Coming soon: the TOKYO WALKS app

by luis on 12/01/2012

In the last months, we have been working hard on the upcoming City Reporter App for iPad.

It will be a WALKS app, which means it’s not strictly going to be 100% a city report but more a collection of walks through the city. The app is going to be mainly inspirational but also useful if you’d take the iPad with you to the walks: you can read it all when at home before visiting Tokyo and get dreaming about being there but the map view will guide you easily through the place. To help with the inspiration part, each walk has its own soundtrack with sounds from the places described.

The app design and development is in the hands of Cathy Shive and I have done the interface and the contents. I will be posting here more about the making of it.

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There are 3 comments in this article:

  1. 12/01/2012Back in Tokyo - The City Reporter says:

    [...] in the town where all the City Reports started. This time to collect more material for the upcoming TOKYO WALKS iPad [...]

  2. 30/01/2012Maarten says:

    This looks very promising and a great use of technology. But can it be used without internet access? My friend tells me that it’s quite difficult to foreigners to get access.

  3. 30/01/2012luis says:

    Hello Maarten
    yes, it used to be hard to find wi-fi connections in Tokyo but there’s a good solution since some months ago: the pocket wifi. I found this to be very handy when walking around: it’s actually a small modem with a 3G connection you can rent for around 9 euro a day. You pick it up in the airport and put it in any mailbox when you finish your holidays. Check http://www.pupuru.com or http://www.globaladvancedcomm.com/pocketwifi.html

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