The card packs — all free, no paid date
Every card is an image. You save it once and it works on the plane, in the subway, and with no signal at all. Nothing here is for sale: take the night set, the day set, or all 23 at once.
Every card is free, and there is no paid date. The Japanese on the cards has not been through a native-speaker register check, and nothing here will be sold before it has. If that ever changes, it goes in the changelog with a date first.
One email gets all 23 cards in one download. What you download is yours to keep, with no expiry, and corrected versions of those cards appear at the same download link, free.
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What each download holds
There is also Japan Complete — planned as Core plus shopping, stay and a recovery set. It is not finished: today it holds the same 13 cards as Core.
The 13 day-time situation cards, for your phone.
- 13 cards at 1080 × 1620 for the camera roll: food, shops, transport, stay and help
- Phone images only — there is no print sheet for these yet
- Works offline — they are images, not an app
- Corrections stay free and appear at your download link
Ten cards for the smallest rooms in Japan: yatai and yokocho.
- 10 cards for yatai stalls and yokocho bars: getting in, the cover charge, ordering, paying, leaving
- Decoder cards for yakitori, oden, Hakata ramen and the drinks menu
- One printable A4 sheet, grayscale, cut marks
- Free with an email — the link is on the next page
Every card on the site, one email, one download.
- All 23 cards at full resolution — the 13 day cards plus the 10 night cards
- The night-card print sheet (A4, grayscale) and a one-file ZIP
- Works offline — images, not an app
- Free, and what you download is yours to keep
Formats
Phone first, and one print sheet
Phone. Every card at 1080 × 1620, sized for a camera roll. Save the album once and it is offline from then on. There is no app to install and no account to make.
Print. The ten night cards come with an A4 sheet laid out 4-up with cut marks, in grayscale so no information is carried by colour. The day cards have no print sheet yet; printing a card from your photos app works.
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Or just read the free guides
Twenty-three situations, written out in full, no email required. The pack is the same answer in your pocket — not a better one.