Travel times between areas

Between two areas of your trip, say Osaka to Kyoto or Tokyo to Hakone, the app shows a leg: how you travel and about how long it takes. Where that number came from decides how much to trust it, so every leg says so.

The three labels

Label	Where the time came from	How much to trust it
Routed	A real route measured by Apple Maps.	The best the app has. Traffic and delays still apply.
AI suggested	An AI's recall of how people usually make this journey. Premium with AI assistance on.	A good starting point. It's from memory, not a live timetable, and it isn't a booking.
Estimate	A rule of thumb from the distance between the two ends.	The roughest. Check it before you rely on it.

What the AI adds

With AI assistance on, Auto-plan asks the AI about each journey between consecutive areas. When it answers, a leg can show:

• the way travellers realistically make the journey: train, flight, ferry or road;
• the airport or station actually used at each end;
• operators that typically run it, and the typical time spent moving;
• a short sentence from the AI, and whether the route runs only in some seasons.

It also gives a view on whether an area is worth the detour, and warns when a long airport run on the last night looks like a problem. If it judges an area isn't worth the trip, that area goes back to your saved places and you can add it back.

When it doesn't apply

• A trip with a single area has no journey between areas, so nothing is asked.
• If the AI doesn't answer, your phone's own estimates are used and the run says so: "Planned on this device — the AI step didn't answer this time."
• The same route isn't asked twice. A saved answer is reused for up to 30 days.

Where to find it

Open the trip, tap the How you move row on the Departures board to see every leg, or open a travel day. See How you move.