For trips to Japan
Your Japan trip, sorted.
Add the flights and hotels you’ve already booked, and Mado fills in the rest: when booking opens for the places you want, in your own time zone; how to get from one city to the next; and what’s still left to sort before you fly.
Free on iPhone, for Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Hakone and Fuji Five Lakes.
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Start with what’s booked
Your dates, your flights, and where you sleep each night, even if the hotel isn’t booked yet. Mado turns it into a route (Tokyo, then Hakone, then Kyoto, say) with the travel days in between.
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Add the places you want
Restaurants, ryokans, museums and day trips, picked for each stop from your tastes, your budget, your dietary needs and where you’re staying.
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Hear from Mado when it’s time
Mado works out when booking opens for each place on the days you’re there and alerts you at that minute. A checklist keeps track of everything else you still have to do.
Your whole trip in one place
Every stop with its hotel, every place you’ve planned and every travel day, in order. Each booking shows where it stands: open now, or how many days until it opens.
Every booking time, in your time zone
Japan’s most wanted tables and ryokans open for booking weeks ahead, often in the middle of your night. Mado shows each one in your time zone with Japan time beside it, so you never book for the wrong day across the date line. Subscribe to it in Apple Calendar or Google Calendar.
Alerts at the right minute
A heads-up the day before, then again minutes before booking opens. For the tables you really want, Wake me up breaks through quiet hours with notifications and texts until you say you’re on it. Then one tap opens the right booking page.
Places that fit your trip
Picks for each stop and the day trips near it, matched to your tastes, where you’re staying, your budget and your dietary needs. Your day plan warns you when two bookings sit too close together or a place is closed that day.
A checklist for the rest
A hotel for every night, seats on the travel days, an eSIM, a plug adapter. Each item says why and by when, and Mado nudges you when something is due. The plug and visa notes follow your home city.
Ask Mado
Ask anything about your trip, like where to eat near Gion on a free evening or whether you need a seat reservation to Kyoto. Answers bring places from Mado’s own list, and sources when it searches the web. It never books or changes anything for you.
From landing to flying home
Travel days
The evening before you move, Mado tells you which station to leave from and how long the ride takes. Your flight’s status sits with your arrival, and a card in Japanese shows a taxi driver where your hotel is.
Beyond Tokyo
Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Hakone and Fuji Five Lakes, with the trains between them, the day trips from each and a rail pass sheet that checks whether a pass pays off.
We never book for you
When booking opens, one tap takes you to the right place: TableCheck, OMAKASE, the venue’s own site, or its phone number, with the hours to call in both time zones. The booking stays between you and the venue.
Honest about what it knows
Every booking rule comes from a published page, and each one shows when we last checked it. When a time is an estimate, the app says so.
Free for every trip
Every trip, recommendation and alert is free: notifications, email, texts (US and Canada numbers), Live Activities, Wake me up and Ask Mado. Some links are marked “Paid link”: if you book through one, Mado earns a commission and your price doesn’t change.
Plan the trip. Never miss the minute booking opens.