The Ryokōya Field Guide
A little guidance.
A lot of wandering.
Your first afternoon out, or your fiftieth city. Five RyokōMates will show you where everything lives, how it works, and what you can bring home. Pick a task, meet your guide, and take the long way when you’re ready.
For iPhone · iOS 26.2 or later · English · Guide updated for version 1.2.2
Screenshots were captured in 1.2.1 using demo data unless a caption identifies an existing published capture. See what changed in 1.2.2 →
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Start here · no itinerary required
Your first afternoon out.
You don’t need a City Pack, a subscription or a perfect plan. An ordinary walk is plenty. Ryokōya records an outing you start; it doesn’t start a travel diary just because you installed it.
Make yourself at home
Sign in with Apple. If asked, choose the name you’d like the app to use. Read the location introduction before answering iOS’s permission questions.
Give the walk a starting point
Open My Trips and tap Start Now. Prefer a name, an icon or a focus first? Choose New Trip. For screen-off recording, allow location While Using the App or Always, with Precise Location on. Motion & Fitness helps distinguish walking from riding and count your steps.
Your starting pointMy Trips brings Start Now, New Trip, Journeys and finished outings together. This full screen uses the sample Japan journey. 
Make this outing yoursGive a trip a name, pick its icon and choose the kinds of places you care about. Pocket your phone. Look around.
Walk as usual. Stay somewhere for about a minute and Ryokōya tries to name the stop. You can add a Moment, a note or a photo along the way. Signal and place information vary; a stop can need your help.
The day, as it happensThe live trip keeps its map and controls together. Use End to keep the trip; the chevron leaves the screen while it records. Give the day its ending
When you’re done, tap End → End Trip. Complete a Quick Review if one appears. Your summary, story and receipt are ready to explore; the trip’s places also gather in Favorites.
The day, handed backAfter End Trip, your summary brings together its numbers, places and story.
I want to…
Chapter 01 · My Trips
Your day becomes a story.
Hi, I'm Pon, Tokyo's RyokōMate! This is where your walks turn into stories. Let me show you how it works.
Your guide: Pon · Tokyo
My Trips is your travel journal. Start a trip when you head out, and Ryokōya records your route, works out the places where you stop, and counts your steps. When you end it, the day becomes a story you can read again and share.
Try it, step by step
Start a trip
Tap Start Now to begin right away, or New Trip to give it a name, an icon and the kinds of places you care about first.
Walk as usual
Keep your phone in your pocket. Ryokōya draws your route and counts your steps, even with the screen off. Stay somewhere for about a minute and it works out where you are.
Add your own touches
Tap Moment to mark the spot you're standing on. In the Trip Log, press and hold a stop to add a note, capture a photo or video, or mark it Visited or Passed By.
Fix a wrong name
If Ryokōya picked the wrong place, open the stop and tap Fix, then choose the right one nearby.
Tell it where you really wereFix searches around the original stop. Choose the right nearby place, rather than adding a visit from across town. End the trip
Tap End, then End Trip. If a few stops need a quick look, a Quick Review comes first.
Enjoy the summary
Your stats, the story of the day, the neighborhoods you walked, the map and a playful receipt. Share a trip card, or print the receipt and share that.
Come back anytime
Finished trips are listed by month. Tap one to open it again, or press and hold it to delete it. Once you have two or more, Journeys can tell several trips as one story.
Read it with a local
In a Journey, each city opens its own chapter and its RyokōMate joins the telling: a welcome, a word of the day, a neighborhood story or a postcard goodbye. At places it knows, its facts come from that city’s free starter pack and the packs you own. The Journey and its journal remain free.
Several days, one JourneyThe sample Japan week combines its trips in one map, with chapters and totals. 
A postcard at the end of the dayAn existing sample Japan journal capture: Pon says goodbye to Tokyo before the next city’s chapter.
Your trip, itemized. Payment accepted in steps.
Open a finished trip or Journey, find The Receipt and tap Print the receipt. Pin favorite lines, drop others or roll the dice for another mix. The share preview makes it ready for a story or a post. Receipts, their customization and sharing are free.
Receipts can include weather and nearby earthquakes from the USGS catalog. The USGS request sends a date window and magnitude floor, never your location; nearness is calculated on your iPhone. A catalog match does not establish that you personally felt a quake.
A whole book to leaf through.
A trip or Journey can become a book with its map, story and places. Preview it free, then use Pro to save or share its PDF. In-app hardcover ordering is not available.
What you keep
- Your trips
- Each trip's route, stops, times, distance and steps.
- Notes, photos and Moments
- Everything you add along the way stays with its trip.
- Summaries and stories
- What End Trip writes: the stats, the story, the neighborhoods and the receipt.
- Journeys
- Groups of trips told as one. Deleting a journey keeps its trips.
Trips are saved in Ryokōya on this iPhone. With Ryokōya Pro, the iCloud Trip Vault also backs up every finished trip, photos included, and every Journey to your own iCloud, so a new iPhone can get them back. Restoring is always free.
Free, Pro and anything separate
Free
- Recording trips, with Moments, notes, photos and videos
- The summary, the story, the trip card and the receipt
- Journeys
- The trip's collection in Favorites, and its stamps in the Passport
- A preview of your trip book
Pro adds
- Email Summary: the full recap, sent anywhere
- Export GPX Route, to open your walk in other map apps
- Saving or sharing your trip book as a PDF
- Find, which matches photos from your library to your stops
- Trip Radar: a nudge during a trip when a saved place is near
- iCloud Trip Vault backup
Good to know · tips and common surprises
- Tap the chevron at the top of a live trip to leave its map. The trip keeps recording, and the pill above the tab bar brings you back.
- Allow location access While Using or Always, so trips keep recording with the screen off.
- If your iPhone closes Ryokōya during a trip, the trip picks up again by itself when the app is back within six hours. After that, you're asked whether to restore it.
- Pause stops tracking and the timer until you resume.
- The ✕ on a live trip cancels it and deletes what it recorded. To keep a trip, use End.
- Once your trips span more than one month, the calendar button at the top jumps to any month.
Words you’ll meet in My Trips
- Trip
- One outing, from the moment you start it to the moment you end it.
- Stop
- A place where you stayed about a minute or more. Ryokōya names it for you.
- Moment
- A spot you mark yourself with the Moment button.
- Trip Log
- The running list of stops on a live trip.
- Journey
- Several trips told as one story, like a week away.
- Receipt
- A playful, shop-style receipt of a trip's numbers, ready to share.
Where this takes you next
Back to the guide’s beginning ↑Chapter 02 · Explore
Find your next good detour.
Bonjour, I'm Gigi, Paris's RyokōMate! Explore is the map I'd use to find a good café. Here's how it works.
Your guide: Gigi · Paris
Explore is a map for finding places to eat, drink, see and do, around you or anywhere in the world. Scout an area before you go, open any place to learn about it, and save what catches your eye. The map starts quiet: places appear when you tap Refresh Area.
Try it, step by step
Point the map
Move and zoom the map, tap the arrow button to come back to where you are, or tap the magnifying glass to search for a place or a city. Picking a result flies the map there.
Tap Refresh Area
The pill at the bottom charts the places around the middle of the map. Tap it again to dig deeper.
A quiet map is a starting pointExplore waits for you to chart an area. Move the map and tap Refresh Area to find places. 
An area, chartedAn existing Manhattan app capture shows the category rail, place pins and Refresh Area control. Choose what you see
The icons on the left switch kinds of places on and off: restaurants, bars, cafés, landmarks, museums, parks, shops, hotels, entertainment and other places. The clock button hides places that are closed right now.
Open a place
Tap a pin to see its hours, how far it is on foot, its website, a street-level Look Around view where there is one, and your own photos and comments.
One pin, plenty to discoverA place sheet offers details and actions such as Save and Plan It. Hours, a website and Look Around depend on available information. Keep it
Tap Save to add it to Favorites, Plan It to add it to a plan, or Share to make a card of it. During a trip, Tag adds it to the trip.
Fly to a plan
The Plans menu at the top right shows a plan's numbered stops on the map. Choose None to go back to everything.
What you keep
- Places you've charted
- Kept on this iPhone, so they're back instantly next time.
- Your map settings
- Which kinds of places are switched on, and where you left the map.
- Category fixes
- Tell Ryokōya a place isn't really a café (the pencil beside its category) and the fix applies everywhere in the app.
What you save from Explore lives in Favorites and Plan It. Clear Maps Cache in Settings empties Explore's stored map data without touching your favorites.
Free, Pro and anything separate
Free
- Searching, charting and filtering the map
- Place details, Look Around, your photos and comments
- Saving, planning and sharing places
No Pro upgrade needed
Explore’s own search, filters and place tools are free. Related features such as unlimited active plans and Trip Radar have their own Pro access.
Good to know · tips and common surprises
- An empty map isn't broken: Explore never loads places on its own. Tap Refresh Area.
- Search looks near you first. For somewhere far away, add the city's name.
- The banner at the top names the neighborhood and city on the map. When the map is far from you, a second one with a standing figure shows where you really are.
- Want the tour of Explore's buttons again? Open Settings from the gear on any other tab and tap Replay Explore Guide.
Words you’ll meet in Explore
- Refresh Area
- The pill at the bottom that loads places around the middle of the map.
- Category rail
- The column of icons on the left that filters kinds of places.
- Open Now
- Hides places known to be closed right now. Places without published hours stay on the map.
- Been here
- A teal ring with a walking figure: a place from one of your trips.
Where this takes you next
Back to the guide’s beginning ↑Chapter 03 · Plan It
A little structure for your wandering.
Hey, I'm Coo, New York's RyokōMate. I've seen everything twice, so I like a plan. Here's how to make one.
Your guide: Coo · New York
Plan It is where you sketch an outing before you go: the places you want to visit, in the order you want to visit them. When the day comes, Ryokōya walks you from one stop to the next.
Try it, step by step
Create a plan
Tap Create Your First Plan (later, Create a New Plan), give it a name and, if you like, the dates of your trip.
Add places
Open any place, in Explore, in Favorites or on a trip, tap Plan It and choose your plan. Each place becomes a stop.
Send a place to tomorrowTap Plan It on a place sheet, then choose a plan or create one. Put them in order
Drag stops to reorder them, or use a stop's ••• menu to give it a day or remove it. With three or more stops, Ryokōya may offer to Optimize the order and save you some walking.
Check the details
With dates set, you get a countdown, a reminder on the first morning, the weather once it's in the forecast, and Check Opening Hours to flag stops that are closed on your dates.
Put your afternoon in orderA demo plan built from five New York Icons places. Reorder stops, check details and start navigation from here. 
Give the outing its datesDates support a countdown and date-aware checks. They do not make bookings or guarantee that a venue will be open. Start Navigation
Ryokōya draws walking routes between stops and shows your next direction at the top. Tap Arrived at each stop (it also notices when you're there), or Skip.
Preview it from afar
Far from your stops? Navigation lets you step through them with Next. Live walking guidance takes over once you're there.
One stop at a timeThe actual navigation screen for the demo plan. Guidance and trip recording are separate; start a trip too if you want its journal.
What you keep
- Your plans
- Each plan's name, icon, dates, stops and days.
- Your progress
- Which stops you've visited. Reset Progress starts a plan fresh.
Plans are saved on this iPhone. With Ryokōya Pro, the iCloud Trip Vault backs them up to your own iCloud too.
Free, Pro and anything separate
Free
- Up to three active plans at a time (drafts and completed plans don't count)
- Dates, the countdown, weather and opening-hours checks
- Walking navigation, previews from afar and sharing
Pro adds
- Unlimited active plans
- Walk View: a first-person, street-level view while you navigate
- Trip Radar: a nudge near a plan's stops during a trip
- iCloud Trip Vault backup
Good to know · tips and common surprises
- Give stops a day, and the plan groups them into Day 1, Day 2 and so on, each with its own distance and time.
- Closing the navigation screen with ✕ keeps the guidance going. The Navigating banner in Plan It brings it back, and End stops it.
- Duplicate copies a plan's stops, but not its dates, icon or days.
- Tap the map at the top of a plan for a full-screen view. A pin's Navigate button hands off to your maps app.
Words you’ll meet in Plan It
- Plan
- A list of places to visit, in order.
- Stop
- One place in a plan.
- Active, draft, completed
- A plan with stops still to visit, a plan with no stops yet, and a plan whose stops are all done.
- Planning from afar
- Stepping through a plan before you get there.
- Trip Radar
- A heads-up near places you saved, while a trip is running.
Where this takes you next
Back to the guide’s beginning ↑Chapter 04 · Favorites
Keep the places worth remembering.
Olá, I'm Galo, Lisbon's RyokōMate! I never forget a good place, and neither will you. Here's how Favorites works.
Your guide: Galo · Lisbon
Favorites keeps the places you love, or want to try, all in one spot. Save single places, sort them into collections of your own, and find a ready-made collection from every trip you finish.
Try it, step by step
Save a place
Open any place, in Explore, on a trip or in a plan, and tap Save. Choose Favorites Only, or put it straight into a collection.
Make a collection
Tap Create a New Collection and give it a name, an icon, a color and, if you like, a description.
Your places have a homeFavorites brings together your own collections and saved places, with chips to narrow the view. 
Give it a name worth keepingChange a collection’s name, description, icon and color. Trip Radar is an optional Pro feature. Let your trips add to it
Every trip you end adds a collection of the places you visited, named after the trip.
Filter the view
The chips at the top show All, Plan It, Collections, Trips or Places. Places can narrow down to one kind, like cafés.
Open a collection
See its places, tap View on Map, edit it with the pencil, or delete it. Deleting a collection keeps its places in Favorites.
A collection you can keep shapingOpen a collection to see its places, edit its identity, view its map or share it. 
The collection, on the mapPins help you find the places in your collection. A saved collection is not itself a recorded trip. Share it, or walk it again
Share Favorites makes an image card or a list of links, opens the places in Apple Maps, Google Maps or MapQuest, exports a map file, or turns the collection into a new plan with Walk It Again.
Choose where your places goShare a card or link list, open a maps handoff, export a KML file, or make a new plan with Walk It Again.
What you keep
- Your favorites
- A saved copy of each place: its name, address, category, website and your notes. It stays even if the original listing disappears.
- Your collections
- Each one's name, icon, color, description and the places inside.
- Trip collections
- Made for you when a trip ends.
Favorites and collections are saved on this iPhone. With Ryokōya Pro, the iCloud Trip Vault backs them up to your own iCloud too.
Free, Pro and anything separate
Free
- Saving places and making collections
- Trip collections
- Maps, image cards, link lists and map files
Pro adds
- Trip Radar on a want-to-go collection: a nudge when you're near one of its places during a trip
- iCloud Trip Vault backup
Good to know · tips and common surprises
- A place sits in one collection at a time. Favorites Only keeps it out of all of them.
- Removing the last place from a collection deletes the empty collection.
- Tapping Saved on a place's page removes it from Favorites right away.
- Google Maps and MapQuest routes take a collection's first 10 places.
Words you’ll meet in Favorites
- Favorite
- A place you saved.
- Collection
- A named group of favorites, like Best Coffee Spots.
- Trip collection
- A collection Ryokōya makes from the places on a finished trip.
- Want-to-go list
- A collection with Trip Radar on, for places you haven't been to yet.
- KML
- A map file that Google My Maps, Google Earth and Organic Maps can open.
Where this takes you next
Back to the guide’s beginning ↑Chapter 05 · Passport
Proof you went outside.
Hello, I'm Kon, Kyoto's RyokōMate. Your Passport keeps everything you earn on foot: stamps, crowns, and RyokōMates like me.
Your guide: Kon · Kyoto
The Passport holds everything you earn on foot. Spend time in a neighborhood and its stamp is pressed into your Stamp Book. Visit the places in a City Pack and its RyokōMate, a city's own character, comes to life, all the way to gold. Crowns, City Bingo and awards round it out.
Try it, step by step
Walk on a trip
Stop somewhere in a neighborhood, or wander it for a while, and its stamp is pressed. Just passing through, or riding through on a train, doesn't count.
Everything you earned on footThe Passport gathers neighborhood stamps, City Packs and the Playground. Open the Stamp Book
Each city has its own pages of stamps. Tap one to see when you first earned it, or to share it or the whole city page.
A city for now, a city for laterIn Progress keeps nearby or hand-selected cities close. Stamped and Visited holds the others. 
Every seal has a place and a dayA released 1.2.1 demo Stamp Book page shows the neighborhood names across their postmarks. Meet the RyokōMates
Open City Packs. Every city has a free starter pack to add, and more packs to buy, each a hand-picked list of places. Across 51 cities there are 333 packs; paid packs and city bundles are separate from Pro.
Find your next cityThe City Packs list groups cities by continent and country. Every pack city has a free starter. Visit pack places
Stop at a pack's places on your trips. Its RyokōMate wakes up at your first visit, shows its full colors at halfway, and comes home in gold once you've been to them all.
Coo, partway to goldAn existing demo pack share preview shows New York Icons progress. A first visit wakes a mate, halfway brings full color, and completion earns gold. Win crowns
Crowns reward whole areas: a city's heart, a district, or a themed set of neighborhoods. They're at the end of each city's Stamp Book; tap one to see what's left to walk.
See what is left to walkA crown’s detail explains its requirements and which neighborhoods you have already stamped. Play in the Playground
City Bingo fills in from your trips, awards celebrate feats like a 20 km day or a night out past 11 PM, and On This Day brings back a trip from this date.
Three in a row. A proper celebration.The sample Tokyo Bingo share preview. Squares are earned from your trips, and three in a row is a BINGO. 
The playful side of your PassportBingo, awards and On This Day live in the Playground. New progress is worked out from finished trips. Always Collecting, if you like
Turn it on and pack places can count even when no trip is running, when you stay at one for ten minutes or more.
What you keep
- Stamps
- Every neighborhood you've stamped, with the date you first earned it.
- City Packs and RyokōMates
- The packs you own, and how far each RyokōMate has come.
- Crowns, Bingo and awards
- Worked out from your trips, so they keep up as you walk.
Your Passport is saved on this iPhone. With Ryokōya Pro, the iCloud Trip Vault backs up your stamps, packs, pack progress and badges too. Packs you bought always come back with Restore Purchases in Settings.
Free, Pro and anything separate
Free
- Stamps, the Stamp Book and every crown
- A free starter pack in every city
- City Bingo, awards and On This Day
- Always Collecting
Pro adds
- iCloud Trip Vault backup of your stamps, packs, pack progress and badges
Bought separately: More City Packs, one at a time or as a city bundle. They're yours to keep, and they aren't part of Pro.
Good to know · tips and common surprises
- Tap one of the big numbers at the top to see the list behind it.
- On a trip, ten minutes inside a pack's park, landmark or museum counts, whatever the stop ends up being called.
- Visits from before you got a pack count too, so adding one can light up places you've already been.
- Always Collecting is off until you turn it on, and it needs location access set to Always to notice pack places while Ryokōya is closed.
- The Playground fills in from finished trips, so new Bingo squares and awards appear after you end a trip.
Words you’ll meet in Passport
- Stamp
- Proof you spent time in a neighborhood.
- Stamp Book
- Your book of stamps, with pages for each city.
- City Pack
- A hand-picked list of places in a city, with its RyokōMate.
- RyokōMate
- A city’s own character, like Kon the white kitsune in Kyoto. Each pack’s mate wakes, colors in and turns gold as you visit its places.
- Gold
- The last stage: every place in a pack visited.
- Crown
- A prize for walking a whole area: a city's heart, a district, or a themed set of neighborhoods.
- Always Collecting
- Lets pack places count between trips.
Where this takes you next
Back to the guide’s beginning ↑Put it all together
One outing. Plenty to bring home.
Tomorrow looks promising.
- Use Explore to search a city and chart a neighborhood.
- Save a few discoveries to Favorites, or tap Plan It on their place sheets.
- Arrange the stops in Plan It, add days and check opening hours when available.
- Start Navigation when you’re there. Start a trip in My Trips as well to record the day.
- At the end, enjoy what happened—even if your favorite discovery wasn’t on the plan.
A week worth keeping.
- Start a trip each day you want to keep. End it when the outing is over.
- Once you have several finished trips, look for a Journey suggestion or choose Make a journey to select them yourself.
- Read the days and city chapters together. A Journey groups your trips; it doesn’t replace them, and a trip can belong to several.
- Customize the Journey’s receipt, gather its places into a collection, or preview its book.
- Deleting a Journey keeps its trips. With Pro in version 1.2.2, the Trip Vault backs up Journeys as well as their finished trips. Check the backup status before moving to a new phone.
Same city. A new excuse to go out.
- Open City Packs and add the city’s free starter.
- Use its collection in Favorites to find the places. Visit them on a trip; a purchase alone earns no visits.
- Read a crown’s checklist for another neighborhood to discover, or check your Bingo card.
- Next time a friend asks where to go, share the collection or turn it into a new plan with Walk It Again.
The practical bits
Keep your memories close.
Your iPhone, comfortably.
On iPhone Duo, Ryokōya stays in one window as you open, fold or close it, so the same trip keeps going. The app is still in English; on an iPhone set to Japanese, City Packs also recognize the Japanese names Apple Maps uses for their places.
Permission to put the phone away.
Ryokōya is designed for iPhone on iOS 26.2 or later and is currently in English. Sign in with Apple creates the local account. A trip needs location access; While Using the App or Always can keep a trip you started recording with the screen off. Turn on Precise Location so the app can distinguish nearby places. Motion & Fitness supports motion detection and steps.
Always permission is needed for optional Always Collecting between trips. That switch starts off and does not record a route. Photo-library access is separate: attach pictures yourself, or use Pro’s Find/automatic matching for photos from your trip window.
The Trip Vault: backup and restore.
Check the old phone first
Open Settings from a tab’s gear, then Trip Vault. With Pro and iCloud available, check that automatic backup is enabled and review its status. Finished trips back up as they end, and later edits follow when you leave the app; you do not need to tap Back Up Now for every change. Keep the old phone and your own exports until you have verified the restore.
Bring missing trips back
On the new iPhone, use the same Apple account and iCloud account. Open Settings → Trip Vault → Restore from iCloud. Restoring is free, even without a current Pro purchase. It fills missing trips; it does not overwrite a local version of the same trip.
Restore purchases separately
Settings → Restore Purchases asks Apple to restore paid access, including packs. It does not restore your recorded routes or rebuild your travel history. Trip Vault restore retrieves backed-up memories.
Take a copy with you.
- Cards and collections
- Free share cards and collection link lists/KML files let you share a result or reopen its places elsewhere.
- GPX
- Pro route export for other map tools. A GPX route is different from a collection’s KML places file.
- Email and PDF
- Pro Email Summary and PDF trip-book export keep a fuller recap. Book previews remain free.
Make it comfortable.
The gear in My Trips, Plan It, Favorites or Passport opens Settings. Explore has no gear of its own. Settings holds preferences, permissions guidance, purchases, Trip Vault, map-cache clearing and diagnostic-log export. Clearing Maps Cache doesn’t remove your favorites. To reopen a tab’s built-in guide, tap its name at the top of the tab.
Before you delete anything
Deleting a Journey keeps its trips. Deleting a favorites collection keeps its saved places. Deleting a trip removes that trip and its iCloud backup; that is different from removing the app.
Settings → Delete Account erases the cloud backup first, then local app data. If the cloud copy cannot be reached, deletion stops. Export anything you want to keep before using it. Removing the app alone leaves an existing cloud backup in place.
Useful from the first walk
The journal is free.
The extras are yours to choose.
Free. Not a trial.
- Unlimited trips, routes, stories and Journeys.
- Manual Moments, notes, photos and videos.
- Explore, favorites and collections.
- Neighborhood stamps and crowns within supported coverage.
- Receipts, City Bingo, awards and share cards.
- Three active plans, walking guidance and book previews.
- A free starter pack in each of 51 pack cities.
- Restoring an existing Trip Vault backup.
Pro, when you want more.
- Automatic Trip Vault backup of trips, Journeys and your library to your own iCloud.
- Automatic photo matching at stops.
- Email summaries and PDF trip-book export.
- GPX route export.
- Trip Radar for saved and planned places.
- Walk View during navigation.
- Unlimited active plans.
Pro is available monthly, yearly or as a one-time Lifetime purchase. The 30-day Trip Pass gives Pro access without automatic renewal. Paid City Packs and city bundles are separate one-time purchases; neither Pro nor Trip Pass includes them. See current prices for your region in the app.
To cancel an auto-renewing Pro subscription, use iOS Settings → your name → Subscriptions → Ryokōya. Canceling stops the next renewal and keeps access for the period already paid for. Apple handles purchase refunds.
Before the next detour
A little extra help.
My map is empty. Where are the places?
In Explore, move the map and tap Refresh Area. Search, locating yourself and choosing a plan are other ways to bring places into view. A quiet starting map is intentional.
Read Gigi’s Explore guide →It missed a place—or chose the wrong one.
A stop usually needs about a minute, and GPS and place listings can be imperfect. Confirm or Fix a guessed name; on a finished day use Add a Stop for something missed, or Not a Stop for an incorrect visit.
Set a stop right →Can I record outside the 51 cities?
Yes. Trip recording, routes and stories work beyond City Pack destinations. Curated packs and neighborhood stamp maps cover 51 cities. Place information, signal, weather, hours and Look Around availability vary; the app does not guarantee every feature offline.
Does it keep tracking between trips?
Trip recording runs during a trip you start. Always Collecting is a separate, optional feature for nearby owned pack places, off by default. It uses geofences and a real stay rather than recording a route between trips.
Read Kon’s explanation →What if iOS closes the app during a trip?
A recent interrupted trip can resume when the app relaunches within six hours. Older interruptions offer a restore decision. Background recording still depends on iOS, permissions and signal. If a recording problem repeats, Support explains how to check permissions and export a field log.
Where does my data go?
Your records live on your iPhone, with optional Pro backup in your own private iCloud. There is no Ryokōya server holding your travel history. Maps, weather and other documented service queries still contact their providers. Field logs can contain precise location history; review one before choosing to send it.
Read the privacy policy →Still stuck, or have a good idea for the next outing? Support goes to the person who made Ryokōya. For changes since launch, visit What’s new.
Back to the beginning ↑Pon's keeping the dango warm.
Your next chapter
starts outside.
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