Curated routes tailored to you
Walk Japan with a guide who knows the alleys, the timing, and the stories the guidebooks miss. Your trip — the one you'll talk about for years.
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Four layers that turn a generic trip into the one you'll remember for years.
Hyper‑personalization
Tell WeGuide what you love — slow mornings or packed days, food-first or shrines-first, history deep-dives or quiet moments. Your guide talks to you about what you care about, in a tone that fits your style. Every story, every detour, every silence is shaped around you. This isn't an audio player with one recording for everyone — it's a companion that knows your pace and answers your questions. The result: a trip that feels like it was designed for one — because it was.
Anti-crowd routing
Other apps show you where the congestion is — a red blob on a map you still have to walk around. WeGuide simply leads you down a different, equally beautiful street. Crowds shifting at Senso-ji? Rain rolling in over Yanaka? Energy fading after the second temple? Your route changes the way a seasoned local guide would change it — before you ever hit the crowd. Every turn comes with a story, not just a direction.
Marketplace of routes
Pick from routes built by Japan experts — guides, podcasters, and creators who know the country inside out. Their best spots (the ones they used to save for paying clients only), their voice — cloned with their consent — guiding you, telling stories, answering your questions. And it's fair: the creator gets paid every time their route sells, at a share several times higher than the market standard. You're not following an algorithm. You're walking with them.
Route Builder
Want full control? Tell WeGuide where you're staying, how you like to move (slow walks? metro hops?), how long you've got. The AI builds a day around your style — or you stack the spots yourself from 1,000+ curated places. Adjust the pace, swap a stop, generate again. Your trip, your rules.
Access for exactly as long as your adventure lasts. No subscription you'll forget to cancel.
Free
75 credits / week
Play around with the app: up to 3 routes.
Trip Pass
450 credits / week
Up to 3 full days of guided sightseeing — or a week of basics.
Less than an hour with a human guide — for your whole week.
Premium
600 credits / week
Up to 5 full days of personal concierge.
Want the full experience every day? Premium costs less than Trip Pass with top-ups.
| Feature | Free | Trip Pass | Premium |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crowd-dodging route generation | 25 cr | 20 cr | 18 cr |
| Turn-by-turn guidance — 1 day | 50 cr | 35 cr | 35 cr |
| Live adaptation: crowds / weather / route changes mid-tour | Not included | Included | Included |
| Narration | Not included | Personalized | Hyper-personalized |
| Text guide (chat) — 1 day | Not included | 15 cr | 12 cr |
| Voice guide — audio narration, 1 day | Not included | 50 cr | 55 cr |
| Voice conversation with your guide | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Creator routes — in their own voice | $14.99 / route | −20% | −33% + first free |
| Escape the Crowd | 1× a day | 2× a day | Unlimited |
| Ads | Audio + banner | Banner | None |
Free shows flat, static place descriptions — no chat and no audio. Prices in credits are per use, at your plan's rates.
| Feature | Free | Trip Pass | Premium |
|---|---|---|---|
| Choice of guide voices | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Photo-spot guide — finds and leads you to the best photo spots | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Personalization profile (interests, pace, crowd tolerance…) | Included | Included | Included |
| Route marketplace — browsing | Included | Included | Included |
| Country map — build routes by hand | Included | Included | Included |
| Country, culture and etiquette info | Included | Included | Included |
| Upload your own plan (txt/md/pdf) → route | 25 cr | 20 cr | 18 cr |
| Regenerate / swap places in a route | 10 cr | 8 cr | 6 cr |
| Save a route for later | 10 cr | 8 cr | 6 cr |
| Practical help on route: toilet / konbini / ATM | Not included | via chat | via voice or chat |
| Guide memory between days | Not included | Included | Included |
| Priority generation | Not included | Not included | Included |
Credit packs: 50 cr — $10 · 150 cr — $25. You spend credits at your plan's rates — on Premium, features cost fewer credits. Your balance is always visible in the app: you pay for what you use, and you can top up anytime from $10.
One tap · works without an account
Crowds getting too much? One tap. Your guide walks you to the nearest quiet spot and tells its story — ask anything. Up to 30 minutes, once a day, no account needed.
Marketplace
Creator-authored routes — narrated in the creator's cloned voice that guides you, tells stories and answers questions. Buy once, keep forever.
Every voice is cloned with the creator's consent — and creators earn a share several times higher than the market standard each time a route sells.
One route, yours forever
$14.99
This is the trip I came for.
— Sarah K. · designer · Brooklyn
I spent 6 weeks building Excel sheets and Pinterest boards. Two days into Tokyo I was already losing hours scrolling Google Maps when something didn't go to plan. WeGuide rerouted me from a closed shrine to a 7-table sushi place in Yanaka I'd never have found. I walked out laughing. That's the trip I came for.
My partner and I almost cancelled Kyoto when rain hit our second morning. Our app pivoted us to a tea house in Higashiyama with a covered garden and a slow narration about wabi-sabi. By the time the rain stopped we didn't want to leave. Best Plan B of our lives.
I'm skeptical of AI everything. But this one knew when to talk and when to shut up. It told me a 90-second story walking into Yanaka cemetery, then went silent so I could feel it. That kind of restraint — I didn't expect it.
I was nervous flying to Tokyo solo — my English is OK but the language wall scared me. WeGuide narrated my Yanaka morning in clear, calm English, kept me away from the worst crowds, and slipped me into a tiny ramen bar I would never have dared enter alone. I came back with stories no one else in Kraków had.
82% of travelers heading to Japan have no Plan B when something goes off-script — a closed shrine, sudden rain, a queue an hour long.
36% of first‑time Japan travelers spend over 40 hours planning their trip.
Source: WeGuide Traveler Survey, March 2026 (n=86).
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