Japanese Flash Cards Starter Box: Kana + N5 Words in 8 Pocket Decks (zombie.cat)

Pre-order. Orders close November 30, 2026. Your deck ships between January 4 and January 9, 2027 if we reach the minimum purchase order of 50 customers.

Start Japanese from zero. The Starter Box has every hiragana and katakana sound, plus your first 166 words from the JLPT N5 list, split into eight pocket decks you can carry. Grab the deck you're working on, study on the train, and swap decks when you're ready.

What's inside: 8 pocket decks and a storage box, 401 cards in all.

• Deck 1, Hiragana: every basic hiragana and the small っ, plus the how-to and game cards (52 cards)
• Deck 2, Katakana: every basic katakana, the small ッ and the long-vowel mark ー (48 cards)
• Deck 3, Voiced: every voiced sound, like が and パ, in hiragana and katakana (50 cards)
• Deck 4, Combos: every combined sound, like きゃ and シュ, plus the katakana for loanwords, like ファ (77 cards)
• Deck 5, Pointing & asking: this, that, here, there; asking and answering; linking words (48 cards)
• Deck 6, Food, clothes, home: eating and drinking, what you wear, and home (48 cards)
• Deck 7, Out & about: town and school, people and pets, numbers and money (38 cards)
• Deck 8, Describe & do: how much, how often, what it's like; do, be, become (32 cards)

Each deck comes in its own tuck box and opens with a divider card: 393 numbered cards and 8 dividers.

• Kana cards show the character big, marked hiragana or katakana
• Word cards show the word on the front, and the reading, meaning and an example sentence on the back
• Every card is numbered by deck and position (for example, Deck 6 · #23), so a stray card always finds its way home. Cards may arrive shuffled; the numbers put them back in order.
• Play them as flash cards, Kana Go Fish, Memory or Snap
• 63 x 88 mm cards with a linen finish

How to use it: read the front and say what it means and how to read it. Then flip the card to check. Keep the cards you missed and try them again tomorrow.