USEFULL APPS AND SITES

USEFULL APPS & SITES

📍 Navigation & Transportation

• 📌 Google Maps →

Essential for easy navigation, train schedules, and walking routes.

• 📲 Suica on Apple Wallet → How to Add Suica to Apple Wallet

If you use an iPhone, add a virtual Suica card to pay for trains, buses, and even shopping directly from your phone.

• 🚲 Docomo Bike Share → Docomo Bike Share

Quick and easy bike rentals in major cities like Tokyo and Osaka.

• 🛴 LUUP (Bike & Scooter Rentals) → LUUP App

Rent bikes & scooters with multiple docking stations across Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, and more.
No Japanese driver’s license required – just pass a quick in-app test.

E-SIM providers :

• YESIM

• HOLAFLY (HOLAFLY 5% CODE : TABIMAWARI)

• UBIGI

• AIRALO

• SAILY ( 15% OFF WITH MY CODE : TABIMAWARI)

• DRIMSIM

• SAKURA MOBILE

• JAPAN EXPERIENCE

🎟️ Booking Activities & Experiences

• Klook → Klook Website

Book attractions & activities in advance and enjoy discounts! 📌 Discount code: TABIMAWARI

• GetYourGuide → GetYourGuide

Discover and book unforgettable travel experiences, tours, and tickets.

• Tabelog → Tabelog Japan

Japan’s #1 restaurant listing & review site, perfect for finding great places to eat.

• WABUNKA - Luxe experience dedicated to offering exclusive, private tours and expert-led experiences that immerse travelers in Japan’s rich cultural heritage.
  Japan experience At a reasonable price, you’ll be accompanied by a local English-speaking guides on a tailor-made private tour

🍽️ Food & Special Diets

• Halal Navi → Halal Navi

Helps you find Halal restaurants, mosques, and Halal-friendly shops.

• HappyCow → HappyCow

Find Vegan & Vegetarian restaurants in Japan.

• Tablecheck →TableCheck is a restaurant reservation app that lets you book tables at restaurants & browse menyu.

• Ramen beast → A ramen-focused app that helps you find and track ramen shops, styles, and reviews, mainly used by ramen fans in Japan.

• Byfood : byFood to experience Japanese food beyond restaurants. Book cooking classes, food tours, tea ceremonies, and unique local experiences across Japan. Every booking supports local businesses and helps fight food waste.

🔋 Power & Battery Charging

• Spot Charge → Spot Charge

If you don’t have a power bank, rent one at convenience stores, malls, hotels, restaurants, bars, and entertainment locations.

🗣️ Translation & Communication

• DEEPL → DEEPL Translator

One of the most accurate translation tools for text.

• Google Translate → Google Translate

Great for scanning menus and signs with the camera function.

• PAYKE → payke

Scan products in stores to get translations, ingredients, and explanations in English. Very useful for shopping and cosmetics.

• KULI KULI → Kulikuli Lets you translate menus, signs, labels, and receipts from pictures
  

  STORAGE

• Ecbo cloack →A luggage storage service in Japan that lets you leave your bags in shops, cafés, and stations for a few hours or a full day.

  • Radical storage →A worldwide luggage storage service where you can store bags in local businesses near stations and tourist areas.

  • Bounce→ A luggage storage app that lets you store your bags for a few hours or a full day in local shops and hotels

🌸 Seasonal Apps

• Mymizu → Mymizu

Find free water refill stations, natural springs, and businesses that allow you to refill your bottle (very useful in summer).

• Sakura Navi → Sakura Navi

Track the cherry blossom forecast and find the best viewing spots.

• Ofuro is an app that helps you find and check information about public baths, sento, and onsen across Japan.

🚖 Taxi & Ride-Hailing Apps

• GO App (Japan’s Taxi App) → GO Taxi App

The most widely used taxi app in Japan – book, track your ride, and pay through the app.

• Uber Japan → Uber Japan

Available in some major Japanese cities.

OTHERS

• Flush →A toilet finder app that helps you quickly locate nearby public restrooms.

• Tenkijp → A Japanese weather app providing detailed, local forecasts, rain timing, and seasonal info across Japan.

USEFULL WEBSITE FOR JAPAN

• Fujisan.info

Official information site for Mount Fuji.

Climbing season, weather, trail status, safety updates.

• ZEKKEIJAPAN.COM

Website showcasing scenic viewpoints and landscapes across Japan.

Good for nature, coastlines, mountains, seasonal views.

• JR PASS CALCULATOR

Tool to check if a JR Pass is worth it based on your itinerary.

Helps avoid buying it when it’s not necessary.

• JRWEST RESERVATION

Official site to reserve Shinkansen and limited express trains in western Japan. Useful for Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima area.