Updates
This quiz keeps growing, quietly. Every new region, every mended flaw is recorded here as it happens.
v1.10.0
Five new areas added
Added five areas—Nagasaki City, Nara City, Kochi (Tosa), Izumo, and Nikko. Each area includes three tracks from nationwide basics to super-maniac questions, four articles in each language, and 31 glossary entries in each language.
v1.9.0
Added the Takamatsu–Sanuki Area quiz in Kagawa Prefecture
The new Takamatsu–Sanuki Area follows Takamatsu Castle, Ritsurin Garden, Yashima, the Seto Inland Sea islands, Sanuki udon, and local festivals. It includes three tracks from nationwide basics to super-maniac questions, four articles in each language, and 34 glossary entries in each language.
Added the Aomori–Nebuta Area quiz in Aomori Prefecture
The new Aomori–Nebuta Area explores the Aomori Nebuta Festival, haneto dancers, nebuta artisans, Nebuta Museum Wa Rasse, market culture, and local food. It includes three tracks, five articles in each language, and 32 glossary entries in each language.
Added the Himeji Area quiz in Hyogo Prefecture
The new Himeji Area follows Himeji Castle’s architecture and defenses, its World Heritage value, Shoshazan Engyoji, local food, and regional culture. It includes three tracks, four articles in each language, and 35 glossary entries in each language.
Added the Ise–Shima Area quiz in Mie Prefecture
The new Ise–Shima Area follows Ise Jingu and the Shikinen Sengu, Oharai-machi and Ise udon, Ago Bay and pearls, ama culture, and Shima’s landscapes. It includes three tracks, five articles in each language, and 32 glossary entries in each language.
v1.8.0
Added the Kamakura Area quiz in Kanagawa Prefecture
The new Kamakura Area follows Tsurugaoka Hachimangu, the Great Buddha, temples and passes, Enoden, and the shore. Its five-tier pools feed three tracks—beginner, standard, and mania—plus four articles per language and 30 glossary entries per language.
Added the Shonan Area quiz in Kanagawa Prefecture
The new Shonan Area connects Enoshima, Enoshima Shrine, the coast, local festivals, and first-party material from Fujisawa, Chigasaki, Hiratsuka, Oiso, and Samukawa. It includes three tracks, four articles per language, and 30 glossary entries per language.
Added the Zushi–Hayama Area quiz in Kanagawa Prefecture
The new Zushi–Hayama Area follows Nagoe Kiridoshi, Wakaejima, the Ikego archaeological sites, Zushi Beach, and Hayama’s cultural properties and shores. It includes three tracks, four articles per language, and 30 glossary entries per language.
Added the Yokosuka Area quiz in Kanagawa Prefecture
The new Yokosuka Area follows the Yokosuka Iron Works, Uraga, Sarushima, Verny Park, Mikasa Park, and navy curry through the city’s port and naval memory. It includes three tracks, four articles per language, and 30 glossary entries per language.
v1.7.0
Added the Kumamoto City Area quiz in Kumamoto Prefecture
The new Kumamoto City Area covers Kumamoto Castle, the Suizenji-Ezu Lake springs, trams, local food, disaster preparedness, and recovery. It includes three tracks from nationwide basics to super-maniac, four articles per language, and thirty glossary entries per language.
Added the Amakusa Area quiz in Kumamoto Prefecture
The new Amakusa Area covers island geography, Sakitsu's faith landscape, wild dolphins, Ushibuka Haiya-bushi, Takahama ware, and Goshoura fossils with sources. It includes three tracks, four articles per language, and thirty glossary entries per language.
Added the Aso Area quiz in Kumamoto Prefecture
The new Aso Area covers the caldera, grassland maintenance, volcanic preparedness, springs, farming, Aso Shrine, and farming rites. It includes three tracks, four articles per language, and thirty glossary entries per language.
v1.6.0
Added the Hida Takayama Area quiz from Gifu Prefecture
We've added the Hida Takayama Area quiz covering the Takayama Festival, historic streets, the Miyagawa River, Hida Takumi craftsmanship, Takayama Jin'ya, Hida Kokubunji, and Shirakawa-go's gassho villages. It includes three tracks from nationwide basics to oni-maniac questions, seven articles in each language, and 55 glossary entries in each language.
v1.5.0
Added the Sapporo Area quiz from Hokkaido
We've added the Sapporo Area quiz covering its street grid, Odori Park, the Snow Festival, Sapporo Agricultural College, the Toyohira River, Jozankei, food, and seasonal events. It includes three tracks from nationwide basics to ultra-maniac questions, four articles in each language, and 31 glossary entries in each language.
v1.4.0
Added the Kichijoji Area quiz from Tokyo
We've added a Kichijoji Area quiz covering Inokashira's waterside, the origin of Kichijoji Village, shopping streets and lanes, and local learning and culture. It includes three tracks from nationwide basics to ultra-maniac questions, four explanatory articles, and 30 glossary entries in each language.
v1.3.0
Added the Akihabara quiz from Tokyo
We've added an Akihabara quiz covering the making of Electric Town, Manseibashi's railway heritage, Kanda Myojin, and the district's place-name and market history. Play three tracks from nationwide basics to oni-maniac questions.
v1.2.0
Added the Asakusa quiz from Tokyo
We've added an Asakusa quiz covering Senso-ji, Sanja Matsuri, Nakamise, the Sumida River, and downtown culture. Play three tracks from nationwide basics to oni-maniac questions.
v1.1.0
Added three new Ibaraki quizzes: Mito & Northern Ibaraki, Tsukuba & Kashima Coast, and a Place-Name Challenge
We've added two new area quizzes covering Ibaraki Prefecture — Mito & Northern Ibaraki (Kairakuen, Mito Komon, Hitachi Mine) and Tsukuba & Kashima Coast (Tsukuba Science City, Kashima Jingu) — plus a shared Place-Name Reading Challenge spinoff featuring western Ibaraki's hardest-to-read locality names, reachable from either area's hub.
v1.0.0
We launched this updates page
We'll use this page to share fixes we find through our own playtesting, plus new regions and features as they ship.
Added four new Nagano-area quizzes: Suwa, Matsumoto-Azumino, Karuizawa, and Nagano City
We've added four new local quizzes covering Suwa, Matsumoto-Azumino, Karuizawa, and Nagano City. Expect everything from well-known local facts to the occasional surprising detail.