Audio tour · Japan
Tokyo
A self guided audio tour of Tokyo.
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The app is on the App Store
A self guided audio tour of Tokyo.
Tokyo is enormous but never exhausting on foot. Each neighbourhood feels like its own world, quiet temple gardens pressed against bright market streets, old wooden facades holding out beside glass towers, the whole city in a constant gentle renovation of itself. You can walk for hours without a plan and still feel oriented, carried along by a place that is as orderly as it is surprising.
In the app, 201 stops in Tokyo are narrated aloud, about 5h 42m of listening across 8 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 100 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.
"When you look up at this structure, you are seeing more than a tall tower."
"Look up."
"It was established by Emperor Meiji in 1869."
"Take a look at the sheer volume of people moving through here."
"You are standing at the edge of a large park-like area in the Chiyoda district of Tokyo."
"You're standing right in the heart of one of the most historically significant places in Tokyo."
Curated orders through the city. Or build your own and press Play All.
A short loop from Tokyo's most beloved steel tower through the quiet temple grounds of Zojoji and up into the glass towers of Roppongi's western shoulder
Follow the Sumida riverbank from the soaring Skytree down through the old merchant quarter of Asakusa to the sumo town of Ryogoku
Move from the ancient moats of the Imperial Palace through the shrine grounds of Yasukuni and across the university quarter that wraps the old castle hill
Start at the world's most famous pedestrian scramble and drift south through Dogenzaka and Daikanyama toward the tree-lined avenue of Omotesando
Step from the forested calm of Meiji Shrine through the museum and stadium belt of Sendagaya and on to the tower cluster that crowns west Shinjuku
An expansive waterfront arc from the towering Unicorn Gundam on the artificial island of Odaiba across to the gleaming new Toyosu fish market
Every stop is narrated. Walk them in any order, or follow a route. Open a category to see what is inside.