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Gokaido Conquest

The vocabulary campaign across five real Japanese rail networks, with stations and service classes.

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Each JLPT level is a Japanese rail network, from the Yamanote to the Shinkansen.

Every station on the map is a real one, written in kanji, kana and romaji, and holds a band of the level's words. Clearing a station stamps it, and the line inks itself as far as you have ridden.

How a Gokaido Conquest network is builtJYJYJYJYJYJYJYJYOne station, one rideFree rides the first 8 Yamanote stationsCleared legs ink the lineLocal 60%60%Rapid 80%80%Ltd Express 95%95%
A network in progress: stamped stations, the inked arc, and the pulsing frontier.
NetworkLevel
Yamanote LineN5
Ginza LineN4
Osaka Loop + MidosujiN3
Gokaido (five highways)N2
Shinkansen networkN1

Accuracy sets your service class

  1. 60% or better clears the station at the Local grade (1 star).
  2. 80% or better upgrades the ride to Rapid (2 stars).
  3. 95% or better earns the Limited Express (3 stars). Your best grade is the one kept, so a weaker replay doesn't lower it.

Accuracy counts the whole station

The score counts every word in the station, so a question you never reached counts as wrong, and stopping early won't save your grade. In a normal Words drill only the answers you give are scored.

How the network opens

A station opens once you've cleared any station next to it on the line. Rings open in both directions, and the five highways on the N2 map all start together. Free accounts can ride the first 8 Yamanote stations, and the rest of the ring stays visible but locked.

The map with stamped, frontier, and locked stations.
The map with stamped, frontier, and locked stations.
First clear
20 XP
First Ltd Express
15 XP
Line complete
60 XP
Network conquered
250 XP

Milestones pay once, and outside the daily cap

Each milestone above pays once in your account's life, outside the 300 XP daily drill cap. If your plan drops, the map locks again but your stamps stay.

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