Radio stations from Japan

This page lists 48 internet radio stations broadcasting from Japan. The most listened to are Gotanno FM 89.2, SOUND UP STATION NFRS, BOX : Japan City Pop - 日本のシティポップ and J-Club Club Bandstand. Each station was checked for a working stream, so nothing here is a dead link.

By genre the strongest here are jpop (7), pop (7), j-pop (5), music (5), japanese (4) and anime (3). Broadcasts are mainly in japanese (15), english (6) and american english (1). Stations are spread across the country, with the most coming from tokyo, Osaka, Tokyo and Kobe.

Sound quality varies: 15 stations stream at 192 kbps or higher, the best being Free FM Tokyo at 320 kbps, while 2 run at 96 kbps or below and are better suited to a phone on mobile data. By format the mix is MP3 (42), OGG (4) and AAC (2). MP3 is the safe universal choice, while AAC sounds better for the same bandwidth.

Nothing needs to be installed to listen to radio from Japan: the player runs in the browser, on a phone the same as on a computer. Stations you like can be kept with the heart icon — they are stored in your own browser, so they are waiting the next time you open the site, with no account and nothing sent anywhere. The track currently playing is shown at the bottom of the screen for stations that broadcast that information.

Listening to stations from Japan online means hearing what people there actually hear — the same news bulletins, the same adverts, the same songs in rotation — which no streaming service reproduces.