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Editor's Review

Yahoo! Transfer Guide is your all-in-one solution for seamless transit navigation in Japan. This completely free app offers a wealth of features, ensuring you can travel with ease and confidence across the country.

■ Evolving Transit Guide

The app evolves beyond simple station-to-station searches, offering door-to-door navigation. It provides walking route maps to the nearest station, combined with train transfer searches, making it easy to navigate from your current location to any destination, such as Tokyo Sky Tree. The diamond adjustment function allows you to adjust your search based on your actual arrival time at the platform, ensuring you always catch the next available train. The Route Memo feature lets you save frequently used routes, accessible across multiple devices.

■ Definitive Transit App

The app provides comprehensive information, including transfer routes, travel times, and fares for various modes of transport, such as railways, airplanes, fixed-route buses, express buses, and ferries. You can also access detailed information about spots and stations, train delay and suspension updates with push notifications, and timetables for train stations and bus stops nationwide.

■ Transfer Search

The app links seamlessly with maps to provide transfer route information, including walking route maps from your current location. It supports easy input with prediction and voice input functions. Convenient features include one-tap searches for the previous or next train, display of departure and arrival platform numbers, and information about boarding locations near elevators and escalators. You can view stop stations, arrival times, and your current location on the transfer route details screen. The app also allows you to save and share search results via LINE, email, or Google Calendar. Route searches can be filtered by “earliest,” “cheapest,” or “least number of transfers.”

■ Spot Search

You can see nearby stations and routes at a glance, along with information about station exits and facilities. The app also provides access to reviews of popular shops and facilities, allowing you to quickly search for routes to your desired spots.

■ Service Information

The app supports various operation information, including delays, suspensions, and changes in service. You can receive push notifications for delays or cancellations, search X (formerly Twitter) for real-time updates, and post delay status information. It also introduces congestion forecasts to help you avoid crowded routes.

■ Timetable

You can search timetables for train stations and bus stops nationwide, with the ability to tap the time to display a list of stops for the relevant train. The app supports vertical and horizontal display modes and allows you to specify dates and times. You can customize the display by type and destination and save frequently used routes with the My Timetable function.

■ Countdown to Departure Time!

The “Commuting Timer” function counts down the departure time of frequently used stations and automatically switches stations based on the time of day.

With its extensive features and user-friendly interface, Yahoo! Transfer Guide is an essential app for anyone navigating Japan's transit system. Download it today to simplify your travels!

Features

• Transfer route search

• Spot information

• Train delay information

• Train timetable

• Route memo function

• Commuting timer

• Voice input support

• Push notifications

• Congestion forecast

Pros

• Completely free to use

• Evolving transit guide

• Detailed spot information

• Real-time service updates

• Commuting timer function

Cons

• May not work properly with some models

• Push notifications may be affected by power-saving apps