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Sounds of Japan
711 field recordings from Japan, from 7 towns and cities, recorded between 1970 and 2026. Listen to parks & gardens, crowds & voices and streets & traffic and much more.
711 recordings
7 cities
57 recordists
1970–2026 years
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Early in the morning at the Tsukiji Fish Market – Chūō
0:00
Nihonbashi - Thunder Upon the Bridge – Chūō
1:20
Kannonyama rice fields - Kodama? – Kameyama
2:51
Answer to hendrik / tokyo to berlin Sound at the closed kiosk /imbiss Wunden - radio aporee 17.01.2008 22:20:35 Roppongi Itchome Station, Japan The Dodonpa Rollercoaster at Fuji Q High Land 2007.03.27, tokio, pachinko, strommusik.org Waiting in line for the Fujiyama rollercoaster at Fuji Q Hig Yokohama, harbour park, sea waves Yokohama, harbour park, traffic sign Yokohama, harbour park, announcement Yokohama, parking garage, announcement Yokohama, game hall Yokohama, game hall Tokyo, airport, moving staircase Tokyo, airport, announcement Yokohama, chinatown, panda toy Yokohama, chinatown, man with bell Yokohama, drain and waste water at the street Yokohama, street construction Yokohama, landmark tower, sound installation Yokohama, landmark tower, moving staircase Yokohama, colette mare, sale Yokohama, train station, ticket machine Yokohama, train station, ticket gates Yokohama, walk way to sakuragi subway station Yokohama, railway bridge, train Yokohama, hotel elevator Yokohama, queens square, moving staircase Yokohama, queens square, sound installation Yokohama, queens square, announcement, installation, jingle Yokohama, queens square, moving staircase, announcement Yokohama, kaat theatre, public interview Yokohama, post office Yokohama, subway entrance Yokohma, traffic sign Yokohama, fountain at stadium Yokohama, city office, entrance bell Yokohama, city air terminal Tokyo, airport, bus transit Tokyo, airport, luggage belt Enoshima black-eared kites & squirrels Kamakura Kencho-Ji Ryuo-den Cash machine さくらの滝 さくらの滝２ Ohotsuku ocean A vending machine In the cloudy sky Ride towards the Kansai airport High pitch beam Escalator voice Recorded on my way to the supermarket Maruetsu-supermarket Children play in suburban park in Tokyo(Chiba Level b1 Water splashes Basball practice Entrance to Shitennoji Temple Shrine procedure Water pump Droplets from a bamboo pipe Chanting + bell Garage activity Watch vendor Rattle of air-conditioning grating Sunday picnic Takoyaki stall Manual water pump Flyover rumble Exit from Yurakucho Station Morning sounds out of the window Parking a firetruck Grating rattle Toden Arakawa Tram Line crossing Bikes crossing streets near convenient store Bustling alley Evening reception Birds in damp air Japanese excursion Park ambience Subway ride 3 station Ride on the only tram line in tokyo Playground Evening picnic Drain Construction site area Basaball game on tv Resting man with a radio West entrance Juggler performance Shintō believers at the shrine Speaker announcement Passengers gathering at the platform Around the fountain Wind from the elevator Ferris wheel Underpass steps Water over rocks Evening commuters Full moon contemplation Toast place Conjurers Sunday afternoon Jammed bike rental machine Announcement in the park Food alley Sounds of the streets on the way to hotel At the table Frogs in Rice Paddies Cicadas and Thunder Cicadas at Kamogawa Park Crickets in Takano Playground Skyliner, 9'08'' Skyliner, 3'21'' The sound of a fish mouths, elongating out of the cloudy pon Wooden sticks, moved by wind Wooden sticks, moved by wind Wooden sticks oracle Bamboo sticks, wind, few steps on an empty street Winds through lotus leaves 54th floor tokyo soundscape Below skydeck Lunch time Streets crossings aftrenoon sound scape Walk around one of the buildings Walk along the street Afternoon emptiness Poem of a miniature waterfall, microphones and black crows Infinite path to eternity Tiny noodle soup restaurant Full moon rises above kamakura sea Ride Diving through deep greenish blue Slow walk down and toward the edges Steps flow Gardens sonority Metro voices Mics poema flux Musicians, homeless people, workers, walkers Wind, bamboo, stony wall, walk Tinwhistler Metro voices Central gate, approaching exit Nightwalk Pond reflecting skyscrapers and white bird Shishi-odoshi Shishi-odoshi Enjoying afterwards Gardens sonority Gardens sonority Street window Street window Crows Stones, marsh, red bridge Hayama Danchi Mochitsuki New Year 2014 Temple Bells At sundown Gardens sonority Wind bells Antique shop Evening streets Noodle soup restaurant Noodle soup restaurant Dusk Silent corridors Helicopter Birds Small bridge Holes, stone Tokyo metro - crowded tokyo trains and their silence Coffe bar, ladies, chat Hase-kannon Garden path Fish market, under JR railway tracks Tokyo trains Pee Wee Baseball Practice Field Recording Yasugawa Small Rapids Thunder Shower Osaka_Namba-Shopping 5pm Tannoy announcement Shinto chants from Temple Tokyo metro - location lost Night train Along Biwako near Chomeiji Notogawa Suisha Kyoto - scent of rain and honeyed old wood Autumn sounds Stream Water stream, walk along, rocks and sand Small garden and suzumushi Stairs, meadow behind the fence Near the daimon doors, bird Stone path, walk Wooden clogs Stone path, wooden clogs, walking After the rain, standing still, flow of steps on sand and wo Homage to John Cage, reading ”Lecture on Nothing” Drops of water Water drops, slippers on wooden floor Suikinkutsu Chōzubachi, bamboo tube, water drops Walking the wooden floor Rain, drops, crow, steps, murmur of people Rain drops onto stones and rainwater Gardens sonority With helicopter Flux of steps It rains, shues in plastic bags Raindrops on dry rock garden and kawara Rain Train station voices Train and passengers Shinkansen, passengers trains, cargo, crows At 20:00, every night Nocturnal, rain Wooden corridor, rainy night Quiet evening Morning rain, soft fluid scapes Walking the wooden floor Facing ocean Waterfall, gravel river stream Infinite path to eternity, Kyoto Crossings sonority Crossings sonority Broken halogen, fast train passing Old spirits Seven stones and white sand, eight stones and black sand Small bridge, golden fishes Bar, downtown Kyoto Bar, downtown Kyoto Water drop staccato Golden umbrella, borrowed, and left for another to borrow Graveled ocean Bus 206 Chōzubachi, one drop Toilet, ladies Walk, sand, stones, dry grass River flow, ambience Walk along Unccany Rain Rain Rain Rain Rain Crossings sonority Kyoto - bus to Royanji What is there about this garden, synonym for silence Several hundred years, fifteen stones, counted again and aga Bamboo tube, flux New Year 2015 Temple Bells and Fireworks Wind in Young Bamboo Bistro Meiji Jingu Ochanomizu Station Trainsong Akihabara Kamakura Crossing Hasedera Prayers Kamakura view Japonia - Kamakura Seaside Caffe veloce Rain Rain, steps Dim lights, where tiger drinks water Quietly, rain Walkers People and their breath(lessness) Snail slow moving line of people Water flux Golden coins, red fishes, piled happiness Park Performers Rattling prayers Artificial voices, one ore two passengers Gardens sonority Red leaves, gray gravel carpet Steps Path, Shoseien, Kyoto Dark green lights, subtle maple leaves ornaments above Sweep Still Soft rain Rain Fish Walking Water flux Walking People Streams Dim lights, windows wide open November winds, tree Quiet garden Facing wavy gravel ocean Walking Crossings sonority Kaki Six red silent buckets Soft rain of trees seeds Crossings sonority Kyoto - kyoto bus Gardens sonority Rivers Again, rivers Roadworks Rain Drain Enoshima station Japonia - Enoshima Drums Japanese bush warbler, pheasant, and crows Kyoto - Kyoto, embarcadère Flagpoles in Wind Frogs Silver wings jam session The very windy north of Japan Squeaky moorings Tout en même temps Gameboy garbagetruck Speed Mermaids Rock and roll Airplane and Boat at Lake Biwa near Okishima Pachinko Yasugawa Fireworks Biwako Waves Iriomote Jima - Iriomote Jima (daytime and night-time record Hatsumode - Hatsumode / 01.Jan.2009 Pachinko parlor Shibuya center-gai street Yatais@Meiji Shrine National Noh Theatre Gong of Mizusawa Temple - Gong of Mizusawa Templel Nihonbashi - Thunder Upon the Bridge Nakamise-dori, Kawasaki Daishi Utsunoya Pass - Gero Gero Seki - Dawn on Kameyama Kannonyama rice fields - Kodama? Mii-dera Sanjo Ohashi - Sanjo Ohashi - No Ceremony Hatonomori Park in Summer Yamanote line Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden Meiji Shrine Gyoen Meiji Shrine Gyoen 2 Railroad crossing The street leading to the Ikebukoro Crane soundscape Crane soundscape Crane soundscape Crane soundscape Crane soundscape Crane soundscape Crane soundscape Blakistons Fish Owl Chime Dragon Petite rue soir / flute Turtle beach Shamisen Shamisen New Year 2017 Temple Bells and Fireworks Yasugawa Riverside Park Bird sound speaker at the train station The chiming speaker at the exit of the Tokyo International F Pedestrian warning sounds when crossing the road Zenkō-ji Temple Bell Drumming and chanting in one of the buildings of the Zenkō-j Early in the morning at the Tsukiji Fish Market Trying to find a way out Listening in the Oriental Lounge, 38 floors above street lev Sapporo Clock Tower strikes 12 Great Cormorants Nesting Japanese bush warbler Cicada Cicadas at the end of Summer Typhoon from inside the house Takano Shrine on a Windy December Day New Year 2018 Temple Bells and Fireworks Crows at Ichimiyake Great Cormorants Nesting Egret rookery Helicopters Children excercise Birds from speakers Violin practice Sweeping Fast lane Baseball practice Charging area Floor polishing Food court Gate in the forest Beetle baseball Bite of typhoon Chanting Rain colector Sunny cafe Shopping street Sound pole 201811241756 JR Yamashina Station Roundabout Train Crossing 201811302220 JR Kyoto Station Kosei Line Platform Gurgling irrigation pipe Tachiki Kannon Anyo-Ji - New Years Gongs at Tachiki Kannon 201812241051 Wani Public Tennis Court and Athletic Ground Wind in Bamboo Kamogawa Okinawa Akihabara Tokyo - In front of Patchinko Hall Akihabara Tokyo - Shopping mall Hakone - Public Bus Shin-Kobe Station - Shinkansen platform Hiroshima Peace Park - Peace bell Stones statues of fox 日本、〒603-8076 京都府京都市北区上賀茂山本町２８ - Kamigamo Shrine, 上賀茂神社, 小川のせ 202006151758 Tenmangu Public Park 202006221826 Bairin Childrens Playground 202006221842 Frogs in a Rice Paddy by a Road 202007051434 Fukuda Art Museum, 2F Gallery Hiroshima taxi ride to the Shinkansen Koenji at night Mt. Aso Autumn Crickets Banners in Light Breeze at Miyajidake Shrine Tethered Squid Fishing Boats Whistling Fence at the Onset of a Typhoon 3000 Glass Wind Chimes at Byodoji Grasshoppers Seem to Enjoy a Humid Afternoon Together while Aioichou Summer Festival Opening Frogs Meiji Steel Works Wooden House Construction Tagawa River Crossing Festival Tobata Gion Oyamagasa Lantern Festival Opening Suitcase Water Scoop Earth Mills in Cool Shade New Year's Day Prayers Before Yasaka Shrine Reed Warblers on the Flood Plains of Chikugo Gawa Noisy Ferry Crossing School Children Playing Bamboo Flutes Kyoto Keage Hydroelectric Power Station Tramway de Kyoto 1997 Nozaki Island Emergency Warning System Test Before Bedtime at a Campsite in Miyazaki City Centre Batting Range Kyūdō Practice High School Baseball Practice Night Red-crowned crane ... soundscape Red-crowned crane soundscape Manazuru Port Dawn, Sunday Fish Market Kotogahama Beach Yacht harbor Kibune Jinja, shrine Kibune Jinja, Shrine, Marina Old sewing machine Iwa Beach Ohayashi, Manazuru peninsula Ohayashi, Manazuru peninsula Tsuyazaki Gion Yamakasa Festival Opening TAKANODAI station Train Crickets and Phasing Trains 蝉しぐれ 5 O'Clock Dvořák The Gasman Ueno crossing Ueno Bridge Ueno station platform, JR Line Inside Ueno station Baseball kids Koroen Neon tube solo Cuckoo-style traffic lights for the blind Katahoko Pond Ambience Kobe Nunobiki Herb Gardens&RopewayBy walking Heijo Palace Site Track work near Tamachi station Rainy Sunday Mood in Kobe 3F GIGO UMIE Mosaic Birds at Noon A customer is trying out a guitar at a shop in Ochanomizu Enoshima cave, Pacific waves and some magic The waterwheel of Hōheikyō Hot Spring Miyajidake Wind Chimes Echo Lake Night in Akiyoshidai Frogs Haunted House Troll Cheese Rope Firework Reflections Miuda headland Miuda rockpools Miuda insect nightlife_bank Miuda insect nightlife_long grass Toyotama RIver Night_rays feeding Rain on Toyotama River Toyotama River surface Floorboards of the Soh clan temple Rice fields Beneath a fruiting Icho tree Aso bay windbreak Miso bay rockpools Menace and caress 日本、〒806-0042 福岡県北九州市八幡西区桜ケ丘町３−１０ - Chikuho Dentetsu 1 日本、〒822-0001 福岡県直方市感田 感田駅 - Chikuho Dentetsu 2 VJQX+JH 日本、福岡県芦屋町 - Jets 日本、〒812-0053 福岡県市東区東区箱崎１丁目２２−１ - Hakazaki Shrine Tamaseseri 日本、〒818-0195 福岡県太宰府市宰府４丁目７−１ 太宰府天満宮 - Dazaifu Tenmangu Relig 日本、〒818-0117 福岡県太宰府市宰府４丁目７−３７ - Dazaifu Tenmangu Men Working 日本、〒818-0117 福岡県太宰府市宰府２丁目７−２１ - Dazaifu Mochi Shop 日本、〒818-0117 福岡県太宰府市宰府２丁目７−１５ - Dazaifu Studio Ghibli Shop Giravanz Fans Trial Supermarket 1 Trial Supermarket 2 Trial Supermarket 3 Tram & Ambulance 火の用心 (Fire Wardens) Ema Plaques Weatherbeaten Ferry Terminal Recycling Center Comos Chekout Sports Hall Macaws Car Wash 日本、〒241-0815 神奈川県横浜市旭区中尾１丁目１ - cyclic female voice from tick 日本、〒231-0062 神奈川県横浜市中区桜木町１丁目１ - Escalator for subway Seika Girls Highschool Marching Band Nokonoshima Playground Shimonoseki Wharf Live Fish Pens 姫路城6階と神社 Car engine noises at tunnel exit 2W401 Venetian Blinds Roller Slide Uguisu in Polan Square Birds and frogs Steam Cleaners Summer Stream with Cicadas Stream and Cicadas Summer Stream with Birds Beside the Stream The Sound of the River and Faint Music Morning rice fields Gare de Kyoto Ambiance au sanctuaire Hirano Des enfants joue au pachinko Hockey Practice Oguni Chimes Demonstration for Palestine Trains passing by on the bridge Étourneaux Old man talking in front of visitors Starling in a tree G Line between Asakusa and Ueno Open air christian mass and crickets Handpan and percussion orchestra In the Dahlia garden Installation for chidlren Climbing up a tower and panorama Garden ambience JR station ambience Shinkansen train leaving for Nagoya Shinkansen train leaving for Tokyo Hakone Tozan line train Wet road, rainy day Nijo station platform ambience Fountain at Gio Ji temple Otagi Temple Otagi Temple 3 bells for peace Ceremony High tide at Itsukushima Shrine Miyajima high tide Koenji Station Kyobashi river bank Pebble Beach Tombi Calling Jungle Meiji Jingu Gyoen ambience Shinjuku JR platform ambience Vending Machines JR line to Shinjuku Shinkansen hall ambience The sounds of rural frogs echoing through the forest recesse Uno, Waiting in the train Teshima OsakaTrainFromKansaiAirportToOsaka_10-12-2024 Kyokusui no Utage Procession Kumamoto, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan - Koi Nishiki market - market Yasaka Street - yasaka.wav Cafe Loto - loto.wav Delifrance - deliverance.wav Late Afternoon Birdsong Waves at Kamakura Nagataya restaurant ambience Street, people and a crow Pas sur le gravier Crickets at night Tennis Practice Hanami matsuri, Katsunumabudokyo station Ōhikage Tunnel Umbrella rack The Trees Listen Frogs Bats Sakaori Forest Glade Erinji Temple matsuri walking through food stalls Erinji Temple Taiko Performance Erinji Garden and Zazen Erinji Nightingale Floor static long Fuefuki Maglev Train Viewing Point HP Dazaifu Frog Pond Sweet potato (yakiimo) truck Tree Frogs Wind cave Fujikawaguchiko drips Frog Pond Bicycle-parking area Bicycle-parking area2 Rain sound Rain in house Rain sound2 Car and wind Birds, flying jet Big printer Big printer2 Carl stone playing ielectribe Maintenance hatch Far frogs Near frogs Subway Jyosui station Train Meitetsu Nagoya Station C-Square Lightning Bugs 経 kyo Late Summer Cicadas Afternoon Song IUJ, Urasa, Japan Inside shinkhansen train Inside shinkhansen train Takasaki, public swimming pool Takasaki, baseball stadium Takasaki, store, manga department Takasaki, store, entrance area Takasaki, kaminakai, rice field In the airplane - approaching tokio airport Tokio, ueno station Takasaki, kaminakai, frogs in rice field Nagano expy, highway restaurant Matsumoto, traffic signs Masumoto - inside castle Masumoto - inside castle - masumoto - inside castle 02 Takasaki, kaminakai, thunderstorm Masumoto - castle garden Takasaki, public pool, ball play Tokyo - kiyosumishirakawa - train station Tokyo, airport, passport control Tokyo - kiyosumishirakawa garden - lake Tokyo, kiyosumishirakawa garden, cicades Tokyo, kiyosumishirakawa garden, closing bell Tokyo, shugoarts gallery, opening Takasaki, ballet studio Tokyo, akihabara station Tokyo, akihabara, electronic store Tokyo, akihabara, maid cafe Tokyo, akihabara, maid cafe Tokyo, akihabara street atmosphere REMIX BY ME Tokyo, akihabara, street atmosphere Tokyo, akihabara, street atmosphere Tokyo, ueno station, ticket machines Tokyo, inside subway Tokyo, asakusa, stores, wind bells Tokyo, asakusa, temple, money ceremony Tokyo, asakusa station, drummer Takasaki, small street, birds on wire Takasaki, at a railway crossing Nikkō, tōshō-gushrine, walkway Nikkō, tōshō-gu shrine, walkway Nikkō, tōshō-gu shrine, plateau Nikkō, tōshō-gu shrine, path of the 200 steps Nikkō, tōshō-gu shrine, inside temple buildin Nikkō, tōshō-g shrine, dragon temple Nikkō, tōshō-g shrine, walkway Takasaki, construction store Takasaki, fish supermarket Tokyo, airport, terminal 1 Pounding mochi in Nara by Biagio Azzarelli Gamecenter in Nakano_Tokyo 15.Dez.07 by I.Hoffmann Children at school at aoyama rec. by I.Hoffmann Girls at harajuku rec by I. Hoffmann Ticketgate at harajuku Girlsshop at harajuku Yoyogipark rec. by I.Hoffmann Entrance at yodabashi camera at 6 p.m 17.12.2007 Entrance at yodabashi camera at 6 p.m 17.12.2007 - advertisi Shinjuku/advertising at 6.30 p.m /17.12.07 JR Line at 7 p.m. /17.12.07 Ticketmachine at harajuku at 4. p.m. 17.12.07 Ritual handcleaning infront of meiji temple 3 p.m Keisei skyline announcement 19.12.07 2 pm Silent prayer at meiji temple 17.12.07 / 2pm At the corner in nakano 18.12.07 /3.30 pm Patchinko a hell of gamecenter Vending machine for hot and cold drinks Feierabend at the walkingpassage Patchinko hell of gamecenter2 Gamecenter 20.dez.2007 at 6 pm Productannouncement at cosmetic shop 20.dez 6.20pm Feierabend at the train Feierabend at the ticketgate 20.12.2007 German french baby in tokyo Japan
Featured recordings
Mii-dera
Ōtsu, Japan
2:49 2015
Early in the morning at the Tsukiji Fish Market
Chūō, Japan
2017
Nihonbashi - Thunder Upon the Bridge
Chūō, Japan
1:19 2015
Kannonyama rice fields - Kodama?
Kameyama, Japan
2:51 2016
Utsunoya Pass - Gero Gero
Shizuoka, Japan
1:10 2016
Red-crowned crane ... soundscape
Kushiro, Japan
4:07 2008
Zenkō-ji Temple Bell
Nagano, Japan
2017
Sanjo Ohashi - Sanjo Ohashi - No Ceremony
Kyoto, Japan
1:12 2015
Tachiki Kannon Anyo-Ji - New Years Gongs at Tachiki Kannon
Ōtsu, Japan
2019
Trying to find a way out
Chūō, Japan
2017
Listening in the Oriental Lounge, 38 floors above street level
Akihabara, Japan
2017
Resting man with a radio
Osaka, Japan
4:06 2013
Fuefuki Maglev Train Viewing Point HP
Fuefuki, Japan
2026
Bird sound speaker at the train station
Shibuya, Japan
2017
Children play in suburban park in Tokyo(Chiba
Nagareyama, Japan
2013
202006221842 Frogs in a Rice Paddy by a Road
Ōtsu, Japan
4:40 2020
The sounds of rural frogs echoing through the forest recesses of…
Sado, Japan
2022
Sweet potato (yakiimo) truck
Yamanashi, Japan
2026
Étourneaux
Kyoto, Japan
2025
202007051434 Fukuda Art Museum, 2F Gallery
Arashiyama, Japan
5:36 2020
Erinji Nightingale Floor static long
Enzan, Japan
2026
Drumming and chanting in one of the buildings of the Zenkō-ji Temple
Nagano, Japan
2017
Crows at Ichimiyake
Moriyama, Japan
2018
Great Cormorants Nesting
Rittō, Japan
2018
Bats Sakaori
Kofu, Japan
2026
The chiming speaker at the exit of the Tokyo International Forum
Chūō, Japan
2017
Nakamise-dori, Kawasaki Daishi
Kawasaki, Japan
1:36 2015
202006221826 Bairin Childrens Playground
Ōtsu, Japan
3:00 2020
At the table
Taito, Japan
10:12 2013
Yokohama, chinatown, panda toy
Yokohama, Japan
0:54 2011
New Year 2015 Temple Bells and Fireworks
Rittō, Japan
2015
Red-crowned crane soundscape
Kushiro, Japan
3:16 2008
201811241756 JR Yamashina Station Roundabout Train Crossing
Ōtsu, Japan
2018
Recorded on my way to the supermarket
Nagareyama, Japan
2013
Cicadas at the end of Summer
Rittō, Japan
2017
Helicopters
Kusatsu, Japan
2018
