J1 HITS

The directory lists two streams in Japan under this name, told apart by a number alone. This page is number one. Nothing here is taken from the other one.

Position 27 of 88 puts this station in the middle of Japan's directory presence. The middle is worth browsing precisely because the ordering has stopped sorting by fame and has not yet stopped sorting at all.

No language is recorded against this station. The field is optional in the public directory and a great many entries skip it, so an empty language says nothing about what you will hear when you press play. It does keep the station off the language shelves, since a shelf built on guesses would be worse than a shelf with holes.

The stream runs at 128 kbps, level with Japan's median. Bitrate stops being interesting once a station is at the local norm, and the useful question moves on to whether the stream stays up, which no snapshot can answer.

The stream is served from jenny.torontocast.com:2000, an address one other entry in Japan uses as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.

Their site is j1fm.tokyo, on the .tokyo domain. The newer top level domains carry no location information at all, so nothing about the address confirms or contradicts what the directory records.