EKIGATARI

EKIGATARI portrays each railway station as a person and tells you about the air and stories of its town. Find the stations near you and see each one's personality, town score and history in one place.

Developer: Fuji Bit Inc.

Features:
- Nearby stations: Stations sorted by distance from where you are, with the distance and an estimated walking time.
- Nearby station map: The tracks and stations around you, drawn in their line colors like a night-time route map. Tap a station to open its story.
- Find a station: Search about 9,000 stations across Japan by name, such as stations you plan to visit.
- This station's personality: A short tale told by the station as a character, conveying the mood of its town (written by AI).
- Town score: Six ratings on a 5-star scale: livability, bars, quiet, rent level, first trains and late trains.
- Line and town culture: Keywords that capture each town, such as vintage clothes, live music clubs or used bookstores.
- Station history: The year it opened, former place names, how the town grew, and redevelopment plans.
- Line colors: The lines serving each station appear as colored badges inspired by Japanese station signs.
- Notifications (optional): A station of the day, and a heads-up when you come near a favorite station (your location is used only on your device).
- Premium (one-time in-app purchase, JPY 800): No ads. "Talk with the station" lets you ask a station questions and get answers in its own voice (up to 30 a day), and "Shops nearby" finds popular places to eat near the station, with ratings (up to 20 searches a month).

Stations included:
About 9,000 stations across Japan. At every station you can read the station telling the story of its town (the tales are written by AI). At 175 major stations, in Sapporo, Sendai, Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Kanazawa, Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe, Hiroshima, Takamatsu, Fukuoka, Kagoshima, Naha and more, you can also see the town score, local culture and station history.

Great for:
- Getting a feel for a neighborhood before you move
- Learning about a town before a walk or day out
- Discovering the history of the stations and towns you visit on a trip

About location:
- Your location is used to find nearby stations and, if you turn it on in Settings, to let you know when you come near your favorite stations. Your location itself is never sent to or stored on our servers.
- Without location, you can still explore stations from a demo location (Shinjuku) or search for them by name.

Also:
- Available in 74 languages, including English and Japanese (follows your device's language)
- No login or sign-up
- The basic features are free, with a banner ad at the bottom of the screen. Premium is a one-time in-app purchase

Please note:
- The town scores and station personalities are a rough guide to each town's mood. Check official sources or real estate agents for actual rent, safety and other details.
- Replies in Talk with the station are written by AI and may contain mistakes. Conversations are not stored.
- Shops nearby shows data from Google Maps. Please check opening hours and other details with each shop.