One of the most distinctive and important features of your Animal Crossing: New Horizons island is always your town tune, the jingle that plays when you interact with your fellow islanders. Isabelle lets you customize ACNH tunes, but creative thinking can be difficult if you're not musically inclined.
Even with a seven-second time limit and a limited range of tone options, you can still work on impressive musical magic to make your city sound its best. We've found some of the best, catchiest, and most iconic city tunes you can make for your Animal Crossing island tunes.
Updated January 2, 2026 Gabrielle Castania: With the big update bringing Animal Crossing: New Horizons to Nintendo Switch 2 just around the corner, we're back to update our list of town tunes in ACNH with a few more suggestions to help your island prepare for the new arrivals. Enjoy eight new city tunes as well as some tweaks to our presentation in this list to make sure your ACNH city tune is the best it can be!
Totoro theme
My neighbor Totoro
The top contender for the world's most charming animated family film is Studio Ghibli's My Neighbor Totoro. It follows a family that moves into an old house in the countryside where two young daughters encounter various ghosts, including a huge and cuddly Totoro. You look at him and hear his music in your head.
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To hear it out of your head and in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, you need to go to Leia Leilaniuser's playlist. Here you can listen to the sweet theme tune for the Ghibli mascot and who we wish was a character that would visit our cities and help our crops grow.
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Undertale
A large part of the Undertale fandom is thanks to one lazy and arguably apathetic skeleton with mysterious powers named Sans. He quietly observes your actions throughout the game, but you're generally pleased to see him when he appears. This is partly because he has a sweet theme song to accompany his presence.
While Undertale and Animal Crossing: New Horizons are as different as night and day, A large spoon added Sans Theme to playlist. With this Town Tune, you can imagine Sans watching the progress of your town from somewhere off-screen. Maybe he will find true relaxation and joy in your city?
“I'll Never Give You Up”
Rick Astley
This eclectic collection of ideas for the city Reecee it features the Family Guy theme, Aha's 1985 mega-hit “Take On Me,” the winning Super Mario Sunshine theme, and even the Windows XP startup sound.
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We admire the sheer randomness of the selection and chose this excellent rendition of Rick Astley's 'Never Gonna Give You Up' as our example. After all, who can resist Rick Rolling and their visitors?
Chocobo theme
Final Fantasy
The Final Fantasy series seems to float casually between extreme drama and sequences where you need to do things like catch frogs in a swamp. Some of the early entries raised the stakes very high, but all of that tension was taken away when you rode a Chocobo for the first time. That's because it's kind of dirty and it's a really happy tune.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons soundtrack is already quite happy, but A large spoon turned our attention to the Town Tune version. Put it on and you'll be smiling, but also hoping that some modder out there has made it possible to invite a Chocobo villager to move into our towns.
City Overlooking The Ocean
Kiki's Delivery Service
Studio Ghibli fans are sure to enjoy it Leia Leilani video tuned to the city, thematically focused exclusively on the anime studio. It features songs from Ghibli classics such as Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Ponyo, and Howl's Moving Castle, among several others.
Some tunes have multiple versions, meaning you can choose, but this one takes us straight to Kiki at the bakery. It also has a second part to follow – we just wish we could use both!
Welcome to Dangan Island
Danganronpa
This selection of Danganronpa town tunes covers several parts of the game and includes the morning theme, body discovery chimes, and several songs from the series. Above is the music to Welcome to Dangan Island by CarelesssPrince.
If you want to hear some alternative Danganronpa songs, then definitely check it out Sophisticated StonerA selection of Danganronpa Town Tunes. We promise – Animal Crossing is way healthier than Danganronpa!
“The Final Countdown”
Europe
These ACNH island tunes cover a wide range of topics, including games, folk music and holiday songs. Another popular company in this selection from Jvgsjeff is the airship theme of Final Fantasy 7.
However, we chose 'The Final Countdown' by Europe because that classic rock song has always been iconic and recognisable. This version takes exactly the part you'd expect and leaves you singing the rest in your head.
Route 201 theme
Pokemon Diamond And Pearl
Just like the various pocket monsters that are sucked into Poke Balls, you yourself cannot escape the popularity of Pokemon. It's a series built on solid gameplay, a massive roster of colorful creatures, and a competitive community. With Generation 4, we got the Pokemon Diamond and Pearl playing a beautiful tune that we heard on our travels.
This is the music behind Route 201 and the recreated Town Tune was caught A large spoon. Plug it into your music system and you'll see that you're walking the same path, but you can't walk it alone. Still, you can dress up your villager as a Pokemon trainer and hit the shops for related clothing and decor.
“It's a Small World”
Disney
This compilation of Disney town tunes from Alex Brandenburg features music from the iconic Disney series Frozen, Tangled, Moana, Aladdin and several other classic films from the Disney vault.
Despite the rich selection of options in the collection, we couldn't help but choose this iconic Disney 'It's A Small World' earworm from the Disney World ride of the same name. If you prefer more classic options that will make any Disney fanatic smile, be sure to watch the video and make your choice!
Toss the Coin to your Warlock
The Witcher 3
If you've been cranking up the volume when “Flip a coin to your Witcher” entered our lives — from the game or from Netflix's The Witcher — we've got good news: the instant classic can now be recreated in your town, and it's sure to be sung every time. Thanks Epiphagyniawe now feel Dandelion's vibrations on our island.
Who knows, maybe the love of a song can have visitors helping you when they hear it. All together now “throw some bells to my villager, oh island of plenty, oh island of plenty.” It could catch on, especially if you display a tasteful gift box along with the show.
