Free FM Tokyo

Out of 88 entries in Japan, this one ranks 10. The upper quarter of a national list is an interesting place to be: well known enough to have accumulated opens, not so well known that it is the station everybody already had.

At 29 recorded opens, Free FM Tokyo is one of the streams that people actually reach through the public directory rather than through a station's own app. The count is the whole basis of the ranking on this site, and it is worth knowing that it measures directory traffic specifically.

Language and country do not match up the obvious way here. Free FM Tokyo transmits from Japan, where Japanese leads the listing, and broadcasts in English, which seven of the country's stations use.

The shelf for the language holds 5,984 stations, led by United States. A station like this one broadcasting from Japan is what stops that shelf from being a second copy of one country's hub.

Nothing else in Japan's listing leads with free fm. The tag is self-declared, which makes it a statement of how the broadcaster positions itself rather than a classification anyone audited, and on this dial that statement is unique.

320 kbps against Japan's median of 128. Streams at this rate are the ones worth finding a good pair of headphones for, and they are uncommon: 65% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps at all.