Abstract
In This paper, I described researches in Area Infomatics domain, mainly related with Center for Integrated Area Studies, Kyoto University. For structurizing those researches, 4 components (information architecture / processing software / ontology and knowledgebase / area data) and 3 axis (topic / spatial / temporal) are introduced. Related technical trend is also surveyed, and, based on that, future of Area Informatics is also described.