ChiboStudio makes small apps that help you learn. Lantern Alley teaches you Japanese while you run a cozy inn: you hear real Japanese, act on it, and remember the words because you used them.
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Learn Japanese words by using them at a cozy inn.
Free beta · Play nowIn the works.
Coming soonA Japanese-learning game with a bit of fun. Every guest at the inn speaks Japanese. Listen, understand, do the job, and Kon the fox tells you how you did. Words go up to JLPT N2, 40 per place. Free while in beta.
You start with romaji and helpers. Over three training days the support fades until you read the real Japanese request yourself.
The fun part: guests wait on the board and the clock runs. Understand what each guest asks in Japanese, pick the right job, and finish before time runs out.
Your reward for learning: wages to furnish a little house with a kotatsu, lanterns, a garden that grows, and a cat or a Shiba.
Your wages furnish the rooms too. Swap the scene, decorate, and visit your pets any time.
ChiboStudio is a one-person studio. Feedback from players shapes what gets built next.
Each Japanese word is learned through a job at the inn, not a flashcard.
Works in your browser and offline, so it fits on your commute.
A public feedback board where players tell me what to fix and add.
Start learning Japanese in a minute. It's free.