Field recordings from my trip with Angie to Japan and Korea in autumn 2026. Recorded on Pixel 8a phone with Easy Voice Recorder Pro app.
List of recordings and descriptions
2025-09-21 08-40 VIE airport toilet
Background music, An der schönen blauen Donau, Wiener Blut, but some beat-y cover version. Background chatter of women waiting for toilets, shuffling around, doors open and close. Good for: snippets of waltz with beats
2025-09-21 13-45 Air china takeoff
Chinese announcement, Vienna Beijing flight. Security announcements, female voice. Background humming of plane ventilation. Good for: quite clear Chinese plane announcements
2025-09-23 12-24 Drums at Fukagawa
Rythmic drums at a shrine in Tokyo. Some Japanese temple singing in the background, single male voice. Good for: some drums, some distant praying/singing
2025-09-23 17-56 Cicadas Inokashira park Kichijoj
Thin but quite clear cicada sounds without background chattering or shuffling. Good for: clear cicada sound
2025-09-24 11-38 Kawagoe kissa Hoshino coffee
Kissa coffeeshop background sounds. Jazzy piano, chattering, clanking. Pouring coffee. Some Japanese when getting the food served. Calm, happy. Good for: kissa soundscape
2025-09-24 17-13 Ikebukuro evening
Street sounds when walking along a main shopping road in Ikebukuro in the evning. Passing shops with music, people chatting, snippets of Japanese chat, piano music, pachinko palace with some K-pop. Good for: mix of street, chat and music sounds, busy
2025-09-24 18-55 Ikebukuro food hall
Vendors in food hall advertising their stuff in a repetitive sing-songy way, Japanese. Bit noisy background, not very clear sounds. But interesting cadences. Good for: odd Japanese sound snippets
2025-09-25 18-47 Walk through Shibuonsen
Water slushing from the hot springs. Good for: gentle water slushing
2025-09-26 09-37 Yudanaka train station
Theme song of Yudanaka train station. Japanese folky song. Car in rain passing by. Fun song. Good for: jaunty folk song in the distance
2025-09-26 14-14 Crow on mount Higashidate
A few single, quiet crow calls. Good for: a few single quiet crow calls
2025-09-26 18-58 Yudanaka shrine
Japanese shrine music, plucking instrument. Quite quiet in the distance, with shuffling around. Music sounds similar to shrine theme in Promise Mascot Agency. Good for: Japanese shrine music snippet
2025-09-27 14-23 Nagano station
Clear Japanese train station announcement, male voice, nice jingle (music box-style), background noises. Train comes in. Then muffled announcement, female voice. Different other announcements cutting in. Some English in the end, jingle cutting in. Good for: clear or messy train station announcements
2025-09-27 17-14 Bugs in Okayama garden 01
Fizzly bugs in the park that are rhythmic and then fizzle out. Good for: fizzly bug sound
2025-09-28 10-53 Bugs on Naoshima
Fizzly bugs on Naoshima island that are are rhythmic and then fizzle out. Good for: fizzly bug sound
2025-09-30 09-52 Hiroshima tram to Miyajima
Female and male tram announcements while being on the tram. Rhythmic track sounds. Train halting, then going again. Beeping, air vent sound. Brief jingle. Loud train noise. Good for: train scene with announcements
2025-09-30 10-01 Hiroshima tram to Miyajima 01
Female and male tram announcements while being on the tram. Rhythmic track sounds. Train halting, then going again. Beeping, air vent sound. Brief jingle. Loud train noise. Good for: train scene with announcements
2025-09-30 11-27 Miyajima island bugs
Fizzly bugs in the park that are rhythmic and then fizzle out. Gong from shrine in the background. Good for: fizzly bug sound, quiet gong
Train Lund-Malmö 2025-09-15
Train chattering, Swedish announcement, male voice. Chattering in foreground. English announcement. Good for: Swedish train announcement