One app, the whole road to Japanese: every kanji on the path from N5 through N3, taught stroke by stroke, graded stories and conversations with native audio on every line, and a spaced-review engine that makes it stick. Built by a working Japanese teacher — and the entire curriculum is laid out below, every lesson in teaching order. No mystery tree, no filler. This is the Way.
Most apps hide their curriculum behind a skill tree. Ours is this page: every lesson, kanji, grammar garden, story, review and listening exercise from N5 to N3, in the exact order you'll learn it. You always know where you are on the Way and what comes next.
All 634 kanji of the Way with guided writing practice, readings in context and real etymology — write them, don't just recognize them.
14,000+ studio-quality clips, bundled offline. Every sentence speaks — and in conversations, each character has their own voice.
Spaced-repetition reviews across everything you've learned, self-graded flashcard decks, and a 印帳 stamp album that tracks your mastery.
73 graded stories using only what you've been taught — tap any word for an instant gloss, toggle furigana and romaji as you grow.
56 guided grammar arcs, です through advanced けいご — taught with conversations and drills, with charts as the reference, not the lesson.
27 pure-listening exercises that grow with the path — train your ear on passages built from exactly the Japanese you know.
The Gairaigo Gauntlet: hundreds of words you already half-know (コーヒー、ホテル…) turned into instant vocabulary with type-in-kana drills.
Sentence scrambles, Link Up, marathon runs, the Counting Counter — quests and daily streaks that make review a game, not a chore.
The training layer on top of the Way: ask Rikizo anything about a sentence and get a real answer, custom stories and remedial lessons written for you at your exact level, Check-Up tests that find your weak spots, and a full JLPT Test-Prep mode: hundreds of extra standard-JLPT words per level in bite-size vocab packs — a head start on vocabulary the Way teaches in full later — plus five drill styles, its own dictionary and mock exams.
N5 ships now; N4 is built and N3 is in production, and both unlock as you walk the path. Feedback on the ordering is very welcome.
18 lessons · 104 kanji · 430 words, plus 15 grammar gardens, 10 stories and 10 reviews. Available now.
Beyond the path: an optional test-prep pool of 323 more standard JLPT-N5 words for testing out early — part of the upcoming Shugyō subscription.
36 lessons · 182 kanji · 705 words, plus 23 grammar gardens, 19 stories and 19 reviews. Unlocks after N5.
Beyond the path: an optional test-prep pool of 317 more standard JLPT-N4 words for testing out early — part of the upcoming Shugyō subscription.
86 lessons · 348 kanji · 1,842 words, plus 18 grammar gardens, 44 stories and 27 keigo drills. Lesson order is locked; in production.
Beyond the path: an optional test-prep pool of 873 more common JLPT-N3 words — vocabulary whose kanji arrive later on the path, available early in the upcoming Shugyō subscription.
