かなみちKanamichiLearn to read Japanese, one station at a time.
Kanamichi takes you from your first hiragana to reading real Japanese: short passages set along a journey across Japan, the grammar each one needs, spaced-repetition vocabulary, and guided conversations you can speak out loud.
How it works
Kana school
Meet every hiragana and katakana, hear it, say it, then read real words that use only what you know.
The journey
Thirty stations from Tokyo to Shiretoko, ten short passages each, with furigana you can switch off as the kanji stick. Read a passage, check your reading, earn the stamp.
Grammar in place
Particles, counters, numbers and sentence endings, each introduced just before the passage that uses it.
Vocabulary that sticks
Every word you meet lands in a spaced-repetition deck. Add ready-made JLPT N5, N4 and Core 1000 decks, or your own words.
Guided conversations
Talk with a character at each station, step by step, speaking or typing. The AI listens, corrects gently, and keeps the conversation on track.
Spirits and the arena
Hatch a team of companions that grows as you learn, then send them into friendly battles of up to three a side where every move is a quiz.
Use it on your phone, tablet or computer — sign in and your progress follows you.
Plans
Free
- All kana lessons
- Tokyo · ten passages
- Numbers, counters and the first particles
- One spirit, and a taste of Sensei
Journey
- All 30 stations
- Every grammar lesson and the sentence builder
- Phrase lessons — the first is free
- All vocabulary decks, your own words, your own daily count
- Eggs, gifts and the whole collection
Journey + AI Speech
- Sensei — a one-on-one teacher you talk to, who hears your sounds and corrects you as you go
- AI conversations at every station
- Accent grader: speak any passage line and see each kana colored by how it sounded
- A monthly allowance, measured by use — the meter in Settings shows what's left