Noricho

のりちょう · 乗り帳 — the book of rides

Ride it.
Collect it.

You already ride these trains. Noricho keeps the record — 128 lines, 1,612 stations and the 2,014 stretches of track between them, across Greater Tokyo.

Tap Start hunt, put your phone back in your pocket, and ride the way you always do. Background GPS credits the segments you actually covered, and the card for that line fills in behind you. Cover the whole line and it turns gold — , ridden end to end.

Coming to the App Store. Get in touch if a line you ride is missing.

128 lines
1,612 stations
2,014 segments
37 operators

Four things to collect

Segments

The stretch of track between two neighbouring stations. There are 2,014 of them, and a line’s progress is simply how many of its own you have ridden.

Stations

1,612 stamps, in the spirit of the station stamp. A stamp comes only from GPS evidence that you were physically there — there is no way to tap one into existence.

Lines

128 cards, one per service line, in the format you already read on the platform: the line’s colour, and its letter where it has one. JY. G. The artwork is original.

Rolling stock

The train class you were on — on the fifteen lines where a realtime train feed exists. Those are the rides that can be matched to an actual train, so those are the only ones Noricho claims.

Not only the subway

128 lines and 37 operators across Greater Tokyo: JR East, with 32 lines of its own, plus Tokyo Metro, Toei, Seibu, Tokyu, Keio, Tobu, Keisei, Keikyu, Odakyu, Sotetsu, the Tsukuba Express, Rinkai, Yurikamome, the monorails and the Yokohama Municipal Subway — and the ones you take on a day off: Enoden, Odakyu Hakone, Izuhakone, Chichibu, Kominato, Isumi, Choshi Electric Railway.

What it is not

Noricho is a record of what you have ridden, not a way to plan what comes next. No timetables, no route planning, no fares, no delay alerts — other apps do those well.

Location is used while a hunt is running, to credit the ride you are on, and when you check in at a station, to confirm you are standing there. When-In-Use permission plus the iOS background mode, so the ride still counts with your phone in your pocket. Noricho never asks for “Always” location. What that means for your data is spelled out in the privacy policy.