Whateva – Japan Transit Planner Review

For those of you traveling to visit Japan and need a quick and easy way to navigate their wonderful and exceedingly useful public transit system, I highly recommend this app. Recently I went to visit Tokyo with friends who also used all other forms of Japan's metro apps. What took them 5 minutes and affirmation from transit workers, took me less than ten seconds to navigate the system and knew all the proper transfers (all results include variable paths and arrival, departure, first and last train schedules which are updated according to rare changes). This is vital when moving throughout a bustling and jam packed rail system. I also have yet to find an interactive rail guide app that lets you start with a beginning and end point, know all 6 JR rails AND all other competing companies schedules, let's you know which platform to wait on, and to top it all off, this Jorudan is all in English! All you have to do is read the sign that's written in Romanji (English letters) at every station! I was able to go from Tokyo Dome to Shibuya, down to Harajuku, from Akihabara to Ginza and south to Shinagawa, all in one afternoon. No Japanese, absolutely no Japanese rail experience. And I look back at how absurdly inconsequential the price of this app was in relation to fluidity of my tour. Seriously, I can't overstate how many times I used this app while in Japan on tour.
Review by Bluesixdelta on Japan Transit Planner.