The pictures on this page needed fixing. The French, German and Korean captions still used a word we had replaced inside the app, and one of the iPad pictures came out blank. The app itself is unchanged this time.

The tab at the bottom now has the same name as the screen it opens, and the JR Pass screen is called the calculator here as well as in the store. When a route is not covered yet, the app says so in plain English instead of talking about sample data and data keys. Behind the scenes: German, Spanish, French, Korean and both Chinese scripts were read by native speakers with the English hidden, then rewritten wherever they read as a translation rather than as writing.

No changes inside the app this time. We only refreshed how NipponGo looks on its store page.

The JR Pass calculator was giving the pass too much credit. It let you count more city travel days than the pass actually covers, which nudged the answer toward buying one. It now stops at the length of the pass you picked. Sharing your result works properly again. The download is also about 20 MB smaller, tap targets are bigger, and font licences are listed in Settings.

No changes inside the app this time. We only refreshed how NipponGo looks on its store page.

The typeface now travels inside the app, so the text looks right with no connection. Turn the phone sideways and the headline stays clear of the camera cutout and the title bar. Lists dissolve into the page at the top and bottom instead of stopping on an invisible line. At the largest text sizes every label stays whole.

What's new - Optional notifications, so a JR Pass price change reaches you before your trip. You decide whether to turn them on. - Short in-app notices when something important changes. - Fixed the Rate and Support buttons in Settings. They used to do nothing at all. - Long titles and button labels no longer get cut off, in any language. - Fixed the status bar, which could turn invisible on the light theme.

What's new - Share your JR Pass result as an image to send to friends. - Get a real Japanese phone number right in the app, under Tools. - A cleaner, simpler JR Pass screen.