Momotaro Japanese Reading Lesson

Momotaro, the Peach Boy, is born from a giant peach and journeys with a talking dog, monkey and pheasant to defeat the oni terrorising people, returning home with their stolen treasure.

What you can study

Follow the story in beginner, intermediate and advanced versions.
Use Study Mode to reveal particles, verbs, nouns, expressions and grammar patterns.
Listen to recorded sentence audio and review story vocabulary in the library.

Sample Japanese sentences

むかしむかし、おじいさんとおばあさんがいました。

桃太郎は、鬼退治へ行くことにしました。

Use it in the app

Open the interactive story to switch levels, listen to sentence audio, view furigana and tap tagged words for explanations.

Open interactive app