旅ことば: Japanese for Travel

Learn the Japanese you will really use on your trip, one stop at a time. Look words up and hear them offline once you land. Essentials, kana and N5 grammar are free.

旅ことば (tabi kotoba, "travel words") is a Japanese flashcard app for travelers. Words are sorted into Essentials, Common and Advanced lines by how often they are used, so the Japanese you will need most comes first, and JLPT N5–N3 words show their level. Learn one stop at a time, like riding a train down the line.

FREE

• Essentials Line: 111 stops, 1,527 cards — greetings, the airport, trains, hotels, ordering food, shopping, seeing a doctor...
• The first 2 stops of the Common Line as a free trial
• Kana: 9 hiragana and 6 katakana lessons with practice
• Numbers & counters: how dates, times and prices are read, plus a number-listening quiz
• Grammar from the very basics to JLPT N5: 43 lessons
• Offline dictionary: 22,639 common words with English meanings and audio

FULL COURSE (one-time in-app purchase, not a subscription)

• Common and Advanced Lines: 227 stops and 3,171 more cards, including JLPT N5–N3 vocabulary
• Grammar N4 to N1: 134 lessons that explain the difference between look-alike patterns
• Restore it on a new phone with the same Apple Account

EVERY CARD HAS

• Furigana, romaji, an example sentence with an English translation, and travel tips
• Recorded female and male voices (neural text-to-speech); alternate voices or slow them down

8 QUIZ TYPES Japanese → meaning, meaning → Japanese, kanji → reading, listen → word, listen → meaning, example → meaning, spell the reading, dictation. Missed words go to your Tricky list for review.

FULLY OFFLINE, NO SIGN-UP All cards, the dictionary, lessons and audio are built in, so it works in Japan without internet. No account, no ads, no data collected.

ALSO

• Stats: overall progress, progress by line and a study calendar
• Two-column layout on wide screens such as iPhone Duo
• Dark mode
• Export a backup of your progress

Sources: JMdict (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0), open-anki-jlpt-decks (MIT), Jonathan Waller's JLPT lists (CC BY); font Zen Old Mincho (SIL OFL 1.1); audio by Microsoft Azure neural voices. Example sentences, English meanings and notes were written by AI and checked against the readings.