Step-free routes, for everyone.
Wheelchair, stroller, heavy luggage, or an icy sidewalk — Paso guides you around steps and barriers, built together, for free.
🔒 Always free. No background location tracking, ever.
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Step-free route search is expanding area by area within Japan. “Could you pass?” reports can be sent from anywhere in the world.
Navigation built for you
Routes that avoid steps, steep slopes, and ice — tailored to how you move: walking, wheelchair, or stroller.
A map that grows with one tap
Just answer "could you get through here?" — the app translates that into what's hard for whom.
Privacy by design
We never store your raw GPS trail. Location is used only while you're navigating.
Just three steps.
Choose a destination
Navigate step-free
One tap for “Could you pass?”
Could you pass here?
One tap is all. Photos are optional.
Answer or not — navigation stays free, always.
Modes don’t label you.
They’re one-tap presets that change what the map shows.
Everyday
The default view: avoid steps, steep slopes and ice.
Parenting
Diaper stations, nursing rooms and elevators at a glance.
Town upkeep
Report damaged pavement or broken streetlights, in a form that reaches the city.
Disaster
Share impassable streets with your town.
Privacy is a feature.
Privacy policyLocation only in the foreground, while navigating
No raw GPS or personal tracks stored — snapped to road segments or a ~10m grid
Photos are EXIF-stripped and redacted on your device, then human-reviewed before publishing
Public statistics are k≥5 aggregates only
Route search in 8 areas. Reports from anywhere.
Step-free route search is currently limited to covered areas within Japan, opening area by area as each map matures. “Could you pass?” reports, though, work from anywhere in the world — inside or outside covered areas, inside or outside Japan.
Step-free route search
Guidance around steps, slopes and ice is available within covered areas in Japan.
“Could you pass?” reports
One-tap reports work outside covered areas too. They're what opens the next area.
Shortest, or step-free?
Same start, same destination. Computed from real OpenStreetMap data with the app's own cost function — this is how the routes differ.
The shortest distance — but seven flights of stairs stop wheelchairs and strollers.
The detour is just +345 m — with every stair avoided.
Knowing this difference is what Paso's routing is.
© OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Steps are hard barriers; slope, surface, width and freshness are soft penalties (fixed demo route, Hakodate Motomachi area).
Frequently asked questions
Is it really free?
Permanently free for people who navigate with it. Paid plans for businesses and local governments fund the service.
Where can I use it?
Step-free route search currently covers 8 areas within Japan: Hakodate, around Tokyo Station, Shinjuku, Shibuya, Hashimoto, Sagami-Ono, Kamimizo and Mihara — with more opening over time. “Could you pass?” barrier reports, though, work from anywhere in the world, inside or outside covered areas and outside Japan too — that's how everyone builds the map together.
Is there an Android version?
Paso is currently available for iOS.
How is my location handled?
Location is used only in the foreground, while navigating. Raw GPS and personal tracks are never stored — data is snapped to road segments or a ~10m grid.
Where does the map data come from?
It's based on OpenStreetMap, kept up to date by user reports.
Get it on the App Store, now.
Paso for iOS is free to download on the App Store.
View on the App StoreCurrently available for iOS only.