One of the most prominent and important features of your Animal Crossing: New Horizons island is always your town tune, the jingle that plays when you interact with your islanders. Isabelle lets you customize your ACNH tunes, but thinking creatively can be tough if you’re not musically inclined.
Even with a seven-second time limit and a limited range of note options, you can still work some impressive musical magic to get your town sounding its best. We’ve found a handful of the best, catchiest, and most iconic town tunes that you can create for your island tunes in Animal Crossing.
Updated on January 2, 2026 by Gabrielle Castania: With the big update to bring Animal Crossing: New Horizons to the 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 prep for the new arrivals. Enjoy eight new town tunes, as well as some improvements to our presentation in this list, to make sure your ACNH town tune is the grooviest it can be!
Totoro Theme
My Neighbor Totoro
A top-tier candidate for the most enchanting family-animated movie in the world is My Neighbor Totoro by Studio Ghibli. It follows a family that moves into an old house in the countryside where the two young daughters come to meet various spirits, including the huge and cuddly Totoro. You look at him and can hear his music in your head.
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To hear it outside your head and in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, you’ll need to go to Leia Leilani‘s playlist. Here, you can listen to the sweet little theme tune for the Ghibli mascot and who we wish was a character that would visit our towns and help our crops grow.
Sans Theme
Undertale
A large part of the Undertale fandom is thanks to one lazy and arguably apathetic skeleton with mysterious powers named Sans. He’s quietly observing your actions throughout the entire game, but you’re generally pleased to see him when he shows up. 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, Big Spoon has added the Sans Theme to the playlist. By having this Town Tune, you can imagine that Sans is watching the development of your town from somewhere off-screen. Maybe your town is where he can find true relaxation and joy?
“Never Gonna Give You Up”
Rick Astley
This eclectic collection of town-tune ideas from Reecee includes the Family Guy theme, Aha’s 1985 mega-hit ‘Take On Me,’ the Super Mario Sunshine victory theme, and even Windows XP’s startup sound.
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We admire the utter 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?
The Chocobo Theme
Final Fantasy
The Final Fantasy series seems to float casually between extreme drama and sequences where you need to do stuff like catch frogs in a swamp. Some of the earliest entries raised the stakes super high, but all that tension was taken away when you got to ride a Chocobo for the first time. That’s because it’s a little ditty and is a truly cheerful tune.
The Animal Crossing: New Horizons soundtrack is already quite happy, but Big Spoon has turned our attention to the Town Tune version. Put this 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.
A Town With An Ocean View
Kiki’s Delivery Service
Studio Ghibli fans are sure to enjoy Leia Leilani’s town tunes video, themed entirely around the anime studio. It includes songs from Ghibli classics like Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Ponyo, and Howl’s Moving Castle, among several others.
Some tunes have multiple versions, meaning you can take your pick, but this one takes us straight to Kiki in the bakery. It also has a second part that follows on — we just wish we could use both!
Welcome To Dangan Island
Danganronpa
This selection of Danganronpa town tunes covers several sections of the game and includes the morning theme, body discovery chimes, and several songs from the series. Above is the music for Welcome to Dangan Island by CarelesssPrince.
If you want to hear some alternative Danganronpa songs, then make sure to check out Sophisticated Stoner‘s Danganronpa Town Tunes selection. We promise — Animal Crossing is way more wholesome than Danganronpa!
“The Final Countdown”
Europe
These ACNH island tunes cover a wide range of themes, including gaming, general music, and holiday songs. Another firm favorite in this selection by Jvgsjeff is the Final Fantasy 7 airship theme.
However, we’ve chosen ‘The Final Countdown’ by Europe due to how iconic and recognizable the classic rock song has always been. This version pulls from the exact part you’d expect and will leave you singing the rest in your head.
Route 201 Theme
Pokemon Diamond And Pearl
Just like the various pocket monsters getting sucked into Poke Balls, you yourself can’t escape the popularity of Pokemon. It’s a series that has built itself on solid gameplay, a massive roster of colorful creatures, and a competitive community. With Generation 4, we got Pokemon Diamond and Pearl playing a lovely tune we heard on our journeys.
This is the music behind Route 201 and the recreated Town Tune was caught by Big Spoon. Plug that into your music system, and you can see yourself walking that same road, but you can’t walk it yourself. Still, you can dress up your Villager as a Pokemon Trainer and hit up the shops for related clothes and decor.
“It’s A Small World”
Disney
This compilation of Disney town tunes by Alex Brandenburg features music from the iconic Disney series Frozen, Tangled, Moana, Aladdin, and several more classic movies from the Disney vault.
Despite the rich choice of options in the collection, we couldn’t help selecting this iconic Disney earworm, ‘It’s A Small World,’ from the ride of the same name in Disney World. If you prefer more classic options that’ll make any Disney fanatic smile, make sure to check out the video to make your choice!
Toss A Coin To Your Witcher
The Witcher 3
If you were cranking up the volume when ‘Toss A Coin To Your Witcher’ came into our lives — from the game or Netflix’s The Witcher — we have good news: the instant classic can now be recreated in your town and is sure to have you singing along each time. Thanks to Epiphajinie, we are now feeling Jaskier’s vibes on our island.
Who knows, maybe the love of the song may have visitors helping you out when they hear it. All together now “toss some bells to my villager, oh island of plenty, oh island of plenty.” It might catch on, especially if you put out a tasteful donation box along with the performance.
