Safety tips for travelers

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The App “Safety tips”

“Safety tips”: the push-enabled information alert app for foreign touris

This push-enabled app pushes alerts about earthquake early warnings, tsunami warnings, and other weather warnings within Japan in English, Japanese, Hangul, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Spanish, Portuguese, Thai, Indonesian, Tagalog, Nepali, Khmer, Burmese, and Mongolian. The app provides various functions useful for both foreign tourists and residents in Japan, such as an evacuation flowchart showing actions to be taken in the light of surrounding circumstances, helpful phrases for obtaining information from the people around, and website links that contain helpful information in the event of a disaster.

Operating systems

iOS 9.0 or later
Android 5.0 or later
Download links

Operating systems

iOS 9.0 or later
Android 5.0 or later
Download links

"Safety tips API", an information distribution service

Disaster information which is given in “Safety tips” of the app providing information for foreign tourists visiting Japan in times of a disaster can be provided to other apps.
For further details, please refer to the following.

Case examples of providing information

Japan Travel by NAVITIME
(NAVITIME JAPAN Co., Ltd.)
NAVITIME for Japan Travel

*As of March 2019, this app has temporarily suspended the use of the API due to the app's renewal. It will be resumed soon.