Top Tokyo Travel iPhone Apps – Japan Travel iPhone Apps
August 23, 2009 by admin · 2 Comments
Here’s our exclusive list of the best Tokyo related iPhone Apps. Japan can be a beautiful yet bewildering country. A tool like an iPhone can help make your trip go a lot smoother.
So, to make the most out of your trip to Tokyo, Japan, here’s our list of the Top 10 Tokyo iPhone Apps.
Tokyo Underground iPhone Subway Map
App Name: Tokyo Underground
App Description: Complete interactive iPhone map for the Tokyo Subway, a must have if you’re planning on visiting Tokyo, Japan with your iPhone.
Price: $.99
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Tokyo iPhone Travel Guide
App Name: Tokyo iPhone Travel Guide
App Description: Offline Tokyo travel guide with super fast loading page. No internet connection required. Filled with lots of information about all of Tokyo’s neighborhoods with pictures.
Price: $.99
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BuUuk Find Food and Drink iPhone App Tokyo
App Name: BuUuk Find Food and Drink iPhone App Tokyo
App Description: Guide to restuarants in cities all over the world, including Tokyo
Price: Free
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Tokyo Cool – Top Attractions in Tokyo iPhone App
App Name: Tokyo Cool
App Description: Your complete guide to the coolest sites in Tokyo. Very slick app, worth the purchase. You can plan your complete trip before you even leave for Japan
Price: $3.99
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Find! Tokyo – Tokyo Map iPhone App
App Name: Find! Tokyo
App Description: Tokyo can be a huge and confusing city to navigate. This handy little program is easy to use and filled with offline information maps for your use. The program is bi-lingual so you’ll be able to easily find your way around Tokyo
Price: $4.99
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Tokyo Narita Airport Guide iPhone App
App Name: Tokyo Narita Airport Guide iPhone App
App Description: Narita airport is a huge and confusing airport. This iPhone app makes it easy to get around without any trouble. Highly recommended if you’re traveling through Narita Airport.
Price: $1.99
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Lingolook Japan – Japanese Language iPhone App
App Name: Lingolook Japan
App Description: The hardest part about traveling in Japan is the language barrier. Be a little prepared with this really handy Japanese phrase book iPhone app. This will add a lot of value and help your Japanese trip go a lot better.
Price: $4.99
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Tokyo Free Wifi Finder iPhone App
App Name: Free Wifi Tokyo
App Description: The best tool to find free wifi hotspots in Tokyo. It’s cheap and will guide to you all the places you can go for free broadband internet access.
Price: $2.99
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Lonely Planet Tokyo City Guide iPhone
App Name: Lonely Planet Tokyo City Guide
App Description: Lonely Planet, by far, makes the best travel guidebooks apps for the iPhone. They feature the best writing, the best places to visit and provide the best information to make the most of your Tokyo vacation. If you’re going to Tokyo, the Lonely Planet Tokyo Guide is a must buy! Don’t be put off by the price – it’s well worth the money!
Price: $15.99
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English Japanese Dictionary iPhone App
App Name: English-Japanese Dictionary
App Description: This will make a good compliment to the Japanese Phrasebook I wrote about above. This is a straight up English Japanese Dictionary for the iPhone. Show to the word, what it is in Japanese and what the Japanese characters look like. Essential for any trip to Tokyo.
Price: $4.99
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What’s your favorite Tokyo Japan iPhone app?
I used some of the Japanese phrase book apps on iPhone before. Since most Japanese natives won’t speak English, its difficult to establish a two way communication with them even though you say what you want to say.
Base on this shortcoming, I have written an iPhone app myself to tackle with this problem. Its an app that have dialogues divided by places/situations and with the anticipated responses selectable by the party that you are talking with. There is also a “sketch pad” function to jog down station name/product name etc. to help customize communication. The app is called “Decent Japanese Travelling Communicator”. A free lite version is also available at iTune store. Comments are welcome if you have used it!
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id348604385?mt=8
Zazaki
A friend of mine who’s learning Japanese pointed me towards the Kotoba! application. It’s a free app based on open dictionaries that does English Japanese translation. Very cool, although very large on your phone. He also suggested I turn on the Japanese keyboard which you do under the Language settings.