Train, then work a shift
Three training days at the Moonview Inn take the support away step by step — romaji, then the written request — until you work four busy evenings with guests waiting on a board.
Learn the words by using them
Each place in the alley teaches forty JLPT N2 words through work you actually do: arranging cushions for guests, re-timing a dinner booking, answering the front desk phone. You hear the Japanese, you act on it, and Kon tells you how you did.
Every line spoken aloud
Furigana and meanings on tap
No account needed
Plays offline
Build a home with what you earn
Your wages furnish a little house: a kotatsu, lanterns, a garden that grows, and a cat or a Shiba to keep you company.
Light the alley
Finish a place and its lantern comes on. After the inn come the night market, a tea house, the station and the shrine — four short episodes each.
See it in play
Real screens from the current build, on a phone.
Pick a place on the map 
Hear a request, act on it in the room 
Work a busy evening shift 
Furnish your home with your wages
How to start
- Open the game — play in your browser, on a phone or a computer. Turn the sound on.
- Walk through the Entrance. Kon teaches you how to answer. You do not need to know any Japanese yet.
- Go to the inn (月見宿) on the map and work your first days.
- Tell us what you think on the feedback board — what confused you matters most.
Coming to Android and iPhone
Lantern Alley is in public beta as a web app. You can already add it to your home screen, and it runs offline. App store versions for Android and iPhone are planned; if you would like to test them before release, say so on the feedback board and leave your email in the private field.
Word data
Vocabulary is from OpenJLPT, built on JMdict/EDICT and KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG), Jonathan Waller's JLPT lists (tanos.co.uk) and Tatoeba, under CC BY-SA 4.0. The JLPT does not publish an official word list; "N2" here follows those community lists.