Best live radio stations in Tokyo
Tokyo is home to NHK, Japan's public broadcaster, and to commercial stations such as TBS Radio, J-WAVE and Tokyo FM. Most Japanese commercial radio streams through radiko, which only works for listeners inside Japan, so the streams open to the rest of the world lean toward NHK World Radio Japan and independent online stations.
Radio Map has 29 live streams from in and around Tokyo right now. Most of them broadcast in Japanese and Chinese. These are the 11 most played, ranked by recent listener clicks.
▶ Play NHK WORLD RADIO liveOpens the live radio map on Tokyo. Spin the globe from there to hear more of the city.
Music stations in Tokyo
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J-Pop Sakura (asia DREAM radio)
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J1 HITS
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Kamakura FM
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Radi.fm 中文古典音乐
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Moon Mission Recordings, Tokyo Deep and Electronic
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Radi.fm クラシック Nippon
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Jazz Sakura
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Oreo Chii
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Rainwave All
News, talk and sport in Tokyo
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NHK WORLD RADIO
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NHKワールド・ラジオ日本
How this list is ranked
Stations are ranked by recent listener clicks in Radio Browser, the open station directory behind Radio Map, counting streams located in Tokyo or within about 60 km of it. Only stations with a working secure stream are listed, and duplicate streams of the same station are merged. Rankings are refreshed from live data, last on 2026-11-13.