Japan · 22 situations · Verified August 2026
Know what to say before you walk in.
The fear isn't the language. It's standing at the counter with a queue behind you, not knowing whether to pay now or later, sit or wait, or what the machine just asked you.
How it works
One card, three moments
Save it to your phone
The pack lands in your camera roll as images. It works on the plane, in the subway, and with no signal at all.
Read it before you go in
Thirty seconds outside the door. You will know the order of operations, the two questions coming, and the one thing not to do.
Hold it up if you're stuck
The top half is written for the person behind the counter, in Japanese, large enough to read across a counter.
Free, no email
Fourteen situations, written out in full
Each one is the complete answer with its card on the page at full size. Nothing is held back for the pack.
By category
Where you'll be standing
Packs
The Japan card packs
The same answers as images you can hold up at a counter with no signal, plus print sheets that fit a passport wallet.
Four cards, downloaded direct, no email.
- Four cards — the ramen ticket machine, the convenience store, the taxi, and “I don't understand”
- Full resolution, identical to the paid pack
- No email address, no account, no card details
- Straight download. There is no list to join and no sequence to unsubscribe from.
All 22 situation cards, phone and print.
- 22 situation cards at 1080 × 1620, for the camera roll
- Print sheets, 4-up with cut marks, US Letter and A4
- Works offline — they are images, not an app
- Corrections and updates free for 12 months — and the first hundred buyers keep every future Japan card, with no time limit
Not on sale yet — the register check is the gate
Everything in Core, plus shopping, stay, the recovery set and the plan guide.
- Everything in the Core pack
- Shopping and services — 10 cards, including takkyubin luggage forwarding
- Stay — 4 cards: hotel check-in, ryokan, capsule, luggage storage
- The recovery set — 6 cards for when it has already gone wrong
- The plan guide: your first three days in the order you'll hit them
Not on sale yet — the register check is the gate