Skip to main content
Search Button
Australia Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...

Japan Audiobooks

If you like Japan Audiobooks, then you'll love these top picks.
Showing 1 - 24 of 42 Results
Skip side bar filters

  • Audiobook

    Wabi Sabi

    Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life

    by Beth Kempton ...
    Narrated by Beth Kempton ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 17 min

    'A truly transformative read' Sunday Times STYLE'More than ever, we need books like this' Jessica Seaton, Co-Founder of Toast and author of Gather, Cook, FeastA whole new way of looking at the world - and your life - inspired by centuries-old Japanese wisdom.Wabi sabi ("wah-bi sah-bi") is a captivating concept from Japanese aesthetics, which helps us to see beauty in imperfection, apprecia... ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Zen: The Art of Simple Living

    by Shunmyo Masuno ...
    Narrated by Adam Sims ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 37 min

    Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Zen: The Art of Simple Living by Shunmyo Masuno, read by Adam Sims.Relax and find happiness amid the swirl of the modern world with this internationally bestselling guide to simplifying your life by a Japanese monk who embodies the wisdom of Zen.Drawing on centuries of wisdom, renowned Zen Buddhist priest Shunmyo Masuno applies the essence of Zen to modern ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Learn Japanese with Paul Noble for Beginners – Complete Course: Japanese Made Easy with Your 1 million-best-selling Personal Language Coach

    by Paul Noble ...
    Narrated by Paul Noble ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 9 min

    No books. No long lists of vocabulary. No chance of failure.Welcome to Learn with Paul Noble – a tried and tested language learning method that has been used by over 1 million people to speak fluently and confidently.With Paul Noble’s simple, relaxed approach you will learn in a way that suits you – without having to memorise long lists of words you won’t use; scribbling notes as you listen; or ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Abroad in Japan

    by Chris Broad ...

    Unabridged

    Brought to you by Penguin.When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a huge mistake. With no knowledge of the language and zero teaching experience, was he was about to be the most quickly fired English teacher in Japan's history?Abroad in Japan charts a decade of living in a foreign land and the chaos and culture clash that comes with it. ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

    PRE-ORDER

  • Audiobook

    Samurai Road

    by Lawrence WInkler ...
    Narrated by Lawrence WInkler ...

    Unabridged

    25 hours 9 min

    Most remote islands of the imagination conjure up paradise. Japan is an archipelago of puzzlement, lost to the rest of the world for two and a half centuries.From the sands that forged their swords and serenity, they traveled a timeline of temples and shrines and feudal fortresses and flowing mountain streams. On sashimi and soy sauce, green tea over rice, they lived under cherry blossoms and ... Read more

    $46.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Tokyo Junkie

    60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys ... and Baseball

    by Robert Whiting, Claire Bloom ...
    Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 50 min

    Tokyo Junkie is a memoir that plays out over the dramatic sixty-year growth of the megacity Tokyo, once a dark, fetid backwater and now the most populous, sophisticated, and safe urban capital in the world.Follow author Robert Whiting (The Chrysanthemum and the Bat, You Gotta Have Wa, Tokyo Underworld) as he watches Tokyo transform during the 1964 Olympics, rubs shoulders with the Yakuza and comes ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Tokio ya no nos quiere

    by Ray Loriga ...
    Narrated by Pablo Martínez Gugel ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 49 min

    Tokio ya no nos quiere es un libro de viajes, una novela sobre el amor, un texto contra la memoria y la esperanza que nos describe un mundo en el que los humanos son extranjeros de sí mismos y el miedo lo ocupa todo.Un viaje a un futuro no muy lejano en el que una de las drogas legales es un producto químico que permite borrar de la memoria los recuerdos no deseados. En un mundo en el que se ha ... Read more

    $30.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Asian Journals

    India and Japan

    by Joseph Campbell ...
    Narrated by Fred Stella ...
    series The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell

    Unabridged

    26 hours 56 min

    At the beginning of his career, Joseph Campbell developed a lasting fascination with the cultures of the Far East, and explorations of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy later became recurring motifs in his vast body of work. However, Campbell had to wait until middle age to visit the lands that inspired him so deeply. In 1954, he took a sabbatical from his teaching position and embarked on a year-long ... Read more

    $68.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Andrew Zimmern visits Japan

    Chapter 14 from THE BIZARRE TRUTH

    by Andrew Zimmern ...
    Narrated by Andrew Zimmern ...

    Unabridged

    25 min

    Andrew Zimmern, the host of The Travel Channel’s hit series Bizarre Foods, has an extraordinarily well-earned reputation for traveling far and wide to seek out and sample anything and everything that’s consumed as food globally, from cow vein stew in Bolivia and giant flying ants in Uganda to raw camel kidneys in Ethiopia, putrefied shark in blood pudding in Iceland and Wolfgang Puck's Hunan style ... Read more

    $2.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Etiquette Guide to Japan

    Know the rules that make the difference!

    by Boye Lafayette De Mente, Geoff Botting ...
    Narrated by Tim Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 42 min

    Minding your manners is an acquired skill, but what serves you well elsewhere could trip you up in Japan. Save yourself possible embarrassment with Etiquette Guide to Japan. An inside look at Japanese social graces, it answers all the questions of the thoughtful traveler. Extensive, specific information on Japanese business etiquette assists readers traveling to Japan for business. Although often ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Power of Chowa

    Finding Your Balance Using the Japanese Wisdom of Chowa

    by Akemi Tanaka ...
    Narrated by Susan Hingley ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 35 min

    The Japanese wisdom of chowa offers a fresh perspective on how to live, and new ways both to make space and find balance among the many different directions that modern life pulls us in.Chowa is a Japanese concept that is often translated as 'harmony', but more accurately means 'the search for balance'. Chowa is both a philosophy and a set of practices that can help us get to the heart of what is ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Japan Is Very Wonderful - The Guide to Tokyo, Hakone, Kyoto and the Kumano Kodo

    by Pearl Howie ...
    Narrated by Pearl Howie ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 35 min

    Japan was the beginning of something extraordinary.Much of who I was on that trip has disappeared. Relationships, business, home, beliefs have all gone or changed radically. But Japan was not my trip, this was the escape of a lifetime for a client.I discovered that amazing things don’t just happen when you follow your dreams, they also happen when you help others follow theirs.My guidebooks have ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Mountain Madness

    Found and Lost in the Peaks of America and Japan

    by Clinton Crockett Peters ...
    Narrated by Adam Verner ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 8 min

    With Mountain Madness, Clinton Crockett Peters chronicles his travels and personal transformation from a West Texas evangelical to mountain guide-addict to humbled humanist after a near-fatal injury in Japan's Chichibu Mountains. From 2007 to 2010, Peters lived in Kosuge Village (population nine hundred), nestled in central Japan's peaks, where he was the only foreigner in the rugged town. Using ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Japan - Culture Smart!

    The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

    by Paul Norbury ...
    Narrated by Peter Noble ...
    series Culture Smart!

    Unabridged

    3 hours 29 min

    Japan is at a crossroads. The postwar economic miracle that brought it unprecedented development and prosperity is over. Since the publication of the first Culture Smart! guide, it has been overtaken by China as the world's second-largest economy. The balance of power in Asia has shifted and new players are entering the field. No one can predict how Japan will rise to the challenge, or what effect ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Next Steps in Japanese with Paul Noble for Intermediate Learners – Complete Course: Japanese Made Easy with Your 1 million-best-selling Personal Language Coach

    by Paul Noble ...
    Narrated by Paul Noble ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 24 min

    No books. No long lists of vocabulary. No chance of failure.Welcome to Learn with Paul Noble – a tried and tested language learning method that has been used by over 1 million people to speak fluently and confidently.Take your Japanese to the next level and further your fluency with Paul’s simple, relaxed approach and learn in a way that suits you – without having to memorise long lists of words ... Read more

    $31.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Japan, für dich ein Spaziergang!

    Mit diesem Hörbuch wird deine Japanreise ein entspannter Genuss mit viel Spass, Freude und fröhlichen Begegnungen!

    by Ronja Sakata ...
    Narrated by Ronja Sakata ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 57 min

    Du denkst in Japan machst du alles falsch und trittst in jedes Fettnäpfchen? Mit diesem Hörbuch lösen sich deine Unsicherheiten und Sorgen in Luft auf, denn du bekommst ein konkretes Drehbuch für Japan, inklusive Japanisch. Deine Reisevorfreude vervielfacht sich und du bekommst ganz viel Lust darauf noch mehr Japanisch zu lernen. Wie? Online mit dem Gratis Japanischkurs der Autorin. ronjasakata ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    京都歷史迷走

    by 胡川安 ...
    Narrated by 胡川安 ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours

    以京都為名，縱為時間，橫為空間，傳統與現代交錯出充滿立體感的聲音行旅。《和食古早味》、《東京歷史迷走》的胡川安，重新演繹這個深受旅人歡迎，卻又神祕的古代城市，告訴你在地人知道的京都：傳統的古都，曾是日本的流行中心！各地的諸侯都想瞭解京都、渴望京都所象徵的權力，直到天皇遷都…給京都這座平安城帶來巨大的改變；走入現代化的京都國立博物館與代表京都學問之首的京都大學，無不展現這座古都的深度；還有平安神宮、伏見稻荷大社、清水寺、南禪寺自古就是人們參拜旅行的熱門景點，即使是一千年後的現代，觀光客仍然絡繹不絕；和食、和菓子藝術，是自成一格的飲食，連結土地與季節，宗教與社會，建立京都豐厚的飲食文化！京都，擁有專屬的漫步速度、角度和深度京都，擁有許多在地人才知道的這些、那些事看似靜懿悠然的古都，其實在日本歷史上是個不斷流動著的城市！這裡是值得你閉上眼聆聽欣賞的京都，傳統與現代，在人們的心目中 ... Read more

    $13.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Water, Wood, and Wild Things

    Learning Craft and Cultivation in a Japanese Mountain Town

    by Hannah Kirshner ...
    Narrated by Hannah Kirshner ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 51 min

    **"With this book, you feel you can stop time and savor the rituals of life." --Maira KalmanAn immersive journey through the culture and cuisine of one Japanese town, its forest, and its watershed--where ducks are hunted by net, saké is brewed from the purest mountain water, and charcoal is fired in stone kilns--by an American writer and food stylist who spent years working alongside artisans**One ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Little Teashop in Tokyo (Romantic Escapes, Book 6)

    by Julie Caplin ...
    Narrated by Charlotte Worthing ...
    Audiobook 6 - Romantic Escapes

    Unabridged

    10 hours 23 min

    ‘Up there with the best of them…A big, fat five stars from me’ Sue Moorcroft‘An irresistible slice of escapism’ Phillipa AshleyGrab your passport and escape to a land of dazzling skyscrapers, steaming bowls of comforting noodles, and a page-turning love story that will make you swoon!For travel blogger Fiona, Japan has always been top of her bucket list so when she wins an all-expenses paid trip, ... Read more

    $32.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Kokoro

    Japanese Wisdom for a Life Well-lived

    by Beth Kempton ...

    Unabridged

    Kokoro [n.] heart-mind, spiritThis book is an invitation to cultivate stillness and contentment in an ever-changing, uncertain world. Drawing on a thousand years of Japanese literature, culture and philosophical ideas to explore the true nature of time and what it means to be human, Kokoro - which mysteriously translates as 'heart-mind' - is a meditation on living well.Join Japanologist Beth ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

    PRE-ORDER

  • Audiobook

    The Phone Box at the Edge of the World

    The most moving, unforgettable book you will read, inspired by true events

    by Laura Imai Messina ...
    Narrated by Yuriri Naka ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 40 min

    'Absolutely breathtaking' Christy Lefteri, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo.We all have something to tell those we have lost . . .On a windy hill in Japan, in a garden overlooking the sea stands a disused phone box. For years, people have travelled to visit the phone box, to pick up the receiver and speak into the wind: to pass their messages to loved ones no longer with ... Read more

    $83.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Learn Japanese in your car

    by Bobby Allen, Hiroko Isa ...
    Narrated by Bobby Allen, Hiroko Isa ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 7 min

    This audio language learning book is made for learning Japanese in your car while driving.You can also use this audio language learning book while you exercise and you can listen to it while you sleep.This audio book is designed for learning speaking Japanese without making any notes and using any books. ... Read more

    $7.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Real Japanese

    by Max Whittle ...
    Narrated by Max Whittle ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 51 min

    If you need to know the key differences between POLITE and FRIENDLY Japanese, then keep reading…...Real Japanese is an easy-to-read blend of short stories, key phrases and language learning tips to get you started in Japanese. It also shows you the key differences between formal and everyday Japanese, which is a game changer and completely lacking from most Japanese language books.Lonely planet ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    101 Amazing Facts about Japan

    by Jack Goldstein ...
    Narrated by Charles King ...
    Audiobook 53 - 101 Amazing Facts

    Unabridged

    43 min

    How much do you know about Japan? Whether you’re planning a visit or are just fascinated by Japanese culture, you’ll enjoy learning all about the country famous for kitten cafes, Samurai and the Sky Tree. In this fascinating audiobook, narrator Charles King talks us through over one hundred amazing facts, from interesting information about the country’s climate and geography to famous figures from ... Read more

    $7.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial