About
Who runs Petanco
Petanco is a browser-based scavenger hunt app. Organizers use it to build stamp tours, point challenges, and collection cards, and participants join from a phone browser with no app download. It is built and operated by GOWAS LLC, a company in Japan founded in 2018.
Petanco started in Japan, where stamp tours are a common way to move visitors around a festival, a shopping street, or a trade show. More than 140 case studies from real events are published on this site, and the same product is offered in English, Korean, and Traditional Chinese.
Company
Company information
| Service | Petanco, a browser-based scavenger hunt app for event organizers. |
|---|---|
| Operator | GOWAS LLC (legal name in Japanese: 合同会社GOWAS). |
| Representative | Kiminori Fujii. |
| Founded | 2018. |
| Head office | 15-27 Higashikaimon-cho, Satsumasendai, Kagoshima 895-0051, Japan. |
| Japan corporate number | 5340003000768. |
| Languages | The dashboard and this site are available in Japanese, English, Korean, and Traditional Chinese. |
| Contact | By form only; there is no phone line. We reply by email, usually within one business day. Contact form |
| Business hours | 10:00 to 17:00 Japan Standard Time, Monday to Friday, excluding Japanese public holidays. |
| Legal notice | The statutory disclosure under Japanese law is published in Japanese: Specified Commercial Transactions Act notice |
How we work with organizers
Petanco is self-service. You create an account, build your scavenger hunt, and test it for free, then pay by credit card when you publish. Every price is listed on the pricing page, so there is no quote to request.
We do not hold sales calls or onboarding meetings, and we do not build campaigns on your behalf. That is deliberate: it is how the price stays low enough for a one-day event. The FAQ and the help pages in the dashboard cover setup, and the contact form is there for questions they do not answer.
Participant data
Participants can join without an account, and organizers choose how much information to collect. How data is handled is set out in the Privacy Policy and the Terms of Service.
Where to go next
- What Petanco is and who it fits
- Features and check-in methods
- Case studies from real events
- Demos you can open on your phone