Wagotabi is your daily companion for learning Japanese from scratch, at your own pace, and with maximum immersion. Learn to read, write, and understand Japanese in context, while retaining Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Use your knowledge directly in context, by interacting with locals, and using Japanese in daily situations.
Discover real Japanese cities and culture while going on a quest to become a Japanese Grand Master.
Designed in close collaboration with +300 Japanese language experts, official Japanese prefecture tourist associations and thousands of early testers, Wagotabi provides you with an immersive approach to language learning following a graded reader approach. Words and grammar points are introduced according to the JLPT standard, beginning with N5.
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◆ START from zero: the game is beginner friendly: no initial Japanese knowledge needed. Concepts are introduced step by step and used right away in-game. Non-beginners will progress faster and equally enjoy the game.
◆ JOURNEY in Japan: Explore real cities, learn to introduce yourself, order food, ask your way to the locals and unravel hidden secrets!
◆ COLLECT new words, Kana, Kanji and get detailed explanations on grammar patterns and conjugation step-by-step. No more overwhelming Kana / Kanji / vocabulary lists.
◆ CHALLENGE Japanese Grand Masters in their castle to earn their respect!
◆ COMPETE with fellow learners on Kana and Kanji minigames and post your top scores to the leaderboard!
◆ PERSONALIZE your learning experience: benefit from our SRS tool pin-pointing your weaknesses, create your own avatar, set the game difficulty. This is your Japanese journey.
◆ ENJOY a fully ad-free experience without in-app purchase, the game can be entirely played offline!
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(Non-exhaustive) list of features :
Interactive dictionary (with illustrations, tags etc.), clear grammar explanation, interactive tooltips, fully voiced in Japanese, SRS powered smart tests, interactions with environment, quests, 2 minigames (Kana and Kanji), boss fights, Hiragana / Katakana / Kanji stroke order and calligraphy, Kanjidex, resembling Kanji, conjugation, cloud save, advanced progress tracking tools …
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The game is in constant development, with regular updates adding new content.
Currently available content:
+385 carefully selected words and grammar points
+185 Kanji
+560 example sentences
+2450 voiced Japanese dialogues
+350 unique NPCs in game
All words / grammar are used extensively and in context for better retention
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What our early testers are saying about Wagotabi:
"You guys are a blessing to bring this to the learning market!"
"I have been using some of the App's examples for my lessons and my students are responding to them really well."
"I don't have the budget to travel to Japan, however I'm totally immersed in this game, learning effectively and witnessing my progress daily."
"Thanks to this app, my kids are now self-motivated to learn Japanese and reconnect with their roots. This concept is so Kawaii!“
"I'm preparing a trip to Japan and will definitely go check these spots I already visited in-game."
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Great app but doesn’t complete support the keyboard
drprotean
I really this app, as I have learned a lot of japanese with it. It really forces you learn before you can progress. The recent update seems to want to force you to use the flick keyboard which is fine for some people but I don’t like it. I wish there was an option to disable it. Also it would be nice if there was full keyboard support, as the game still requires you to touch the screen or use a game controller to advance to the next screen when learning, smart test or doing the boss fights. You can’t even select the smart test without touching the screen or using a controller. Maybe use arrow keys to select the menu items or let me use the virtual mouse from the keyboard.edit: Thank you for responding. Creating a virtual mouse for the keyboard is an option, but not really the best option. I hope that one day I can play the game completely from a keyboard without having to use a game pad or a virtual mouse. Also, is there a way to delete individual saves? sometimes I want to start over to really reinforce the learning. Thank you.
Developer Response
Thanks a lot for your review and playing Wagotabi!The current last level introduces indeed the Flick Keyboard. It was a design choice as many players wanted to learn how to use it and we also found it interesting in order to practice and illustrate the dakuten and kana group practice あいうえお, かきくけこ, etc.The flick keyboard will not be compulsory later in the game, except in very particular situations (for instance in a small puzzle / challenge). A switch button will be available most of the time to switch between a qwerty / and flick input.Regarding the full keyboard / game controller support, we are working on it little by little. Your suggestion to use arrow keys to move the virtual mouse is indeed interesting and we will work on it for a future update, thanks for notify it!We are glad that Wagotabi helped you already learn a lot of Japanese. Please tell people around you about Wagotabi, this helps us a lot!
Just do it
Nox_Cheshire
This is one of the first Japanese learning games that I find myself actually WANTING to stay with. The learning aspect feels very smooth, and I adore the fact that it doesn’t bring in romanji as its starting learner of the Japanese alphabet/vocab like so many other apps do, and instead balances moving in Japanese as you progress through the game and lessons the amount of English that is used in conversation. That I feel like is truly learning by immersing yourself into the language. It’s a cute game that has a feeling almost similar to Pokémon where you battle by learning more Japanese, collect Kanji in your Kanjidex, and travel all across the lands of Japan. It’s really neat that it makes itself unique by having the world exploration mimicking the actual locations of Japan through the game play and allows its players to take note of those real locations and maybe even pique further curiosity and excitement into wanting to travel to Japan to visit those exact locations. Keep going developers and all those who have brought this creation to life! Ya’ll are doing amazing!!
Developer Response
Thank you so much for the amazing review! You exactly understood our motivation and inspirations to create Wagotabi and seem to be enjoying the adventure!
By far the best way to learn
Gabe7797
THEY MUST MAKE THIS TYPE OF GAME FOR ALL LANGUAGES! I have been studying Japanese for 6 months everyday. I wish I just started with this… this is by far more interesting and challenging than other apps. I have tried everything trust me. I have spent $500+ on apps and books… I’ve been looking for something like this to incorporate in my learning, but I wish I started this in the beginning. One of the hardest things for me to learn is not the vocabulary but the sentence structures and particles. English speaking people should start with it and this game does that! I am really beating myself up that I just went to Reddit where a user said they used this app and it dramatically helped them. Just checked it out today and I have not been able to put the game down for hours. $6 is very worth everything… no ads, no subscription, it feels like a classic Pokémon game and I can’t get enough.
Developer Response
Thank you!It took us years to experiment while developing Wagotabi and finding the right balance between learning, fun and immersion!We are regularly adding new towns and learning content. Our vision is to add much more content step by step. First covering N5 and then above.Please tell people around you about Wagotabi, this helps us a lot!
New breakthrough in learning
Nickshark
I think these developers clearly know what they are doing. The system they have in place for learning a very difficult language challenges you that traditional testing and online AI apps usually don’t, it offers opportunity for slight immersion learning while having key aspects of memory retention tied to game progression. This effectively induces a tighter memory as you need to know what you remember to efficiently get through the game. The psychology of this tricks your brain to remember things faster as it sees it as a necessity to get a task done, the dopamine is insane when you start to play this game, definitely a top tool when it comes to learning Japanese efficiently. If I could have donated all the money I spent on migaku and other tools into this app for more immersion and lessons I would. Please continue to develop this app for higher difficult Japanese lessons, or make other spin off games/DLC about Japan that we can pay for so we can continue to support you) that focus on learning Japanese for a deeper content learning/immersion. Making other language games in this style would also be appreciated, but I truly believe you have found your niche with Japanese language and to keep the quality of this game consistent it would be best to keep resources to this project for a while longer. In terms of monetary gain and the way cultural attraction to Japan is at an all time high right now; it might be in your best interest to keep it Japanese for larger profit potential. The quality is very high with this one. Keep at it I am proud of you Wagotabi team.
Developer Response
Thank you!It took us years to experiment while developing Wagotabi and finding the right balance between learning, fun and immersion!We are regularly adding new towns and learning content. Our vision is to add much more content step by step. First covering N5 and then above.Please tell people around you about Wagotabi, this helps us a lot!
Bug and localization fixes
Version 1.00.0406
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Information
Seller
WAGOTABI LIMITED
Size
174.4 MB
Category
Education
Compatibility
Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
Apple Vision Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Languages
English and 11 more
English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese