Eki Live vs Nextation

Eki Live shows the current or next train station in your Dynamic Island and lock screen while riding above-ground trains in the Tokyo metropolitan area. Live station data appears automatically when you start riding a train. There's no need to remember to open the app. You can still open the app to follow your journey or select a parallel railway. • Accurate GPS is required for tracking – underground trains are not fully supported. • Background location permission is required to use automatic background start feature. • Dynamic Island appears on supported devices only. Railway data is provided by the Association for Open Data of Public Transportation.

On a train in Japan, the next station stays on your Lock Screen for the whole ride. No unlocking, no searching, nothing to type in first. Nextation is made for railways in Japan, and works only there. ■ The next station, without unlocking your phone The station you have just left, the station you are heading to, and a rough arrival time — on the Lock Screen and on the Home Screen. The line you are riding is worked out from your location; if that estimate is wrong, you can pick the line yourself. Open the app and you see up to five stations ahead, in order. ■ Station names in Latin script Station, line and prefecture names are shown in the Latin alphabet — the same spelling you see on the platform signs and on the display inside the carriage. The dictionary is built into the app, so nothing is looked up while you are moving. A small number of stations are missing from it, mostly local tram and light-rail stops; those keep their Japanese name rather than a guessed spelling. ■ The alarm counts stations, not metres Register the station where you get off — and the station where you change trains, if you have one. Nextation tells you one stop before it, and again just before you arrive. Announcements on Japanese trains are not measured in metres; neither is this. One stop ahead is enough time to gather your things and reach the door. Each saved route can be watched every time, or for a single trip. Where the line cannot be identified, the alarm falls back to distance from the station. ■ Live Activity and Dynamic Island While you are riding, the next station sits in the Dynamic Island and on the Lock Screen — even while you are using another app. ■ Readable at a glance The station name is the largest thing on the screen and everything else stays quiet. The line colour tells you which line you are on. ■ Privacy Your location is processed on your device. It is not sent to, or stored on, any server we run. There is no tracking and no advertising SDK. (To resolve station and line names, only the coordinate being looked up is sent to a public API each time. The privacy policy explains this in full.) Available in English, 日本語, 한국어, 简体中文, Français and Español. Please note: coverage depends on the station data provider, and stations outside Japan cannot be found. The list of upcoming stations follows the local-train stopping pattern, so a rapid or express service may pass some of the stations shown. Positioning is less accurate underground and in tunnels. Continuous background location use consumes battery.