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Flock to Tomarigi, the viral app that lets you perch in over 1,000 spots throughout Japan

Elliot Hale
Aug 31, 2026
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Letting virtual travelers swoop in on live webcams and train views across the country.

Japan
(app • COK • Japanese trains • live webcams • livestream • Tomarigi • travel • virtual • web apps)

Earn points by visiting temples throughout Japan with Buddhist sect’s upcoming app

Shannon
Jun 7, 2022

Even 850-year-old traditions are getting with the times.

Japan
(app • Buddhist temple • cool • Jodo • omairi • points • project • smartphone app • temples)

Our cat mom reporter learns how her cats truly feel about her through a cat translation app

Shannon
Jan 6, 2022

Do her cats really love her as much as she thinks they do?

Japan
(animals • app • cats • cool • cute • MeowTalk • NyanTalk • pets • SNJO)

Young people in Tokyo to be offered points and discounts if they get vaccinated

Katie Pask
Aug 15, 2021

It pays to be vaccinated… literally!

Japan
(app • cashless • corona • coronavirus • coronavirus. COVID-19 • COVID-19 Contact-Confirming Application • points • Tokyo • vaccination • vaccine)

Have trouble waking up on time? New Japanese app Mezamee will charge you when you sleep in

Scott Wilson
Apr 24, 2021

“Oh no, my breakfast money!”

Japan
(app • mazamee • sleeping • smartphone • waking up)

Want to know who voices that one character in the anime you’re watching? There’s an app for that

Dale Roll
Dec 26, 2020

With the magic of smartphones, find out who’s starring in an anime while barely even lifting a finger.

Japan
(anime • app • fandom • otaku • smart phones • voice actors • voice actresses)

Host clubs go digital in the wake of business closures with live-streaming app toU

Dale Roll
Apr 16, 2020

The clubs themselves might be closed, but you can still spend time with your favorite host, even if you can’t physically be with him.

Japan
(app • coronavirus • COVID-19 • host clubs • hosts • influencer • live stream)

Japanese Twitter obsessed with app that revives the VHS camcorder recording quality of the ‘80s

Dale Roll
Aug 24, 2019

The app turns your high quality smartphone camera into a handheld VHS camcorder!

Japan
(1980s • 1990s • 80s • 90s • app • camera • cool • funny • Japanese Twitter • nostalgic • VHS • videos)

Japanese man invented an app that visualizes how much sugar is in a drink, and everyone wants it

Dale Roll
Jul 19, 2019

The app isn’t even available yet, but people are clamoring to get it!

Japan
(app • diet • diet app • health • nutrition • nutrition app • soda • soft drinks • sugar)

We get a ton of Starbucks goodies brought to our doorstep for a delivery cost of just 110 yen

Koh Ruide
Nov 14, 2018

For a paltry sum, you can now have Uber Eats deliver delicious Starbucks beverages and snacks right into your hands.

Japan
(app • cheap • coffee • home delivery • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Uber • Uber Eats • Yuichiro Wasai)

Want to be guided around Tokyo by a ninja? With an upcoming app, now you can!

Dale Roll
Oct 28, 2018

You could also request a translator or a photographer, but who wants that when you can have a ninja?!

Japan
(app • cool • Japan travel • Ninja • online services • travel app • useful app)

Jump magazine releases YouTube style app for manga, gives 100% ad revenue to content creators

Master Blaster
May 9, 2018

Jump Rookie may be the best thing to happen to manga since big glassy eyes.

Japan
(app • jump • Jump Rookie • manga • Shonen Jump)

YouTuber takes horror to the next level by recreating Sadako’s spooky TV screen exit in AR【Video】

Krista Rogers
Mar 5, 2018

There are many practical uses for the Apple ARKit, and scaring the living daylights out of your children is most certainly one of them.

Japan
(app • Apple • Apple ARKit • AR • Horror • iOS • Ringu • Sadako • The Ring • video)

Japanese netizens fall in love with groovy augmented reality navigation app 【Video】

Richard Simmonds
Nov 28, 2017

Japanese iPhone users happy to be shown around by “Uncle AR“, the grooviest wayfinder app guide ever.

Japan
(app • augmented reality • hotstepper • iOS • iPhone • Navigation • twitter)

Japanese Android OBJECT project might soon be taking your life to the 22nd century

KK Miller
Mar 2, 2017

Android experiment OBJECT took over 200 submissions for ideas and produced these four futuristic products.

Japan
(Android • app • cool • OBJECT experiment • technology • video)

Ladies, prepare to be romanced by a hot guy with a horse’s body in this bizarre new dating app

Krista Rogers
Oct 10, 2016

Ever dream of being kabe-doned by a horse? Neither did we, but now you can in the new Horse Prince game…and no, we’re not horsing around.

Japan
(app • game • Horse • Horse Prince • smartphone • wtf)

Better than a Ouija board: Spot Message helps you communicate beyond the veil

Michelle Hughes
Sep 13, 2016

You’ll literally be able to hear hello from the other side.

Japan
(Android • app • iPhone • Spot Message • tombstone)

Spy on a hot prisoner with amnesia in Capcom’s new mobile romance sim

Evie Nyan
Sep 2, 2016

In this newly-released mobile romance app from Capcom, players must find clues to a crime by spying on an incarcerated mega-hottie with amnesia…

Japan
(app • Capcom • dating sim • romance • toraware no paruma • video game • visual novel)

Problems drawing body parts hampering your manga artist aspirations? Let this app lend you a hand

Master Blaster
Aug 3, 2016

Who’s got two thumbs and likes to help artists? Handy Art Reference Tool does!

Global, Internet
(app • art • drawing • hands • manga)

aDanza: Japan’s wild music player app featuring dancing alpacas, sumo wrestlers and more! 【Video】

KK Miller
Dec 14, 2015

With a tagline of “So kimoi (strange), so kawaii (cute)”, we knew we had to check this out.

Japan
(aDanza • app • dance • funny • iTunes • music • music player)

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