Know the city.
Not just the sights.
Yoro teaches you the culture, history, food, and unwritten rules of the world's greatest cities - through short quizzes that actually stick.
Tipping at a Tokyo restaurant is considered:
Pick your city.
Go deep.
The stuff no
guidebook tells you. Ever.
"Haussmann's grand boulevards were designed to stop revolutions."
Wide straight streets let cavalry operate and artillery deploy. The most beautiful city in the world was partly engineered as a military installation.
"Golden Gai has 200 bars seating 6 people each - and that's the point."
The tiny space dissolves Tokyo's famous social reserve. Strangers 40cm apart can't maintain Japanese formality. Intimacy engineered through architecture.
"The Hanoi Hilton was built by the French - to jail Vietnamese people."
Hoa Lo Prison was built in 1896 to hold Vietnamese independence fighters. When the US named it sarcastically, they didn't know whose side the walls were on.
How it works - it's stupidly simple.
Pick a city
Choose any city you're visiting or just curious about. 10 cities now - more added all the time.
Answer surprising questions
5 questions per lesson, nothing obvious. Every answer teaches you something you didn't know you didn't know.
Build the habit
One daily question keeps your streak alive. Real knowledge, built one question at a time.
Everything you need to
become a local.
Daily streak
One question a day. The smallest possible habit with the biggest possible payoff.
XP and levels
Just Landed to Gone Local. Level up as you actually learn - not just by showing up.
Never-ending content
New lessons every week. No completion screen - just more world to explore.
Streak shields
5 shields a month for premium members. Miss a day - your streak is safe.
Qombat - live duels
Challenge any player in real time. Same questions, same second. Embarrassingly fun.
Daily quick tips
One cultural insight, refreshed daily. Like a local whispering in your ear.
For people who travel to understand, not just to visit.
You read before you go. You ask locals questions. You come home knowing things. You're not a tourist - you're genuinely curious.
Not a guidebook. Not trivia. A way to build real cultural intelligence about the places that fascinate you - in the time it takes to drink a coffee.