A train alarm for iPhone, for stations across Japan
Pick your station, one tap.A heads-up before you get off.
Choose the station where you get off. Even with the screen off, Oriruyo keeps checking how far you are from it, and lets you know when you get close. No routes or timetables to enter.
Coming soon to the App Store
How it works ↓An Android version is in the works. The app is in Japanese.
How it works
Pick your station
Search any station in Japan by name. The station list is built into the app, so search works even with a weak signal. Save the stations you use often, and next time it’s just a tap on the bell.
Put your phone away
While the alarm is on, Oriruyo keeps checking the straight-line distance to your station, even with the screen off or while you use other apps.
Get a heads-up
When you come within the distance you set, you get a notification. It reminds you again until you tap “I’m awake”.
Built so you don’t sleep past your stop
Four alert distances
Measured in a straight line from the station: 500 m, 1 km, 2 km (default) or 3 km. Pick a longer one for fast trains.
“Minutes to go” underground
Where your location can’t be found, like underground or in tunnels, a backup timer rings after the number of minutes you enter. Used together with location, whichever comes first wins.
Again, until you’re up
If you don’t respond, it reminds you up to 3 more times, a minute apart. Tapping “I’m awake” stops it.
See what’s going on
The app shows how it is watching, your permissions, when your location was last found, and the estimated distance. If monitoring has stopped, it tells you so.
Sound check
Before your first trip, check that you can hear the alert on the lock screen. If you can’t, the app shows what to check.
Forgot to turn it off?
An alarm ends 3 hours after it starts (you can change this), so it won’t go off somewhere unexpected on another trip.
Free, with no limit on alarms
Anything to do with the alarm and its notifications is the same, free or paid.
Free
¥0
- Unlimited alarms
- Alert distance, backup timer, reminders and sound check
- Save up to 2 favorite stations
Premium
¥480One-time purchase (Japan, tax included)
- Everything in Free
- Save as many stations as you like
- Start alarms automatically by day of the week
- Restore it on a new phone with “Restore purchase”
No ads. No sign-up.
Your location stays with you
- Your location
- Used only to work out the distance to your station. It is never saved or sent anywhere, and your route is never recorded.
- No account
- There is no sign-up, and we don’t ask for your email address.
- No ads or tracking
- No ads, no analytics and no tracking, in the app or on this website.
- Stays on your phone
- Saved and recent stations stay on your device, and are left out of iCloud and Google backups.
Before you rely on it
Oriruyo cannot guarantee that a notification will reach you, or that you will wake up.
- Underground lines and tunnels, battery saving, location permissions and the OS’s background limits can delay or block notifications.
- Depending on silent mode, Focus and your notification settings, the alert may make no sound.
- The alert distance is a straight-line guide from the station, not the time left until you arrive.
- Closing the app or restarting your phone can stop location monitoring.
For trips that matter, please set another alarm as well.
Your usual station, one tap away.
Coming soon to the App Store. An Android version is in the works.