JP · tokyo
NHK World Radio 13
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- international
66 kbps · AAC · Record last changed 4 Oct 2026
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What the directory records
Record last changed 4 Oct 2026
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Not stated
- Format
- AAC
- Stream
- HLS playlist
- Last catalogue check
- Stream answered
- Broadcaster
- www3.nhk.or.jp
NHK World Radio 13 is one of six entries in Japan whose names are the same but for a number, and this one's number is thirteen. A broadcaster numbering its streams like that is separating feeds, not stations, so read the number as the part that matters.
At position 77 of 88, this is one of the stations in Japan that almost nobody arrives at by browsing. That is the case for having a page at all. A station reachable only by knowing its name is a station most directories lose.
NHK World Radio 13 streams at 66 kbps, under Japan's median of 128 kbps. A lower rate is not automatically worse: speech carries perfectly well below the music threshold, and a station built for phones on a weak connection has a good reason to encode this way.
NHK World Radio 13 publishes an HLS stream. That is a modern and perfectly good way to broadcast, and it is also why the button on this page may not start it: HLS needs a player that can read a playlist and fetch segments, which a browser audio tag does not do on its own.
The stream is served from master.nhkworld.jp, an address six other entries in Japan use as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.
- City or region
- tokyo
- Country
- Japan
NHK World Radio 13 is one of 68 playable stations the catalogue lists in Japan, and one of the smaller number that say where in the country they transmit from.
These are counts of what people did inside the public radio-browser catalogue and the apps that read it, over the whole life of the entry. They are not our own figures and they are not an audience measurement: most entries in this catalogue sit under five all-time plays, so a small number here means the catalogue has little to say about this station rather than that nobody listens to it.
Broadcast by NHK World Radio 13. Stream served directly by the broadcaster. Their own site is at www3.nhk.or.jp.
Listed in the directory as NHK WORLD RADIO 13. The heading above is that entry with the web address, the trailing keyword list and the block capitals taken out of it, which is a change to the spelling and to nothing else.
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