Audio tour · Japan
Shizuoka
A self guided audio tour of Shizuoka.
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A self guided audio tour of Shizuoka.
Shizuoka sits between the sea and the mountain, and Fuji is present on every clear day, enormous and unhurried above the rooftops. The city has a quietness to it that invites slow walking, past old shrines, tea fields on the hillsides, and coastal pine groves that have been here for centuries. It is the kind of place that asks nothing of you except that you look up.
In the app, 36 stops in Shizuoka are narrated aloud, about 1h 1m of listening across 3 walking routes, in 13 languages, offline once downloaded. Choose a route or build your own, then walk while a calm voice tells you the story of each stop. The app also maps 20 Instagram photo spots, social media photo locations with directions to where you stand for the shot.
The opening lines of a few narrations, straight from the tour.
"You are standing in front of one of the loveliest waterfalls in Japan, and the first thing to notice is how unusual its shape is."
"This green and moated park carries the weight of one of the most important lives in Japanese history."
"You have climbed high above Atami to reach this museum, and the view explains why."
"You are standing at the spiritual heart of Mount Fuji worship."
"The smooth green dome rising in front of you looks almost too tidy to be natural, like an overturned rice bowl set down on the Izu plateau."
"You are standing before the original burial place of Tokugawa Ieyasu."
Curated orders through the city. Or build your own and press Play All.
Walk from Tokugawa's retired capital through a great hillside shrine and into the ancient rice paddy settlement that first put this city on the map.
Ride the ropeway up to the plateau with its sweeping Fuji views, then trace a path past the ornate Tosho-gu mausoleum and the city's art museum.
Begin at the ancient grand shrine of Mishima Taisha, then follow Fuji's snowmelt as it surfaces in the gardens and along the famous Kakita River.
Every stop is narrated. Walk them in any order, or follow a route. Open a category to see what is inside.