Gensokyo Radio (OGG)

Gensokyo Radio (OGG) sits in the tail of Japan's 88 entries. The tail is the part of a directory that goes missing first, and it is the part worth keeping: the head of every country's list is the same handful of national broadcasters, and everything that makes a dial local is behind them.

The open count against Gensokyo Radio (OGG) is three, which is enough to know the stream has been played through the directory and not enough to compare it with anything. Small counts are the normal case out here, and a ranking built from them separates stations by luck as much as by interest.

No bitrate is recorded against this stream. It is a common gap: the value is scraped from the stream's headers and plenty of servers do not send them. Press play and your browser will tell you more in two seconds than the field would have.

The stream is OGG, which is unusual anywhere: Japan's listing is dominated by MP3. Formats outside the common three are typically a deliberate choice by a broadcaster who cares about the encoding chain, and they are also the ones most likely to give a browser trouble.

Its audio comes from stream.gensokyoradio.net. Two other stations in Japan stream from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.