the landmark.
Search hotels near Senso-ji →It uses the same kind of real street-network routing engine (OSRM) that turn-by-turn maps apps rely on - a genuine routed path, not a straight-line estimate.
Yes - the landmark field accepts any place name or address in any searched city; Senso-ji is used here because the river makes the straight-line-vs-real-route gap especially visible.