Radio Hayama

Radio Hayama is deep in Japan's listing, at 57 of 88. Down here the ordering barely orders anything: the difference between one position and the next is often a single recorded open, so treat the neighbours below as a shelf rather than as a ranking.

With four recorded opens, Radio Hayama sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in Japan's list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

Radio Hayama has no language recorded in the directory. We do not infer one. Guessing from the country would put every station in Japan on the same shelf regardless of what it broadcasts, which is exactly the kind of filled-in blank that makes a directory untrustworthy.

At 192 kbps the stream is on the better side of Japan's dial, where the median is 128 kbps. Not dramatically so, and bitrate is only one of several things that decide whether a stream sounds good, but it is the one the directory records.

The stream is served from server10.reliastream.com, which no other entry in Japan uses in this snapshot. Nothing else in the listing shares its fate: if this address stops answering it is this broadcaster's own outage, and if it plays, it plays.