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24 alternatives to Yamanote.fun – A complete soundscape for Tokyo's Yamanote line
After visiting Japan for the first time a decade ago I became completely enamoured with Tokyo's Yamanote Line railway loop. Particularly the sonic experience of it. Like so many others I fell in love with the charming departure melodies and enjoyed discovering experiences like Yamanot.es (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45045307) here on Hacker News when I returned home. But it wasn't until my second trip to Tokyo that I truly appreciated how much the door chimes, on-board announcements and train noise were contributing to the rich soundscape that I loved. I returned home…
Yamanote.fun is a comprehensive soundscape collection capturing the audio experience of Tokyo's Yamanote Line railway loop. It features departure melodies, door chimes, on-board announcements, and train ambience for… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Yamanote 3D▲138Ride Tokyo’s Yamanote Line in a 3D world
Aug 2026 · yamanote-3d.com · its alternatives →
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I built this free, no-nonsense white noise app. I know there are plenty of them out there already, but I wanted to make something beautiful and easy-to-use, without logins or ads or in-app purchases or any of the other stuff a lot of them have. I appeared on The Economist's The Intelligence podcast [0] this week talking about Ambiphone and another ambient music project, Ambient ScotRail Beats [1] - I'm on at about 17:30 There's a big selection of music and sounds already but I'm always adding more - if there's anything you'd like to see added, let me know! [0]…
2024 · ambiph.one · its alternatives →
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A experimental audio visualizer built with WebGL (React Three Fiber and Three.js)
2023 · pouria.dev · its alternatives →
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I’ve always liked having background noise while working or falling asleep, but I got frustrated that most “white noise” or ambient sound apps are either paywalled, stuffed with ads, or try to upsell subscriptions for basic features. So I made Ambi, a small iOS app with a clean interface and a set of freely available ambient sounds — rain, waves, wind, birds, that sort of thing. You can mix them, adjust volume levels, and just let it play all night or while you work. Everything works offline and there are no hidden catches. It’s something I built for myself first, but I figured others might…
2025 · ambisounds.app · its alternatives →
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Mainichi▲133Learn Japanese, one prefecture at a time.
Jul 2026 · mainichiapp.com · its alternatives →
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An open-source music player with simple UI. Contribute to DevER-M/yami development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Tokyo Trains▲13Semi inspired by the 3d Shinjuku station that was posted again recently, I noticed it was missing a large portion of the "complex" where "complex" is defined loosly has how far you can walk without stepping outside. So I asked Claude to make a 3d map of all Tokyo Trains, no libraries, and let you zoom into stations, and the first version with both map and the Shinjuku complex was ready in about 3 hours. It spent another 7 or so in various nit picky things I asked for to get to the current version. I know these will only get better but I think the thing I find most interesting is no libraries…
Aug 2026 · greggman.github.io · its alternatives →
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Meditative soundscapes inspired by night-time cities.
2021 · wanderthenight.com · its alternatives →
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QWERTYbeats▲77Fun with music using your computer keybord
2016 · unitunitunit.com · its alternatives →
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Yames is a free, open-source desktop metronome built for real practice. MIDI footswitch control, sub-millisecond precision, zen mode, speed drills, preset management, and an AI practice coach (coming soon). Hands stay on the instrument. macOS, Windows, Linux.
May 2026 · turutupa.github.io · its alternatives →
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Ambient music from Tokyo nights for focus and deep work
2025 · youtube.com · its alternatives →
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Putting the fun back into Music!
2018 · its alternatives →
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Just a fun little map viz that pulls OSM changesets from https://planet.openstreetmap.org and plots them on a map. I paired the plotting of points to some relaxing chords just for fun and found I had created something sort of relaxing. Enjoy :)
2024 · musical-osm.netlify.app · its alternatives →
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I had a successful startup exit five years ago (we got very lucky) but recently realized I'm most happy when building software products. I spend the last ~2 months building this as a fun way to get back into software development; and to find out what all the kids are up to these days. I am also a passionate life-long Japanese learner so this project was really fun. It's been nutz how different things are now with all the AI whatnot. This for sure would have taken me a year, without all the AI. I did not spend much time doing market analysis or any of that jazz. Mostly because I was…
2025 · seikai.tv · its alternatives →
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The video that made me want to learn Japanese
2015 · en.wikipedia.org · its alternatives →
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I recently launched my side project I've been building with Meteor js over the past few months. It uses the Soundcloud, Hypemachine, and exfm public APIs to pull in your 'favorite' tracks from each of your usernames provided. It's gives you a unified playlist of all your favorite tracks across the different sites. Audio is being played using the HTML5 Audio API, so it currently only works in Chrome and Safari. Built with: * Meteor JS – http://Meteor.com * Bourbon Sass Mixin Library – http://bourbon.io * Spin.js – http://fgnass.github.io/spin.js/ *…
2013 · myfaves.fm · its alternatives →
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15-minute producer battles. Same kit. Blind votes.
Jun 2026 · hypehive.fun · its alternatives →
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