About the app
Tokyo Glance is an iPhone app for seeing what is happening across Tokyo right now. It puts live trains, Toei buses, aircraft, station departures, service alerts, weather, events, landmarks, and public live cameras on one map.
Tokyo Glance is not a route planner. It is built for watching Tokyo move in real time.
The map covers JR, Tokyo Metro, Toei, and the major private railways across Tokyo and the surrounding prefectures. Trains move along their real routes, and the app marks whether a position is genuinely live or based on the timetable, so you always know which you are looking at.
Toei buses run on the same map as the trains, and aircraft approaching Haneda and Narita move above them. Most apps cover one of these. Tokyo Glance shows them in one geographic view, so the city reads as a single moving system rather than three separate trackers.
Open a station to see live departures, first and last trains, and the lines that serve it. Open a landmark to see what runs nearby. Weather, upcoming events, service alerts, and public live cameras sit on the same map, so you can look at an area and understand it without planning a trip through it.
Tokyo Glance works from anywhere. Watch the network move through the morning rush, follow aircraft into Haneda, check the weather and local time, or leave a live camera running. Nothing about the app assumes you are in the city.
Before you travel, the map gives you a feel for scale: how far apart places really are, which lines connect them, and what a day could reasonably hold. In Tokyo, it answers the questions a route planner skips: what is running near me, is my line delayed, how long until the last train.
They answer different questions. A navigation app answers “how do I get from here to there?” Tokyo Glance answers “what is happening around Tokyo right now?” Most people use both: the planner for the route, Tokyo Glance for everything around it.
| What you want | What to use |
|---|---|
| Directions from A to B | A navigation app |
| Buying or reserving tickets | An operator or ticketing app |
| Seeing Tokyo’s trains moving | Tokyo Glance |
| Trains, buses, and aircraft together | Tokyo Glance |
| What is happening around Tokyo now | Tokyo Glance |
| Station departures and service conditions, visually | Tokyo Glance |
| Watching Tokyo from another country | Tokyo Glance |
Yes. Tokyo Glance shows trains moving along their real routes across JR, Tokyo Metro, Toei, and the major private railways, and marks whether each position is live or timetable-based.
No. It does not plan routes. Use a navigation app for directions and Tokyo Glance to see what is moving around you.
Yes. The map is live from anywhere, with no setup and no location required.
Yes. Toei buses and aircraft around Haneda and Narita appear on the same map as the trains.
Yes, free to download on iPhone. Some extras are paid.
No, and the app says so. Live positions and timetable-based movement are labelled differently.
Every line, station, and landmark has its own page, with live departures and first and last trains.
Download
Free on iPhone. Open the app and the map is already live.
