# Next Stop Tokyo — Japan Railway Simulator 3D

> Japan Railway Simulator 3D (iPhone/iPad app by Hiroki Shingu.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/next-stop-tokyo/id6828287526 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Hiroki Shingu](https://appshunter.io/developer/1195484473)
- Category: Games, Simulation
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 5.00/5 from 1 App Store ratings · 2 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 251 MB
- Languages: American English, Japanese, Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)
- Released: 2026-11-02
- Data updated: 2026-11-13
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/next-stop-tokyo/id6828287526/reviews.md

## What is Next Stop Tokyo?

Drive a commuter train from Shinjuku to Tokyo through a detailed model of central Tokyo, and stop it at every platform yourself. Fifteen sights along the way, from Shinjuku Gyoen and the old castle moat to Tokyo Station's red-brick building, are named as you pass: tap Look to turn your view to one. The sights you pass are kept with a picture in your records, and the photo mode lets you pick the light, add fog and zoom from the cab.

START WITH ONE STATION
Run any stretch of the line, or practice a single stop from just before the platform. P to power, N to coast, B to brake. Driving hints tell you when to brake and how hard, the stop gauge's ▼ shows where you would stop as you are, and after each run you get one thing to try next. A demonstration run shows how it is done.

INCIDENTS ON THE WAY
A protection radio alarm, a platform's emergency stop button, a passenger taken ill, something caught in a door: answer quickly, as the rules say, for extra points, or the conductor pulls the emergency brake. The free stretch has the radio alarm only; the full version has all four. The settings can turn them off.

FREE TO PLAY
• Rapid service Shinjuku to Yotsuya, local service Shinjuku to Yoyogi
• Stop practice at those stations, driving hints and the demonstration run
• Morning, day, evening and night, rain, fog, cherry blossom, autumn leaves and snow
• Today's run: a new stretch, time of day and weather every day on the free stretch, with a home and lock screen widget
• Personal bests, achievements and your driver's license
• Incidents (the radio alarm) and the year's end and New Year runs (Shinjuku to Yotsuya)
• Two trial challenges

LOOK BACK AT EVERY RUN
After a run, the review shows each stretch's speed graph beside your best and where you began to brake. Your records keep each station's stops, your weakest station and a driver's grade that rises as you drive, from trainee to master; your driver's license card sums them up, ready to share. Challenges always run under the same conditions, with goals for the stopping position, the timing and the ride.

ONE-TIME FULL VERSION
An in-app purchase opens every stretch of both services from Shinjuku to Tokyo, the local back from Ochanomizu to Shinjuku, stop practice at every station, fourteen more challenges and the endless shuttle: precise stops at night, a long run in fog, two to four stations in a row, keeping time while reading the signals, answering incidents. No subscription.

ENDLESS SHUTTLE
Shinjuku to Tokyo, back to Shinjuku and on: keep the rapid going until your third mistake and chase a high score. Your five best are kept for each difficulty.

YEAR'S END AND NEW YEAR
Every year, Snowy year's end, an evening run in falling snow, comes December 26 to 31, and the First sunrise run leaves at dawn January 1 to 7. Each gives a souvenir ticket you can get only then. Free: Shinjuku to Yotsuya; full version: the whole rapid line.

ADD-ON TRAINS (SOLD SEPARATELY)
An imaginary steam locomotive, a slim high-speed train and a wooden electric car in the style of the Meiji era, for normal runs, stop practice, free runs and the endless shuttle.

• An independent game made by one developer, not affiliated with any railway company or facility. The trains, their operation and the scenery are made for the game and differ from the real ones. Station, line and place names only show where the game is set; no railway company logos or real departure melodies are used.
• Terrain and ground colors from the GSI tiles of the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, buildings from MLIT's Project PLATEAU 3D city models, tracks, roads and stations from © OpenStreetMap contributors, all processed for the game (details under Sources & credits in the settings).
• Some stretches, such as the local service between Ochanomizu and Tokyo, are rearranged for the game.
• In rain and snow the rails are slippery: the wheels can slide and spin.
• Purchases and restoring them need a connection.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Steam Locomotive | $0.99 | one-time |
| Meiji Electric Car | $0.99 | one-time |
| Full Version | $5.99 | one-time |
| Slim High-Speed Train | $0.99 | one-time |


## Is Next Stop Tokyo safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Next Stop Tokyo.

## Is Next Stop Tokyo legit?

Next Stop Tokyo appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Next Stop Tokyo is 75 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

## Recent user reviews (2 of 2)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/next-stop-tokyo/id6828287526/reviews.md

### 4/5 — 良い

*2026-11-10*

リアルで良いです
ジョイント音がかなり耳につくので課金を渋っています。ブレーキも緩解時ではなく加圧時に音が鳴るのが少し気になります。
それとマスコンのサイズももう少し大きくなって操作性が上がれば課金しようと思います。

### 5/5 — とても楽しい

*2026-11-09*

iPadでプレーしているのですが、iPhone版を拡大した様になっているので、正式に対応してくれると嬉しいです^^

**Developer response:** このたびは★5の評価とレビューをありがとうございます！「とても楽しい」と言っていただけて、本当に励みになります。
いただいたご要望を受けて、最新のバージョン1.1でiPadに正式に対応しました。iPadの大きな画面に合わせた表示で運転できますので、ぜひアップデートして触ってみてください。iPad版で見づらいところや使いにくいところ、足りないところがあれば、遠慮なく教えていただけると嬉しいです。
これからも、走れる内容を増やしたり、もっと遊びやすくしたりしていく予定です。ご意見・ご感想や「こんな機能がほしい」といったご要望も、お気軽にお寄せください。お待ちしております。
今後とも「つぎは東京」をよろしくお願いいたします。

## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 1.2.0 — 2026-11-10

Thank you for playing Next Stop Tokyo.
- Incidents on the way: a protection radio alarm, a platform's emergency stop button, a passenger taken ill or something caught in a door. Answer quickly, as the rules say, for extra points. The free stretch has only the radio alarm; the full version has all four. Turn them off under Incidents on the way in the settings.
- The local the other way (full version): Ochanomizu to Shinjuku, nine stations, for stretch runs, stop practice and souvenir tickets.
- Driver's license: your own card from the records, with your grade, distance and PERFECT stops, ready to share. Gold with the full version, which adds your challenge medals.
- Year's end and New Year, for a limited time: Snowy year's end from December 26 to 31 and the First sunrise run from January 1 to 7, each with a souvenir ticket you can get only then. Free: Shinjuku to Yotsuya; full version: the whole rapid line.
- Four more challenges in the full version, one for each incident: sixteen in all.
- New achievements: Quick response and Incident veteran (answer all four incidents; full version only).
- The ticket book now holds 30 tickets.
- Now in Traditional Chinese.
- More room between the menu's rows on iPhones that have it.
- Brake hints while under power no longer come a little late.
- For a limited time: two add-on trains (the Steam Locomotive and the Meiji Electric Car) as a gift with the full version bought by December 31 (Japan time), and for those who have it already.

### 1.1.0 — 2026-11-09

• Now on iPad: drive on the big screen.
• Game Center leaderboards: ten of them, from the whole line and the first stretch to the endless shuttle and the challenges' total.
• Side by side: leaving a station, the train on the next track sometimes leaves with you and runs alongside, its passengers waving. Tap Look to turn to it.
• Orders: each normal run starts with one goal (stop PERFECT at two stations, and more). Harder ones come with your grade.
• Disruptions now include late starts and longer stops. Arrive by the dispatcher's revised times and you are on time.
• Rain and snow make the rails slippery: hard braking slides, full power spins. A lamp in the cab tells you.
• A new add-on train, the Steam Locomotive: an imaginary engine and four coaches that send up smoke as they run, driven from the cab behind its boiler.
• A new add-on train, the Meiji Electric Car: two wooden cars in the style of the line's first electric trains, driven standing at the front with brass handles.
• Portrait in the photo mode: tall pictures for stories and reels.
• Tall videos: Video on the pause panel records the next 10 seconds.
• Scenery fixes along the local line: no more trees through roofs, and the wall at Suidobashi no longer glows white at night.
• On both services: bushes on the steep banks, no flicker at the crossovers, and the outside views no longer stand inside buildings or hop about.
• Gaps where the sky showed through (under bridges, at platform ends, round station roofs) are closed, and cars no longer sink into road bridges.
• The menu's settings now have Sight captions, and the seasons are one row (Off, Bloom, Autumn, Snow).
• Fewer frames drawn while coming slowly into a station, so the phone stays cooler.
• New achievements: Side by side, Recovery run, First order done, Orders master.
• Larger text settings and smaller screens no longer cut off or crowd the displays.
• After buying the full version, a page shows what it opened, each with a button to start it (also under What the full version opens in the settings).
• Add-on trains run the endless shuttle too, and each has achievements of its own (the whole line, and on time).
• Four more challenges in the full version (the rapid in fog, Expert with no guide, leaving Shinjuku in the rain, the local to Tokyo): twelve in all.
• The full version's page and the records show how far you have gone (legs driven, stop practice, challenges, the endless shuttle), and the menu's stretches show your best rank.
• At Tokyo on the rapid, Turn back on the results takes you back to Shinjuku.
• The edges of shadows no longer twitch every few seconds as you drive.
• The endless shuttle can be put aside with Continue later and picked up again (it is no longer lost if the app is closed).
• Medals for the challenges (gold, silver, bronze), three achievements for the full version (every challenge, both ways, every leg), and each add-on train's sheet shows how far you have driven it.
• A ticket book: each leg and each whole line you finish leaves a souvenir ticket dated that day (21 in all, each one shareable).
• Rain and snow no longer seem to fall under the great roof of Shinjuku Station.
• The rooftops now carry air-conditioning units, water tanks and parapets, in roofs of varied colours (seen from the outside views and in the photo mode).
• By day the flats' balconies have washing and futons out to dry (taken in at night and in the rain).
• For a limited time: two add-on trains (the Steam Locomotive and the Meiji Electric Car) as a gift with the full version bought by December 31, and for those who have it already.
• Add-on train perks: the Slim High-Speed Train gets higher limits (160 km/h on the straight) and loses nothing arriving early; the Steam Locomotive's stop grades are twice as forgiving and it never slips in rain or snow; the Meiji Electric Car's are 1.5 times as forgiving and it loses nothing arriving early.

### 1.0.0 — 2026-11-02

No release notes.

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