An international adult beginning an ordinary morning in a Japanese neighbourhood
Indomura Japanese · IJ-0000

Your Japanese
Life Begins Here.

Learn Japanese. Understand the world around it.

From your first こんにちは to N1 and beyond, learn the language as it actually lives—in stations, homes, workplaces, shops, seasons, stories and the spaces between people.

Start from zero Find my path
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Your reason matters

Why are you learning Japanese?

There is no single doorway into Japanese. Some people arrive with a suitcase. Some with a job. Some with a new apartment key. Others simply want to learn the language properly. Your route can be different without becoming a different language.

International visitor navigating an everyday Japanese station
Short stay

Visiting Japan

Move, ask, order, understand and connect.

 International resident beginning everyday life at a Japanese apartment
New life

First 90 Days

Turn arrival into a working everyday routine.

 International resident talking with someone in a Japanese neighbourhood
Everyday belonging

Living in Japan

Language for neighbours, errands, systems and relationships.

 International professional in a natural discussion with Japanese colleagues
Professional life

Working with Japan

Hear what is said—and what the situation asks of you.

 Adult beginning serious Japanese study
Foundation → N1+

Learn Japanese Seriously

A complete path from zero to advanced independent Japanese.
A first Japanese greeting inside a neighbourhood bakery
03 · Your first Japanese

You don't need to wait
to enter the language.

おはようございます。
Ohayō gozaimasu.
Good morning.
Staffおはようございます。Ohayō gozaimasu.Good morning.
Youおはようございます。これをお願いします。Ohayō gozaimasu. Kore o onegaishimasu.Good morning. This one, please.
Staffはい、ありがとうございます。Hai, arigatō gozaimasu.Certainly. Thank you.
You are not expected to read Japanese yet. Listen first. Romanization shows the sound; English shows the meaning. The scripts will come gradually.
Writing materials suggesting the three Japanese writing systems
04 · Three writing worlds

One language.
Three scripts.

Japanese writing can look impossible when everything arrives at once. We introduce each system as a tool with a job—not as a wall you must climb before you are allowed to communicate.

あ
Hiraganaa · a sound-based script used throughout native Japanese words and grammar.
ア
Katakanaa · the same sound, often used for foreign words, names and emphasis.
日
Kanjisun / day · a character that carries meaning and can have different readings.
You do not need to learn all three before you begin speaking Japanese. We introduce them gradually, when they become useful.
05 · How Indomura teaches

Learn something
because you need it.

First enter the moment. Hear the Japanese. Notice what happened. Then reveal the reading, meaning, grammar and cultural logic underneath it.

これをお願いします。
Choose the support you need. Leave the rest hidden.
Customer using Japanese to request an item at a neighbourhood counter
06 · One phrase, many meanings
すみません。

It can open a question. Make space. Carry apology. Carry gratitude.

Vocabulary lists give you a translation. Life gives you a situation. Indomura teaches both.

Politely asking for directions at a Japanese station
Open a request

Excuse me—where is Shinjuku Station?

Politely making room to pass in a shared Japanese public space
Move through space

A gentle “excuse me” when you need to get past.

A small everyday act of help followed by appreciative acknowledgement
Receive kindness

Gratitude with an awareness that someone took trouble for you.

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Hear a real conversation

A few sentences are already a conversation.

Listen first. Then reveal only the support you need.

A short natural conversation in a neighbourhood Japanese shop
Staff
Good morning.
You
Good morning. This one, please.
Staff
Certainly. Thank you.
You
How much is it?
Staff
It's 450 yen.
You
Thank you.
Staff
Thank you very much.
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The complete Japanese journey

From first recognition
to independent thought.

The destination is not a certificate. It is the ability to live, read, listen, work and think with increasing independence in Japanese. JLPT preparation sits inside that larger journey.

Beginning Japanese study with focused simplicity
Advanced learner reading substantial Japanese material
FoundationSound, script, first interactions. N5Basic everyday Japanese. N4Build range and confidence. N3Bridge into real-world Japanese. N2Complex reading and listening. N1Advanced nuance and comprehension. BeyondJapanese without an exam ceiling.
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Japanese for the life you're living

Japanese for Tuesday morning,
not someday.

Sometimes you do not want another chapter. You need enough Japanese to handle the next real thing in front of you. Your structured course keeps progressing; practical routes bring the right language forward when life needs it.

07:45

The train changes platforms.

Hear an announcement. Ask staff. Confirm where to go.

Nan-bansen desu ka?Which platform is it?
10:30

A colleague asks you to confirm something.

Clarify, check understanding and respond naturally.

Kakunin shimasu.I'll check.
13:10

You order lunch.

Choose, ask, modify and pay without rehearsing a speech.

Kore o onegaishimasu.This one, please.
18:20

You need a pharmacy or clinic.

Explain a simple problem and understand the next step.

Chotto itai desu.It hurts a little.
19:05

The delivery arrives.

Japanese comes to your own front door.

Takuhai-bin desu.Delivery.
At home in Japan
宅配便です。　—　はい、今行きます。
Takuhai-bin desu. — Hai, ima ikimasu.Delivery. — Yes, I'm coming now.
Explore all practical journeys & missions
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Master the language

Build every part
of Japanese.

Progress is strongest when listening, speaking, reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary, kanji and pronunciation keep meeting each other.

Listening to everyday Japanese in a commuter train
Listening ·
Relaxed everyday conversation in Japanese
Speaking · Fluency begins before perfection.
ListeningHear words inside natural sound. SpeakingTurn knowledge into interaction. ReadingFrom signs to serious texts. WritingForm, expression and composition. KanjiMeaning, form and recurring patterns. GrammarSee how Japanese builds thought. VocabularyWords connected to situations. PronunciationRhythm, sound and intelligibility.
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Language doesn't live alone

Every word arrives
from somewhere.

Food, seasons, objects, clothing, craft, relationships and contemporary life give Japanese its texture. We open those windows when they help you understand the language—not as decoration.

An ordinary shared Japanese meal
AT THE TABLE

Words you can taste.

Food, manners and memory give everyday Japanese another texture.

Hands of a Japanese craftsperson working with clay
MADE BY HAND

Words shaped by hands.

Craft carries the vocabulary of material, process, place and patience.

Everyday Japanese neighbourhood during the rainy season
THROUGH THE YEAR

When the season changes the language.

Weather and seasonal life change what people notice, say and share.

Between the words
Through the year
At the table
Made by hand
Japan today
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Japanese through Japan

Learn the country
through the language.

The homepage only opens the door. As your Japanese grows, history, regions, food, seasons, craft and contemporary life become reading and listening material—not decorative trivia beside the course.

Historic and contemporary architecture coexisting in everyday Japan
Through time

Japan, Then & Now

See how the past remains visible inside contemporary life.

 Everyday regional Japan around a local railway
Where in Japan?

One language. Many places.

Regional landscapes, lives, words and ways of doing things.
Everyday JapanThe ordinary systems and habits around the language. Through the YearSeasonal words, weather, rituals and changing daily life. At the TableFood as language, etiquette, memory and region. Made by HandMaterials, craft vocabulary and living traditions. Festivals & RitualsLanguage inside shared time, place and community. Japan TodayWork, technology, society and contemporary expression.
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From your first word to your own voice

Japanese gradually
becomes yours.

The milestones become less visible as you improve. At first you remember your first greeting. Later, you realize you have just solved a problem, followed a meeting or read something difficult without translating every line.

01First greetingJapanese is no longer silent.
02First purchaseA phrase becomes independence.
03Real conversationYou respond instead of rehearsing.
04Problem solvedThe language begins carrying your life.
05Your own voiceYou can say what you actually mean.

The goal is not to sound like a textbook. It is to become increasingly able to live, think and connect through Japanese.

Your foundation is growing

Time has entered
your Japanese.

You can now say what something is and was, ask when, tell the time, describe a span, name the days of the week, and move naturally between yesterday, today and tomorrow.

These are not isolated grammar points. Together they form the language of appointments, workdays, plans, memories and ordinary schedules.

Foundation · 01 です・じゃありません It Is. It Isn't. State what something is — and what it is not. Foundation · 02 でした・じゃありませんでした It Was. It Wasn't. Move a simple statement into the past. Foundation · 03 でしたか Was It? Turn the past into a question. Foundation · 04 いつですか When Is It? Ask when something happens. Foundation · 05 何時ですか What Time Is It? Find the hour. Foundation · 06 何時何分ですか Hours & Minutes Tell time more precisely. Foundation · 07 半・午前・午後 Half Past, AM & PM Make clock time useful in real schedules. Foundation · 08 から・まで From & Until Give time a beginning and an end. Foundation · 09 月曜日〜日曜日 Days of the Week Give your schedule seven familiar names. Foundation · 10 今日・明日・昨日 Today, Tomorrow & Yesterday Let time move through ordinary life.

A calendar is really a collection of human hopes disguised as boxes. Some contain meetings. Occasionally one contains Sunday.

Continue the Foundation →
An international adult choosing a path through an ordinary Japanese neighbourhood
14 · Find your starting point

Where are you
starting from?

Choose the situation that feels closest to your life. You can change routes later. Your progress still belongs to one Japanese journey.

I am starting from zero I am visiting Japan I just arrived I live in Japan I work with Japan I am preparing for JLPT
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Explore the learning world

The homepage is the entrance.
Your learning home goes deeper.

Follow a level, strengthen a skill, prepare for JLPT, solve a practical need, or enter Japan through the language. The detailed Learning Gateway brings journeys, missions and focused study together without duplicating the homepage.

Learn Japanese

FoundationN5N4N3N2N1Beyond N1

Use Japanese

First 90 DaysTravellerLiving in JapanBusiness & WorkEmergencyJLPT Preparation

Japanese Through Japan

Everyday JapanSeasonsFestivals & RitualsHistoryRegionsCraftJapan Today
Open the Learning Gateway
A quiet ordinary Japanese residential street at blue hour
16 · Continue your journey
また明日。

You do not have to understand Japan today. Learn one phrase. Notice one thing. Return tomorrow. A language becomes part of your life slowly—and then, one day, you realize it already has.

また明日。 Mata ashita. See you tomorrow · Hear it
Indomura Japanese · Learn Japanese Through JapanYour Japanese Life Begins Here
Numbers have entered the real world

Time, people and things
can now be counted.

You can give dates and years, talk about age, count people, and choose useful counters for general things, flat objects, long objects, small objects, machines and vehicles.

The important change is not that you memorised more numbers. Japanese has started teaching you to notice what kind of thing is standing in front of the number.

Foundation · 11月・日Dates in JapaneseGive the calendar a month and a day. Foundation · 12年Years in JapanesePut events inside a year. Foundation · 13歳Age in JapaneseLet years belong to a person. Foundation · 14人Counting PeopleCount the people inside everyday life. Foundation · 15つCounting General ThingsA practical native counting system from one to ten. Foundation · 16枚Flat & Thin ThingsTickets, paper, photographs and more. Foundation · 17本Long ThingsHear ほん become ぼん and ぽん. Foundation · 18個Small ObjectsCount compact everyday things. Foundation · 19台Machines & VehiclesCars, bicycles, computers and equipment. Foundation · 20つ・人・枚・本・個・台Choosing the CounterBring the counter system together in one everyday decision map.

You began by learning numbers. Somewhere along the way, Japanese taught you to notice people, shapes, objects and the small architecture of ordinary life.

Complete this Foundation milestone →
Milestone 90 · Foundation integration

Japanese has begun
to move.

The first part of Foundation taught you to recognise sounds, words, time, numbers and the small structures around everyday life. Lessons 71–90 make a different change: verbs begin carrying your day. You can say what you do, do not do, did, where and when you act, how you travel, who comes with you, how often, how long, why, what you want, what you have experienced, what is happening now—and finally ask another person to act.

90Foundation pages reached
20New pages integrated here
1Japanese journey
Different international learners moving naturally through contemporary Japan
M90
One language · many lives

Choose the reason
you need Japanese.

A traveller, a new resident, an engineer, a student and an N1 candidate should not be forced through identical navigation. They can enter from different doors while sharing the same canonical Japanese underneath.

Start from zeroFoundation Japanese

Build the language carefully from its first sounds and sentences.

 Serious learnerJLPT · N5 → N1

A complete academic road toward advanced Japanese.

 Short stay15 Days in Japan

Arrival, transport, food, shopping, help and human encounters.

 New residentYour First 90 Days

Turn unfamiliar systems into an increasingly familiar daily life.

 Long-term lifeLiving in Japan

Neighbourhood, health, home, city hall, banking and belonging.

 ProfessionalWorking with Japan

Language, roles, workplace context and professional relationships.

 Build a skillListening · Speaking · Reading

Return to the language through the skill you need most.

 Learn through the countryJapanese Through Japan

Culture, history, seasons, food, regions, craft and Japan today.
Quiet details of ordinary Japanese material culture
Japanese does not live alone

Culture is not a chapter
after language.

It is inside the language: in what is said, what is softened, what is left unsaid, how space is shared, how seasons enter conversation, how food carries memory, and how ordinary courtesy keeps millions of small encounters moving.

Lessons 71–90 · now integrated

From your first verb
to your first request.

This is the newest completed Foundation arc. For consultants and milestone review, every page is visible below. For learners, the sequence tells a simpler story: Japanese is becoming capable of carrying an ordinary day.

IJ-0071 · FoundationますYour First Japanese VerbsOpen canonical lesson → IJ-0072 · FoundationませんVerb NegativeOpen canonical lesson → IJ-0073 · Foundation〜ますかAsking About ActionsOpen canonical lesson → IJ-0074 · Foundation〜ましたVerb PastOpen canonical lesson → IJ-0075 · Foundation〜ませんでしたPast NegativeOpen canonical lesson → IJ-0076 · FoundationをObject + を + VerbOpen canonical lesson → IJ-0077 · FoundationでPlaces of ActionOpen canonical lesson → IJ-0078 · FoundationにTime + に + ActionOpen canonical lesson → IJ-0079 · FoundationへDestination + へOpen canonical lesson → IJ-0080 · FoundationでTransportation + でOpen canonical lesson → IJ-0081 · FoundationとCompanion + とOpen canonical lesson → IJ-0082 · Foundationいつも・よくHow Often?Open canonical lesson → IJ-0083 · FoundationどのくらいHow Long?Open canonical lesson → IJ-0084 · Foundationから・までFrom / UntilOpen canonical lesson → IJ-0085 · Foundation〜からBecause · ReasonsOpen canonical lesson → IJ-0086 · Foundation〜たいですWant to DoOpen canonical lesson → IJ-0087 · Foundation〜たことがありますHave You Ever?Open canonical lesson → IJ-0088 · Foundation〜て、〜And Then · Connecting ActionsOpen canonical lesson → IJ-0089 · Foundation〜ていますWhat Are You Doing?Open canonical lesson → IJ-0090 · Foundation〜てくださいPlease Do ThisOpen canonical lesson →
Rainy early-evening everyday Japanese neighbourhood near a station
Japan between the landmarks

Most of Japan happens
on an ordinary Tuesday.

A wet station platform. A convenience store after work. A bicycle under an umbrella. A form at city hall. Someone saying すみません before asking for help. This is the Japan the language must prepare you to enter.

The complete academic road

Foundation is the beginning.
Not the ceiling.

Indomura Japanese is being built as one continuous system: from someone who knows nothing about Japanese or Japan to the learner preparing for advanced JLPT study and life beyond the examination.

ZeroOrientation & first contact
FoundationCore structure & everyday Japanese
N5Beginner mastery
N4Independent everyday range
N3Intermediate life & reading
N2Advanced study & work
N1+N1 and beyond the test
An international resident walking home through an ordinary Japanese neighbourhood at blue hour
Where the project is now

Japan will not become simple.
It will become familiar.

Foundation has reached its 90-page milestone. The next gate is integration, review and QA: making sure navigation, audio, reading support, dialogue, mobile behaviour and journey reuse work as one platform before the next production block begins.