Audio Tours in Japan: Tokyo, Kyoto, Hiroshima, Fukuoka…

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Tokyo · 8 Kyoto · 4 Hiroshima · 2 Fukuoka · 1 Hakone · 1 Hatsukaichi (Miyajima) · 1 Himeji · 1 Itoman · 1 Kamakura · 1 Kanazawa · 1 Kobe · 1 Matsumoto · 1 Matsuyama · 1 Nagasaki · 1 Nagoya · 1 Naha · 1 Nara · 1 Nikko · 1 Osaka · 1 Sapporo · 1 Sendai · 1 Yokohama · 1

Cities with audio tours in Japan

Tokyo · 8 tours · ~7 days

The Last Samurai: How Japan Shut Down for 250 Years and Then Opened All at Once
25 min audio · 10 stops · 4.2 km · ~1 h 30 min total · starts at Senso-ji: Japan Before the Tokugawa Shut It All Down
Edo: the City of a Million People Europe Didn't Know Existed
20 min audio · 12 stops · 17.32 km · ~4 h 45 min total · starts at The Shogun's Hunting Garden
Asakusa: the District That Burned Twice and Opened Again on Monday
18 min audio · 12 stops · 4.17 km · ~1 h 30 min total · starts at The Thunder Gate
Yakuza: Organised Crime With a Nameplate on the Door
22 min audio · 12 stops · 28.76 km · ~7 h 45 min total · starts at Marked by the Law
The Meiji Era: the Country That Reinvented Itself in One Generation
21 min audio · 12 stops · 12.73 km · ~3 h 45 min total · starts at A Manufactured Forest
Akihabara: From Black-Market Radios to the Manga That Conquered the World
21 min audio · 12 stops · 16.33 km · ~4 h 30 min total · starts at The Station That Disappeared
The 47 Ronin: Japan's Most Famous Revenge and What It Says About Honour
23 min audio · 12 stops · 20.87 km · ~5 h 45 min total · starts at The Corridor of Pines
Tokyo, 10 March 1945: the Deadliest Air Raid in History
18 min audio · 12 stops · 12 km · ~3 h 30 min total · starts at A Gate That Is Not So Old

Kyoto · 4 tours · ~3 days

Kyoto: The Samurai and the Japan That Almost Vanished
23 min audio · 12 stops · 8 km · ~2 h 30 min total · starts at A Temple for a Ghost
Gion: the Closed World of the Geisha That Survived the Twentieth Century
21 min audio · 12 stops · 4.19 km · ~1 h 30 min total · starts at A Woman on the Riverbank
Kyoto Zen: Fifteen Stones No One Can See at Once
20 min audio · 12 stops · 23.87 km · ~6 h 30 min total · starts at The Tiger Crossing the Water
Honno-ji: the Dawn They Betrayed the Man Who Was About to Unify Japan
20 min audio · 12 stops · 49.06 km · ~12 h 45 min total · starts at The Enemy Is at Honno-ji

Hiroshima · 2 tours · ~1 day

8:15 AM, August 6, 1945
24 min audio · 12 stops · 2 km · ~1 h total · starts at The A-Bomb Dome: Why It Still Stands
Hibakusha: Those Who Survived the Bomb and Then Had to Survive the Silence
20 min audio · 12 stops · 9.89 km · ~3 h total · starts at The Word That Did Not Exist

Fukuoka · 1 tour · ~1 day

Fukuoka: Japan's Front Door, Where the Mongols Nearly Came In
22 min audio · 12 stops · 12.04 km · ~3 h 30 min total · starts at A Gold Seal for the King of Na

Hakone · 1 tour · ~1 day

Hakone: Mount Fuji, the Tokaido and the Barrier That Watched the Shogun's Travellers
22 min audio · 12 stops · 26.16 km · ~7 h total · starts at Yumoto: Gateway to the Mountains

Hatsukaichi (Miyajima) · 1 tour · ~1 day

Miyajima: the Island So Sacred No One Could Be Born or Die There
18 min audio · 12 stops · 7.13 km · ~2 h 15 min total · starts at Arriving on the Island of the Gods

Himeji · 1 tour · ~1 day

Himeji: the White Castle Designed So No One Could Reach the Keep
19 min audio · 12 stops · 9.61 km · ~2 h 45 min total · starts at The White Heron

Itoman · 1 tour · ~1 day

The Battle of Okinawa: the Bloodiest of the Pacific and What Isn't Taught
24 min audio · 12 stops · 55.11 km · ~14 h 15 min total · starts at The Cave of the Day After

Kamakura · 1 tour · ~1 day

Kamakura: the City Where the Samurai Took Power From the Emperor
21 min audio · 12 stops · 12.6 km · ~3 h 45 min total · starts at The Buddha Left Without a Roof

Kanazawa · 1 tour · ~1 day

Kanazawa: the City of Gold and Samurai That the Bombs Never Touched
25 min audio · 13 stops · 6.62 km · ~2 h 15 min total · starts at The Market of the City That Was Spared

Kobe · 1 tour · ~1 day

Kobe: the Twenty Seconds That Brought Down a City and the Years It Took to Rise Again
21 min audio · 12 stops · 27.27 km · ~7 h 15 min total · starts at An Island Made of Mountains

Matsumoto · 1 tour · ~1 day

Matsumoto: the Crow Castle That Survived the Auction and the Lean
23 min audio · 13 stops · 10.68 km · ~3 h 15 min total · starts at The Crow in the Water

Matsuyama · 1 tour · ~1 day

Shikoku: the 88-Temple Pilgrimage and the Pilgrim Who Never Walks Alone
25 min audio · 12 stops · 49.52 km · ~13 h total · starts at The Temple Hanging from the Rock

Nagasaki · 1 tour · ~1 day

Nagasaki: Japan's Window on the World and the Bomb That Fell Because of a Cloud
20 min audio · 12 stops · 10.71 km · ~3 h total · starts at An Island to Lock Up Europe

Nagoya · 1 tour · ~1 day

Nagoya: Oda Nobunaga, the Great Fool Who Began to Unite Japan After a Century of War
25 min audio · 12 stops · 38.42 km · ~10 h total · starts at The Castle Before the Castle

Naha · 1 tour · ~1 day

Okinawa: the Ryukyu Kingdom, Which Traded with Half of Asia for 450 Years
22 min audio · 12 stops · 52.92 km · ~13 h 45 min total · starts at The Gate of the Land of Propriety

Nara · 1 tour · ~1 day

Nara: the First Capital, the Giant Buddha and the Deer Who Stayed
20 min audio · 12 stops · 10.69 km · ~3 h total · starts at A Capital Copied From China

Nikko · 1 tour · ~1 day

Nikko: the Mausoleum That Turned a Shogun Into a God
19 min audio · 12 stops · 25.51 km · ~6 h 45 min total · starts at The Bridge of Snakes

Osaka · 1 tour · ~1 day

Osaka: the Castle of the Peasant Who Came to Rule Japan
19 min audio · 12 stops · 13.72 km · ~3 h 45 min total · starts at The Monkey Who Became a General

Sapporo · 1 tour · ~1 day

Sapporo: the Ainu, the People Who Were in Hokkaido Before Japan
23 min audio · 12 stops · 94.02 km · ~24 h total · starts at The Forest the Ainu Knew

Sendai · 1 tour · ~1 day

Sendai: the One-Eyed Dragon of the North Who Sent a Samurai to the Pope
22 min audio · 13 stops · 33.27 km · ~8 h 45 min total · starts at The Samurai Who Went to See the Pope

Yokohama · 1 tour · ~1 day

Yokohama: the Fishing Village Japan Handed to the West
20 min audio · 12 stops · 5.81 km · ~1 h 45 min total · starts at Four Ships That Kept a Country Awake

Why an audio tour

✓ No group to keep up with and no guide to wait for
✓ Start at any time of day, on your own schedule
✓ Go at your own pace: pause, rewind or skip any stop
✓ No need to commit 2 or 3 hours to a single tour: do one stop or the whole route
✓ Works offline once downloaded

Trevurs is a free app for iOS and Android. There is also an optional Premium version, from USD 1.99, with unlimited offline downloads, access to every tour and no ads. It also helps keep an independent app alive.

Questions about audio tours in Japan

Where can I use Trevurs in Japan?

In 22 cities: Tokyo (8 tours), Kyoto (4 tours), Hiroshima (2 tours), Fukuoka (1 tour), Hakone (1 tour), Hatsukaichi (Miyajima) (1 tour), Himeji (1 tour), Itoman (1 tour), Kamakura (1 tour), Kanazawa (1 tour), Kobe (1 tour), Matsumoto (1 tour), Matsuyama (1 tour), Nagasaki (1 tour), Nagoya (1 tour), Naha (1 tour), Nara (1 tour), Nikko (1 tour), Osaka (1 tour), Sapporo (1 tour), Sendai (1 tour), Yokohama (1 tour).

How many days do I need for all the audio tours in Japan?

Roughly 30 days of touring at a relaxed pace, not counting travel between cities: Tokyo 7 days, Kyoto 3 days, Hiroshima 1 day, Fukuoka 1 day, Hakone 1 day, Hatsukaichi (Miyajima) 1 day, Himeji 1 day, Itoman 1 day, Kamakura 1 day, Kanazawa 1 day, Kobe 1 day, Matsumoto 1 day, Matsuyama 1 day, Nagasaki 1 day, Nagoya 1 day, Naha 1 day, Nara 1 day, Nikko 1 day, Osaka 1 day, Sapporo 1 day, Sendai 1 day, Yokohama 1 day.

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