Kanji・Music・Landscape
Your Japanese Journey Starts Here
You don’t have to learn Japanese before you can enter Japanese. We’ll begin with the sounds of the language, your first conversation, and writing that appears as Japanese needs it.
Choose your entrance
Three quiet doors
Pick the path that matches where you are — then follow it forward.
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Route A
I’m completely new
Enter The Genkan → -
Route B
I already know hiragana and katakana
Begin Kanji Lesson 1 → -
Route C
I just want to explore
See places to explore →
The runway
The rooms
Rooms 0–39 are the first stretch.
Start Here gives you enough structure to begin. You will learn hiragana, words, and sentence patterns as Japanese needs them — not because a checklist says they must come next.
Soon you will meet Japanese that contains things you have not formally studied. That is intentional. Read what you can. Notice what you recognize. When you need help, Ask Chat-Sensei can sit with a reading, a word, or a sentence — then you continue.
The goal is not to finish studying Japanese. The goal is for more and more of it to light up.
- Room 0 — The Genkan
- Room 1 — 日本語が楽しい
- Room 2 — Begin seeing Japanese
- Room 3 — What’s your name?
- Room 4 — Reading names
- Room 5 — Japanese food is good
- Room 6 — This is sushi
- Room 7 — Four pictures
- Room 8 — これは ねこですか
- Room 9 — これは なんですか
- Room 10 — ねこが います
- Room 11 — いすが あります
- Room 12 — しずか
- Room 13 — ひかり
- Room 14 — はしに
- Room 15 — つりがね
- Room 16 — つくえ
- Room 17 — 濡れた橋
- Room 18 — すしを たべます
- Room 19 — いしを こえ
- Room 20 — かわ
- Room 21 — おと
- Room 22 — まど
- Room 23 — かねひとつ
- Room 24 — 竹の音
- Room 25 — 山の川
- Room 26 — げんき
- Room 27 — こんにちは
- Room 28 — へや
- Room 29 — しあわせ
- Room 30 — みず
- Room 31 — さくら
- Room 32 — そら
- Room 33 — くも
- Room 34 — ゆめ
- Room 35 — ねむる
- Room 36 — ふゆ
- Room 37 — 静かな部屋に
- Room 38 — よろしく
- Room 39
Explore
Walk the larger museum
These doors open onto material already living in KML.
Completely new? Begin at the first door.