Your travel docent for Kyoto

Make your Kyoto deeper.

✓ Audio stories at each place

✓ History, culture & ideas explained

✓ Insight that’s only yours

Get Odys-say

Understand Kyoto, one place at a time.

Through each story, discover the history, culture, and ideas that shaped the city.

How it works

Walk near a place.
The story finds you.

Your first place is just steps away.

now

Tap to hear the story made for you.

Inside each story

From place,
to idea,
to insight.

For example: a place.

01 · Discover

Meet the ideas behind the place.

a place

In this story, you’ll discover

Chapter 1

02 · Hear

Learn them through the story.

Chapter 1

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03 · Make it yours

End with an insight made for you.

…with full knowledge of the cost — and then they showed up.

A reflection for you

Based on what you came to reflect on, the story ends somewhere only yours — a question, or an insight, meant for you.

Common questions

Typical audio guides explain what happened. Odys-say goes further — each place story helps you understand the history, culture, and ideas behind it, then ends with a personal insight shaped around what's on your mind.

Each place introduces one or two ideas that help you understand Kyoto more deeply — from history and politics to culture, art, religion, and philosophy. You learn them through the story of the place you're standing in.

Explore Kyoto as you normally would. When you're near one of Odys-say's story places, your phone can let you know. Tap the notification, and the story is ready to hear right where you are.

Yes. Your first Kyoto story is included. Tell us what's on your mind for the trip, and Odys-say will unlock a story that fits. If you want to keep exploring after that, you can unlock the rest of Kyoto with a one-time purchase.

The story itself stays grounded in the place. What changes is what comes at the end. Based on what you chose to reflect on, Odys-say connects something from the story to a question or insight that feels relevant to you.

Your first story is included. If you want to keep exploring, you can unlock all of Kyoto for $9.99. It's a one-time purchase — not a subscription.

A deeper way to travel Kyoto

Stories that reveal the place— and reflect something back to you.