Japan Travel - Route,Map,Guide App Reviews

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Not good for pre-planned trips. We had some events pre planned and I can’t add them. They only show you booking through them. I can find the routes etc, but definitely not worth the money if you just need help with some stops.

Tourist necessity!. This app is a must have for tourists coming to Japan who plan on taking the trains. It tells you exactly where to go and what lines to get on so navigation is a breeze. Just make sure you have pocket wifi with you otherwise the app won’t run.

Awesome app!. Definitely your GO TO app for finding your train options. I used this over HYPERDIA app that others recommended. The app helped me in booking and planning my trips on the Shinkansen using JR rail pass.

Essential for Japan Rail Pass. This shows the proper routes with Japan Rail Pass. Google Maps won't work since it's always showing non-pass routes. Great app.

Best route planning app. Best app among all the navigating apps I downloaded and tried out while in Japan. The most helpful feature was that it would tell you which train to take (on a JR Pass), which station to catch it, what time it would leave, and the track that it leaves from. Now if only someone would develop an app to guide you through the maze of underground tunnels and shopping corridors to find the right exit close to your hotel.

Amazing!. I’ve never been to Japan before, don’t speak Japanese. Planned my whole trip using this, paid for premium, it’s worth it!! Would not have been able to get around the subways without it.

Making free features paid. I have been using this app for years now, and it has been very helpful as a resident in Japan. With one of the more recent updates, they started to really push the paid plans. This took features that were free and monetized them. The station list for my route is no longer viewable which was great for tracking my time. In addition, they hide the cost of the premium plan to get you to buy it easier. Very sad. I will be looking for a new app to use.

Reliable!. It’s very accurate. It gives you the exact time and information of where to go. Now, I am an expert with trains!

Bad train information on this app. Tried finding train route from Tokyo to my resident city, Tsukuba, Japan, but the app gave me wrong information. I have taken this route dozens of time using the excellent Hyperdia website. But this app not only gave me a bad route, it could not even find the Tsukuba train station. Tsukuba is the Japan Science City and the second biggest city in Ibaraki Prefecture, so this is shameful. Do not get this app. instead, use the Hyperdia website.

Beyond essential for travelers to Japan. If you’re visiting Japan and don’t have this app, you’re doing yourself a disservice. The timetables and train navigation are fast, easy to understand, and accurate. It outranks other apps (including Google Maps) in almost every regard.

Calibration thing is annoying af. This app is amazing but WAY TOO OFTEN it makes me spin my phone around to "calibrate" with this dumb ball and circle. It's entirely pointless and I don't even need the app to track my location so it's useless. GET RID OF IT!!

Literally a life saver!. Recommended by a Japanese friend of mine, this app turned out to be insanely crucial while I traveled in Japan. At places like Tokyo the metro network can be daunting, but this app tells you how to get from one station to another, which track, what time, and even which car you should be in so that transferring to another line is as efficient as possible. Use this when you are in Japan!

Never found it useful. We traveled most of Japan and found google to be better. Navigation seemed hard and it didn’t seem to come up with interesting things to do. I struggled to find the right trains to get on and just gave up as it was easier in google. I found the app a waste of money. Shame I had high hopes. Third visit to Japan with rail pass and three kids.

Only routing would be great. I really wish this app was only a routing app. It feels bloated and slow with all the other information that’s all trying to get my attention when all I want is to know which train to take, when, and which platform I need to go to. The routing function is fantastic and there are tons of other resources for tourists to plan their visits, so why jam those two things into one app?

Indispensable travel planning app. Incredibly helpful for getting around Japan. If you’re just looking for train times, it has a better sense than HYPERDIA of which sections of lines are/are not affected by service advisories, and it also seems to provide more optimized routings. Even more impressively, this app integrates bus and ferry times - and has fares and bus stop numbers/names too. A journey from a Kirishima ryokan to Shimabara Port that took me hours to piece together from the various local Japanese transportation services’ sites takes a few minutes to find in this app. Pretty amazing.

A must for traveling to Japan. This app was a godsend during our trip to Japan! We used it constantly, so helpful to find the right route, especially with it telling me if the route would be covered by my JR Pass. HIGHLY recommend downloading if traveling to Japan.

Best app for traveling in Japan. We spent two weeks traveling Japan with a JR pass and this app was essential- better than google maps because it gives you the option to “Prioritize JR pass”. Great!

Cluttered app upsells everything, undermining rail strengths. This could have been a good app if it focused on its rail timetable and planning strengths. Instead, it is cluttered with distracting and irrelevant offers and information for things one can search and find in a dozen other better content sites. This obscures and undermines the rail planning function which could have made the app uniquely worthwhile. It is not a question of paying for ad-free premium, it’s a question of app focus to do one thing well instead of ten things poorly.

Best Japan transportation info app. As foreigner I find this app very useful to know how to get from one place to another, truly the best app I’ve used for Japan Rail, subway, taxi, etc... very recommended

A Giant Advertisement. Despite having an expensive subscription service, it is LOADED with ads. The home page of the app is a landing page for advertisements. It will constantly send you push notification ads. The directions are marginally better than Google/Apple maps, it’s 100% not worth it.

SUPERB APP!!!. this app is very helpful!!! tried using other apps but nothing compares to this. with my recent travel to tokyo and osaka, this helped us a lot and made our life easier. it shows your options on where to go and the fare you need to pay.

Deletes everything. This app is great, but….. it always deletes my saved train routes. I live and work in japan, and it’s very annoying when I look to see what train I can take, and it deletes ALL my saved routes. To the point I have to save them all over again. This has happened multiple times.

Overly Complicated. Does not show route maps! Even for paid version. Don't waste your money. Travel instructions lack clarity. One good feature: it *will* tell you when to leave Point A to arrive at Point B, at a specific time. Other than that, Google maps is far easier to use, plan, & view your route while you're traveling.

Life-saver!. Just the free portions of this are worth 5 stars. The routing system is a must when traveling. The platforms, changes, and times were spot-on. This made a 2 week trek around Japan by rail east.

Best navigation app ever. Have been using the app all over Japan for the past two weeks and it has performed flawlessly. The information is accurate, detailed and reliable. It is easy to use and has lots of great features, like letting you create a menu of your hotel names and addresses so you can quickly search for the best route to or from wherever you’re staying. You can also easily filter searches by whatever pass you may have and/or type of transportation you prefer to use. If you’re traveling around Japan on your own itinerary, you’ll want to have this app.

MUST FOR NAVIGATING JAPAN. I’m currently in Japan visiting and this app has been helping me navigate Japan. Once you get the hang of using it, the train stations are easy to navigate. Super helpful app and without it I would be lost in Japan. I love how it also has helpful articles like how to handle money and places to visit. Absolutely would recommend this to my friends. Thank you so much for creating this app!!

Back to the once upon a time. Place I call, “the HOME of my SOUL”. I was born near by town of Tomonoura. A long long time ago! Went to the U.S.A. to explore my curiosities. Then found the freedom!!!!! Decided to stay! Got married. Two kids! Every trip I, we, made to my native land, Japan, our trip included Tomonoura!!!! Now my kids want to visit there as their pilgrimage! I feel so warm inside of the core of my heart when I get greeted by the sign saying “WELCOME HOME”. In Japanese! There must be so many beautiful places to visit in Japan but Tomonoura will be one of the places you can enjoy Japan’s ONCE UPON A TIME!

Highly recommended. It makes seemingly complicated routes easy to find. I started using it on my 3rd day in Tokyo, and found it much easier to get around using the JR pass and the Toei/Metro pass.

Must have. The amount of information given in this app is wonderful. Location of a.t.m’s, money exchange, free WiFi, and closest stations is great. Travel route are better than the app that my native japanese friend has, with multiple routes to choose from and distinct JR pass routes. Estimation on how much non JR trains cost and taxi travel is spot on. I’ve been to Japan several times and this app made this trip even easier. I utilized all its features on a daily basis. I thank the developers for a well thought out and very usable application.

This app is a life saver. I have been living in Japan for a little over a year now and I use this app all the time. It’s incredibly user friendly. I’ve used it to navigate the trains and subways in Tokyo with ease. Would highly recommend.

Indispensable. This app is absolutely indispensable for travel within Japan on the rail, subway and bus systems. The search results are clearly laid out with station numbers and your particular track information. Apps like Hyperdia are GROTESQUELY complicated in comparison. Couple this app with a WiFi hotspot ( I used Japan Wireless) and you will never be lost. I’d give it 10 Stars if I could.

I’m enjoying this App. This is a great app for someone visiting Japan as well for people living here. You get all the shopping information from electronics to clothing shops and their discount and taxes save. I haven’t try the Navi drive yet. I hope it will save me a lot of time from using google map which usually take me to all the alleys in Japan before my destination. I like the train directions of this app.

Great J-Pass. This is a great rail app for free. I was using the other japan official app but it wasn’t showing my JR trains effectively, so i switch to this one and gets my planned and reserved trains. You can use both if you need to but if you want a one and done than this app is it.

JapanTravel. Not a good interface. Too much junk and cluttering articles that you have to navigate through to get to the usefull stuff

Incredible app - for JR pass holders, Google Maps is useless. You can optimise for JR pass routes on this app, specially the Shinkansen Bullet trains you can take for free - Google Maps keeps suggesting more expensive options which wasn’t super useful. Sometimes it helps to check Google Maps to see which station is closer to your actual destination...so a map split view would be kinda nice right inside this app and something I might be willing to pay for. All the train stations are in English but I would have also liked if the local Bus stops which were often in Japanese were also in English. Google maps suffers from the same problem so they’re doing the best with the data they have I guess. This something we had to get by with by asking people in Japan around - who are also perhaps the best humans I’ve ever come across.

Great App for Train/Subway. This app has been very useful for me while traveling in Tokyo and beyond via train, subway, bus. It has definitely saved me a lot of time and stress when navigating the somewhat complex but wonderful transportation network. Information is updated in realtime keeping users in tune with delays, detours, conditions. Highly recommended download!

Outstanding app. One of the best applications I’ve ever used. It always works with no issues. I’m planning my trip and this app gives me ideas where to go and what to see. Definitely will use it in Japan. Absolutely love it!

Paid version is worthless. Great info on train times and routes but I wanted the navigation feature. Even with my pocket wifi it never worked. No turn by turn, no voice prompts, and it was very laggy. Wish I could get my $20 back. We ended up using Google maps. Not only was it more up to date but it tells you which entrance and exit to use. It even suggests which car to use for the fastest exit!

Paywalling useful features. I used to love this app, but they’ve made some very questionable changes lately. Seeing the station list used to be free, now they’re making you pay for premium to look at it. I’ve also seen a bunch more popups bothering me to upgrade. I’ll be using a different app from now on.

Great for using the trains. I used this for my week in Tokyo and it was amazing for getting you where you want to go. Would recommend.

For the past several years.... ...I used an app called Japan Transit. Notice the verb tense above. Japan Transit got deleted after I used this app for all of 5 minutes. Much more info available with this new app, so I am still learning, but it is still much better.

Good for somethings, bad for others. I gave this app 3 stars because numerous times, the stores I wanted to find/shop at came up with no information. This is disappointing because they immediately appeared when I googled the same store name with all the information including a map and directions. While other portions of the app are fine, for me if I want to go somewhere and this app can’t even tell me it exists I’m sorry to say it’s usefulness is closer to a 1 star... especially considering I had to pay $7.95!!!

Essential travel app. This app was incredibly useful traveling to japan and navigating the public transport. It calculates your fair and has clear and essential information about the rail lines, and up to date info on times and delays. This app saved me a lot of confusion and stress visiting Japan for the first time.

All. Very good app to help with travel in Japan. Provides multiple options based on desired inputs- departure / arrival time. Also has other tourist information. Thanks for making my travel in Japan easy.

Great app. I rarely write reviews but felt compelled to do it here. It must be the best app there’s to travel using your JR pass. Has good routes, can optimize for JR pass, and even shows the platform numbers which is super useful.

Top!. I definitely recommend this app. I used it for travelling around Japan, see the hours of the trains and how to get to the places we wanted to visit in Tokyo. It was very easy to understand the transport system of Japan thanks to this app.

Update 3.0.0 ruined it. I downloaded this app ahead of my trip to Japan 4 weeks. I was messing with it for a few weeks and loved it. Now, the night before my trip, I opened it up and was confused. Where was my app? Did I download something else? NOPE! The update ruined it. And I lost all my saved routes in the update. Now it’s confusing and difficult to use. Shame!

Very good (better than google maps). Very smooth great for trains ferries even busses. I wish that there’d be English characters for busses so you can search for bus stops, also to be able to look up nearby busses, maybe add/incorporate stops. Also maybe even a biking route option. Finds places google maps doesn’t have. And is much easier to see all times that bus stop leaves as compared to google maps. I use google maps just to get the name of the bus stop I need sometimes and plug that into this app or use the location of the bus stop. And I’m have reach my destination. These would all be very cool extras. As it stands, this is a fantastic app.

Absolutely the best. If you need to get from point a to point b in Japan, this app is your friend. It is the English version of the app widely used by Japanese speakers. In-app purchases are nice but not essential. Free version will get you where you're going.

Great App for Public Transit. Works in places Google maps doesn't. Now with the timetable feature also free, it's a very convenient app to find how often a certain bus comes.

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Japan Travel. Outstanding

Missing water transports. Where are all the ferry services plying around the mainland and to the islands ? I was looking for ferry service to Okinawa from Kagoshima, all I was suggested was a taxi. Duration 1 day + and an incredible fare ! Sorry, but for an island nation with such good transport facilities, this is a big gap.

Couldn't use. Looked exciting in the calm before I left on my trip but on the ground in Tokyo, just couldn't get my head around it. Gave up quickly on AR goose chases. Just doesn't seem to gel with the situation of a traveller. Maybe needs a help wizard, a novice exercise to start you off or an additional user interface? Great concept which I will look out for in future.

Japan Travel. Very easy to navigate the rail system using this app

Is this reliable?. Thought great initially but… I am getting different results on doing a second search. Also the layout is very annoying - too much space between lines - you need to be able to take a screenshot and it doesn’t fit!

Can’t beat it!. I’m coming up to my 5th time in Japan and have used this app every single time! Easy to use and helps with planning your transport with approximate prices, travel times etc. Recommend to everyone!

Can’t go around Japan without it. Best app ever! I have only ever use the Route function. Two weeks in Tokyo, this app is a life saver ! I particularly like how it gives you alternatives e.g. it can you can choose a route with walk + metro + taxi , and it tells you which metro line to use, how much it each leg and how long it takes. It’s even better than google!

Frustrating. This App was one of the best when you need to find the right transportation when you are in Japan. However after the recent updates, this App cannot be used on my iPad Pro and iPad 6 to search the appropriate routes because there is a Navitime banner blocking the search button! Please fix this ASAP because I really need to use this App on my trip.

What kind of hell is this. We just wanted train schedules and seriously ut had us creating all sorts of bull shot itinerary. Once you get past that new type of hell you want to save places …. But it won’t let you Shove this app

A must have when travelling in Japan!. I cannot recommend this app more! We used this travelling from Tokyo Disneyland, into Tokyo city, Osaka, Hiroshima and Kyoto. It has all the info right there on your screen down to the platform number which was sooooo helpful as we were travelling in a group so when we were in a hurry I could at least tell everyone which platform to head to. I used this app to navigate us through our entire 2x week trip. We had a JR pass for 7 days of the trip and you can even put in the criteria that you want to see JR Pass compatible lines, really helpful when catching the bullet train as there are a couple you cannot use the train pass for. We saved all the ones we wanted into our schedule so it made it easy! Love it!

Detailed but frustrating bug. Very detailed app with all the information you could want as a tourist down to which platform and car you want to get on. Unfortunately it has a fatal bug for me. It CONSTANTLY keeps popping up the iPhone compass calibration wheel whenever in the search screen. Every 2 seconds or so it pops up and makes using the app almost impossible.

A rare app that is 100% reliable. I stumbled upon this app by accident and used it in my first holiday to Japan. It was 100% reliable, easy to use and useful. An invaluable tool to help navigate the rail system. Fully recommend it to anyone travelling to Japan.

This app is a must. If you plan to travel to Japan, get this app, it is free and it takes the guess work out of the train and bus network. It only took an hour to work out the trains but still used the app for every trip we made. Do yourself a favour and also get yourself a Suica prepaid travel card when you get to Japan, no need to buy tickets for daily sightseeing then.

Life saver. I used this app only for the route planner. I like that you can select a date and time and it gives you multiple options. Highly recommend. Seriously great app.

Visit Japan. Very handy to have while travelling in Japan.

Better Apps Compared to the Rest. Japan's rail system can be confusing for a foreigner. This was by the better app we used to figure out where we were going. Extremely helpful when navigating around Tokyo with platform number details.

User1234. Complicated and misleading searching for navigation. Google is much better.

Station and platform numbers. App works well when you have gps location services. Drop outs regularly. Platform numbers and directions when using could be easier, present. Time tables could be adjustable like choosing to not catch the current train should provide options and delayed times with out having to re search destinations.

Helpful but still missing data. App was a really useful help in relation to the JR Railpass but when it came to details on other ones like the Hakone FreePass details were lacking. The app provided no warning about some services that needed a reserve seat or additional cost when planning you day of travel. Over all it was useful but caused some long delays in time wasting when details were not clear at point of purchase ( ticket machines) or on signs at the platform (reserved only) like others trains advertised.

Saviour.. I am incredibly grateful to this app. Without it, my experience in Japan would have not been nearly as enjoyable. I'd have gotten lost at every station. Honestly, this app was my saviour during my trip to Japan.

Best app ever. It not only tells you how to connect between places, it tells you which station platform to get on and which part of the car to get off, this is sooo helpful travel in confusing Tokyo train system.

Invaluable tool. This app is a must for every person planning a trip to Japan. Gives you all the information you need to navigate Japan’s extensive rail network in a clear and concise way. It has on the spot search so you can enter and search for a non station destination. I’ve used Hyperdia and the presentation of information is cluttered and can easily confuse a first time user. This app, however, is easier to understand as user interface is uncluttered. Highly recommended.

Bugboy17. Great and accurate

Makes getting around so easy!. Our first time toJapan as a family & it was my best friend the whole time. Couldn’t recommend highly enough

Trip Dates. Trip dates will slide back one day every time you view them, deleting your planned days. Developers need to fix this bug.

Slow/crashing on iPhone 6s. App is very slow on iPhone 6S. Heating up my phone like crazy and crashing. I know I have an old phone, but no other app has such poor performance.

Amazing travel app!. I'm in Japan right now using this as my navigation and it's hands down one of the most useful apps I've ever downloaded. Gives far more localized and specific info than google maps and the subway info is incredible. The only downside is sometimes the compass isn't accurate in the navi feature. I've gone with the full featured plan and would highly recommend it. If I could meet the creator I would give them a high five!

Please fix. Great app, but route favorites/history keep dissapearing :( this especially happens when there is an app update

So much potential but a bit let down.. Useful app for transport information however the planning features are horribly glitchy and unusable.

Good and bad. Good points - generally very handy for trains, and recommend it for any visitor to Japan or expat living in Japan. Bad points - seems mainly geared to Japan visitors rather than expat residents of Japan who want a good English app. - extra services, I think, are costly, but again this is because the app is aimed at short term visitors, so this may be worth it for them. - if the app provided a yearly cost, for long term use of premium services, that was reasonable, I would consider it. - annoying request for personal details each time the app is first opened, you can skip it though. - seems to use a lot of battery life with background usage, so I strongly suggest turning off the location services unless you really need it.

Train travel. Amazing app, the best found

Bug. The favorite stores will be wiped out in few days. Also the upgrade lasts only 7 days.

Useful tool. Great app, I am using it daily to commute ! Thank you

A MUST for travelling through Japan!. I cannot recommend this app highly enough! We used Japan Travel everyday for 3weeks from Tokyo to Hiroshima and back. It was infallible for everything from subway, trams and for us, as Australian travellers, the JR pass! It never let us down and saved us quite a few times!! Highly accurate. The only thing to be aware of, is that the app defaults to stations nearby, so when you are organising in advance (and not necessarily geographically close to the station), you really need to know the name of the station you want to look up. I would give Japan Travel 10 STARS!!!!

Not good.. Best there is, a little slow Need to edit favorited stations. Need for Ipad.

A must for JR Pass. This App made light work of utilising the JR Pass purchased prioritising the pass wherever it could maximising the value of the purchase. This has taken us in everything from ferrys to buses and of course bullet and all JR train lines. Once you work out all the features it becomes a planning must have. The from current position feature made getting to our destinations much easier.

Otherwise perfect. I love this app as it takes a lot of information and puts it in one place. I dropped a star because as a user with a paid plan I found the app unusable without a data connection. Could not review past searches as the app just got stuck is a spinning wheel.

A must have App for Japan travelling.... This app is awesome for any train travel within Japan...

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Useful - especially if you have a JR pass. This is a wonderful tool for planning your travel. Essential with a JR pass

Don’t buy access to maps!!!. This app is OK for finding routes that Google may not give you, however the amount they charge to see the actual map is RIDICULOUS! Highway robbery! The map portion actually doesn’t help at all. Your better off using a combination of Google maps plus this one if your interested in all transit options. I feel like I got scammed!

Essential for Train Travel in Japan. The app was worth every penny on our month long trip to Japan! It allowed us to easily plan train trips, screenshot itineraries, keep track of stops along the way so we didn’t miss our stop, and have back up plans at the ready. Super user friendly and easy to use. Haven’t found anything quite like it in any other country we’ve visited.

All great but…. I love this app and it make travel planning much easier. Although it is not perfect, I only want to complain that it doesn’t allow me to delete a certain day from the plan other than deleting the last day(s); neither allows me add one day in front or in the middle of existing plan.

Extremely informative presentation.. Fantastic app to help prepare for future visits.

Allebram7915. Best app to get around in japan,highly recommended

Great app. More concise and accessible than Hyperdia. My only peeve is the keyboard lag when you're typing in station names. Pls work this out but otherwise super helpful and I don't write a lot of reviews!

Worthless app. Doesn't recognize bus stops Can't adjust time to before current time Many other apps available for navigation This one is worthless

You need this app ! Excellent!. If you have a JR pass and need to navigate forget google or apple maps. You need this app. It will filter out Nazomi which is important. Very pleased with the apps functionality.

Helpful App!. This app was great for my trip to Japan! It has options that are super helpful, like filtering by pass (like JR Pass), adjusting walking speed, and a button to screenshot your route. It also gives helpful details including exit name/number and platform number.

Battery Usage Issue. Check your battery health & Usage and check how often its open in the backround. Since I had the app my battery would drain like crazy. Now deleted it works fine. I don’t know why the app needs to run 24/7 on your phone.

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Was free. Great app when it was free

Not so great with latest updates. The app crashes every time when accessing the time specifics. Plus, typing in stations is horrifically slow, where text is appears 1 second after pressing. Waiting for a new fix, but in the meanwhile I'm using Google Maps without a hitch.

Great app!. Great app that helps you better learn and navigate Japan’s intense rail system.

Missing components!!. I have lived in Japan for many months but still I don't get to the place on time that's why I needed a powerful app that will give me information about train schedule and status. Don't get me wrong, this app is almost perfect and I have been using it ever since the day I got here. The only missing components is "live timer", probably train status and platform number. Train's platform number is very important for those people who aren't aware to the line company name so I guess those three components are a must have.

Not working:. If you have a iPhone with iOS 11 software, this app doesn’t work. But it is a great app if it’s working.

Why do you need to access my location ALL THE TIME?. Most travel app use my phone location WHILE USING THE APP. You can check this under Settings --> Privacy --> Location. For some reason, Japan Travel wants to access my location, all the time, even when I am not in Japan? This is a huge privacy issue.

John. Use this about 3 or 4 times when visiting Japan. It works great.

Easiest to use for Public Transit in Japan. Love the app, even the free version is fully functional and easy to use. Highly recommended!

Multiple trains. I’m unable to pick other bullet trains it just defaults to one

Excellent app. Very useful app for getting around. Esp Tokyo. Nicely integrates with all train companies. Highly recommend getting this app if you are visiting Japan.

NAVITIME app. December 7th addition. I can no longer recommend this app since each time I try use it the ticket I purchased remains expired. Even after they gave me a free 30 days it still expires after a certain amount of time. Ok I'm happy with the app and its functions; however, I don't know if I like the ticket purchase function. It's nice if you only need the app for vacations which only last 1 to 2 weeks or if you can 30 days. I generally would use it regularly living here in Japan. I just don't know if I want to pay for a year. Now for the con, I bought a ticket on a Saturday and used it for the day. On Monday I got a notice that said my ticket expired. I contacted the company and then reinstalled it. It worked for awhile but then expired again. I'm on my 3rd download one more failure and I'm contacting apple for s refund and going back to hyperdia and google maps. ej

True Japanese experience: perfunctory hoop jumping. Bottom line: just use google maps—I'm a resident and it is superior in every way. The other "features" of this app are attempts to upsell. Tracks you and collects user data. "Free wi-fi" requires that you already have internet access to confirm your email, which you must handover. If you do download however you can get the true Japanese experience: perfunctory hoop jumping for no benefit whatsoever and pointless "features" that clutter everything but offer nothing. Design by committee.

Best app for Japan trains!. I have downloaded so many. But this one is the best! It's very accurate compared to most! Another good one is Hyperdia! Highly recommend ONLY these during your travels in Japan. Happy exploring!

Highly recommend it to foreigners when traveling to japan. Best application for finding route by using Subway in Tokyo

Works Great!. I love this app. Works great for me. Invaluable in assisting the navigation to correct trains in Japan.

Unreliable App. Paid for full version. Routing options were incomplete. Found more direct routes by talking to the gate attendants at the train station. Ended up using Google Maps to navigate in Japan.

Very good, recommended. Very well done, can't say anything else

Life savor. If you love to travel your going to like this a lot 😂🎁♥️

Best train app for Japan. I was just in Japan and used several apps to try to get around. After going through 2 different apps I came across this one and did not have to look any further. This app by far exceeded the other apps for train scheduling and what best trains to use. If anyone is looking to go to Japan and needs an app, this one is a MUST HAVE.

Broken garbage. Fails immediately. Continues to fail as you struggle to use it. Paid for upgrade but no upgrade was applied. Use google maps. It’s better and it’s free.

Disappointing not worth it.. We had our own passes purchased direct from JR Rail so it was not very useful. Seemed “marketing heavy” to encourage purchases for other tours.

Don't bother with this battery hog. The app itself seems to work fine. Train line searches and all that. But if it runs in the background (and it will, by default), your battery will drain VERY quickly. I thought my battery was going bad until I discovered the cause--this app. I deleted it and the battery life is back to normal.

Awesome App. This app got me through the Tokyo subway system and made it very easy! Fantastic app!

Deleted. Navigation doesn’t work. No go button.

Best Train Application!. I use this everytime I leave my house. I live in Tokyo and this app tells me what trains to take, has the rail colors, suggests multiple routes, displays the correct prices of each ticket you'll need and is just all around amazing. It can drain your battery pretty quickly, though. To get around this, plan your trip at home with this app, snap a screenshot and retrieve it from the camera roll for later referencing. You WILL fall in love with this app quickly!

Navigation Never Worked. Don’t buy the full feature. Navigation very difficult to follow and slow to update. Google maps worked better. This was only useful in finding train stations and platform.

Won’t let me buy. I would love the app but it will not let me but a subscription no matter how much I try, which severely limits my ability to plan my trip.

Great app for train travel. Just used this app to travel around Japan via train. It's completely accurate and very useful. There were only two drawbacks that I saw that could be fixed down the road. One is to save stations as a favorite versus saving the route. The other would be to show which track should be used for a particular train.

Best Japanese Rail App.... I recently returned from a week long trip in Japan. This app helped me out TREMENDOUSLY with finding rail stations and which trains I should get on/times. I tried others, but this is the only one that would actually work. Thank you for making my week easier!

Super good app. Who says Google is the king of the world. This app blows Google Maps away. Awesome!

Please fix what was a great App. OK Navitime you need to fix the issues that are causing dramatic battery drain due to what appear to be back ground services running. As of now I have uninstalled which solved the drain issue. I installed a competitive App which does;t Adrian my battery… Fix & I’ll reinstall!!!!

So Bad!. Latency is bad. Itinerary function is confusing and useless.

App doesn't locate my position when on map. When I have wi-fi and I tap to locate my current position it doesn't know and gives an error message.

Great help with the fares!. If you are new to Japan, it might be confusing to understand the fare system in the beginning. This app succeeds on giving this support, so you always know how much you are going to pay. Most of the important features are available in the free tier. Must have!

A must have when traveling in Japan. Awesome app gave me all the info i needed to travel around Japan. Train routes , tips everything.

Not that useful. It supplies so wiki info about things to see but then breaks down and is no longer useful.

Always changes, never much help. Even from a short distance this app cannot give you good directions and will constantly give you different routes than the original one you choose. Even when there are trains i know that are faster, the app never shows them. Pretty much useless for Americans.

Battery and Data Usage Drain. It works well, but I had to uninstall this app because was using 62% of my battery and using massive amount of data.

Great App. Very helpful, open it in conjunction with google maps and it kept me on track

Disappointed. Ok for tourists... useless for residents. There is no option for those of us who drive in Japan.

Travel Necessity. I've been using this app for two weeks now traveling all over Japan now and it's been a complete life-saver! I mainly use the route feature, and I love seeing the full line up of train stops for the recommended train lines as it helped me confirm I was on the correct lines. You will need WiFi to use it so make sure you have mobile WiFi or a Japanese SIM card to use it.

Cost money. Anything worth using cost money. Might as well use Google Maps for free.

Doesn’t work/ doesn’t have all stations.. I’m trying to use the Osaka subway route map and it “can’t find” any station I’m trying to search for. Useless!

Absolutely Great. Very helpful app in planning our trip.

Transfer times are no longer available?. The best part about this app was how detailed it used to be. Now the connecting transfers no longer have any time stamps making it hard to easily navigate. Bring back the transfer timeline. Secondly, a feature request is to make sure we can save destinations/stations. This app would be so much better with this information...

Look up subway routes for later. I used this to look up the subway routes I was planning to take each day while sightseeing. You can save routes for reference later when you're offline and I found that really helpful in my travels.

Won’t login on iPhone. I can get it to login perfectly on an iPad, but it keeps saying that the password or email is incorrect when I try to login via my phone.

The best app ever. Seriously couldn’t have navigated around Japan without it.

Waste of Time. Haven’t been able to get it to work from day one! Deleted it and found something else.

Great app!!. If you need a navigation, how to get around japan, guidance on how to take the train this is it for you. I love this app.