{"id":244302,"date":"2026-01-21T12:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T12:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/244302\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T12:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T12:11:09","slug":"apple-fitness-is-now-available-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/244302\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Fitness+ is now available in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/newsroom\/2025\/12\/apple-fitness-plus-expands-to-28-new-markets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">expanded its Fitness+ service to 28 markets last month<\/a>, including Chile, Hong Kong, India, the Netherlands, Singapore, and Taiwan, and said that Fitness+ would launch in Japan in early 2026. Well, it&#8217;s not really early 2026, but the service is now available in the East Asian island country.<\/p>\n<p>The Apple Fitness+ subscription costs JPY980\/month or JPY7,800\/year in Japan. However, new Fitness+ users in Japan will get a free one-month trial, while those purchasing a new Apple Watch, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, AirPods Pro 3, or Powerbeats Pro 2 are eligible for a 3-month trial.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760089027_826_gsmarena_001.jpg\" alt=\"Apple Fitness+ is now available in Japan\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Members of Anytime Fitness can also access Apple Fitness+ as a part of their membership, while those having a free trial of Anytime Fitness can access Fitness+ for two months for free.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the usual set of benefits and features, Apple Fitness+ users in Japan will have access to 12 workout and meditation types with Japanese audio and subtitles.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the Artist Spotlight series will feature Japanese musical duo YOASOBI, while the episodes of &#8220;Time to Walk&#8221; audio walking experience activity will feature Japanese comedian and actress Naomi Watanabe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-source\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/jp\/newsroom\/2026\/01\/apple-fitness-plus-now-available-in-japan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Source<\/a> (in Japanese)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple expanded its Fitness+ service to 28 markets last month, including Chile, Hong Kong, India, the Netherlands, Singapore,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[342,111,139,69,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-244302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}