Free Japanese learning worksheets in every language of the world.

Printable worksheets for hiragana, katakana, kanji and grammar. Open one, press print. No signup, no ads, free to copy under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Start at A1 → See the whole course

512 numbered units, levels A to L · no account, no ads, nothing to install

First time here? Three steps.

Find your starting point

The course runs from A to L. If Japanese writing is completely new to you, begin at the beginning — you do not need to know anything at all. If you already read kana, skip ahead. Nothing is locked.
Print the sheet — or just use it on screen

Every unit opens as one A4 page in your browser. Press the print button at the top (or Ctrl/Cmd + P) and choose your printer, or “Save as PDF” to keep it. There is no download step and no file to sign up for.
Tick it off and carry on

On the course page you can tick each unit you finish. The ticks are kept in your own browser — no account, nothing sent anywhere — and the button at the top of this page then says Continue at your next unit.

Which one is me?

Pick the line that sounds like you.

A1 I am starting from zero You cannot read あ or ア yet. Start with hiragana — the 46 basic sounds. Two to three weeks. B1 I can read hiragana Katakana next — the same 46 sounds, used for foreign words and names. C1 I can read both kana — give me kanji Start with the 80 JLPT N5 kanji, in 13 sets that belong together. ? I have no idea what N5 or N1 means A one-page explanation of the five JLPT levels and roughly how long each takes.

What is in here

Hiragana

50 worksheets — trace, recognize, write.

The first alphabet. Everything in Japanese can be written in it.

Katakana

50 worksheets — trace, recognize, write.

The same sounds, angular. Used for foreign words: コーヒー, パン.

Kanji

2184 worksheets — N5 to N1, with stroke order, on/kun and example words.

Characters that carry meaning. Grouped into sets you can actually use.

Grammar

521 worksheets — N5 to N1, each with the formation rule and example sentences.

How the words join up. One pattern per block, with real sentences.

Reading

20 N5 passages, 65 to 200 characters, with furigana, questions and answers.

Where the pieces meet. Only the 80 N5 kanji, so nothing needs a dictionary.

Vocabulary

600 JLPT N5 words in 30 sets — family, the clock, food, verbs, adjectives — each a two-page sheet: study, then recall from memory.

The words the kanji are used in. Every word in exactly one set, so all thirty sheets is the whole list once.

🖨 Or print a whole script in one go — opens in your browser, no signup:

Hiragana ×50 Katakana ×50 Kanji ×80 Grammar ×20

The whole course, on one ladder

Twelve levels, A to L. Every unit is one printable sheet, so you always know where you are — not “somewhere in N3”, but G14.

A Hiragana Row by row: trace it, match it, write it from memory 50 units B Katakana The same 46 sounds in the angular script, same rhythm 50 units C JLPT N5 kanji 80 kanji in 13 sets you can actually use 16 units D JLPT N5 grammar Particles, です・ます, and the て-form 5 units E JLPT N4 kanji 158 kanji: colours, food, body, work, town 23 units F JLPT N4 grammar Plain form, potential, volitional, giving and receiving 12 units G JLPT N3 kanji 354 kanji in 34 sets you can actually use 45 units H JLPT N3 grammar 136 patterns grouped by what they do 29 units I JLPT N2 kanji 361 kanji in study order, ten per unit 48 units J JLPT N2 grammar 150 patterns, six per unit 33 units K JLPT N1 kanji 1,231 kanji in study order, ten per unit 164 units L JLPT N1 grammar 165 patterns, six per unit 37 units

Open the course and tick off what you have done →

This is what you print

Unit C1, the ten number kanji, on one A4 page. Stroke order, readings, real words, and room to write. Live preview of the actual sheet — nothing to download first.

Print this sheet → All 13 N5 kanji sets

Every one of the 512 units prints like this. No account, no watermark, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Teaching Japanese? Take all of it.

Not “free to view”. The licence is CC BY-SA 4.0, which means you may do all of this without asking us:

Print a class set

Thirty copies, every week, for as many classes as you like. No per-seat licence, no account for your students, nothing for them to sign up to.

Use them in paid lessons

Private tutoring, a language school, a paid course — commercial use is allowed. Keep the credit line at the foot of the page.

Change them

Cut a set down, reorder it, put it in your own handout. Share what you make under the same licence and it is yours to hand out.

Nothing to install or wait for

Every sheet is one A4 page that opens in a browser. Ctrl/Cmd + P and it is on the printer, or Save as PDF for the class group.

Notes for teachers → The whole course, 512 units

Using these with a class? Tell us what is missing — teachers are how we find out which sheets are wrong.

Questions people ask first

Do I need an account?: No. There is nothing to sign up for, no email box, and no paid tier waiting further down. Every sheet on the site opens straight away.
Is it really free? What is the catch?: It is free and there are no ads. Everything is published under CC BY-SA 4.0, so you may copy it, print it and hand it out.
Can I use these with my class?: Yes — print as many copies as you need, for any number of students, including in paid lessons. Keep the credit line at the bottom of the page. Notes for teachers →
I cannot read any Japanese yet.: That is the intended starting point. Level A assumes nothing: you trace each character, then recognise it, then write it from memory.
How long does a sheet take?: Ten to twenty minutes. One a day is a realistic pace, and finishing one finishes a unit — that is the whole design.
Do the instructions come in my language?: The worksheet instructions switch between 50 languages with the menu at the top of each sheet — the Japanese itself stays as it is. See the list →

New to Japanese? Start here

Longer reading, for when you want the whole picture rather than a sheet.

JLPT N5 in 12 weeks

The plan that walks every sheet on this site in order, 30 minutes a day.

JLPT N4 in 16 weeks

For after N5: 158 kanji, 50 patterns, 800 words, 20 real texts.

JLPT N3 in 24 weeks

For after N4: 354 kanji, 136 patterns, 1,200 words, unspaced texts.

Japaneseness Travel — Tokyo

A hand-written database of central Tokyo and one-day itineraries built on it. English and Japanese.

How to learn Japanese

The whole route from zero to N1, with honest timelines.

How to learn hiragana

A 7-day plan, and the pairs everyone confuses.

Hiragana chart

All 46 characters with romaji, dakuten and yōon.

Katakana chart

The same, for loanwords and foreign names.

Stroke order rules

Eight rules, the real exceptions, and why it matters.

The hiragana course as a book

Kindle and paperback, with answer keys. Every sheet in it is free here.

How to learn kanji

Sets, not lists; the hand, not the eye; two years, honestly.

Every JLPT level we cover

Level	Kanji	Grammar
JLPT N5	80 kanji worksheets →	20 grammar worksheets →
JLPT N4	158 kanji worksheets →	50 grammar worksheets →
JLPT N3	354 kanji worksheets →	136 grammar worksheets →
JLPT N2	361 kanji worksheets →	150 grammar worksheets →
JLPT N1	1231 kanji worksheets →	165 grammar worksheets →

What each JLPT level means →

Available in your students' language

Same content, native instructions.

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🌐 All 50 Tier 1 languages accessible — site UI in your language, more worksheets coming.

Featured kanji

外

outside

そと。物の外部。

on ガイ, ゲ

kun そと, ほか

Full detail page →

Today's featured kanji rotates daily across all 80 N5 kanji. Browse the full list.

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Why we built this

Japanese-learning materials in English are abundant. Materials in Yorùbá or Bahasa Indonesia? Almost zero. Japaneseness removes that gap with print-ready PDFs, no signup wall, fully open under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full story →