今何時?

Read the Time in Kana and Romaji.

DIGITAL
18:26
KANA
ごご ろくじ にじゅうろっぷん
ROMAJI
gogo roku-ji nijuuroppun

🏮 The Midnight Mystery

One night in Kyoto, I was at a steak restaurant and asked the staff what time they were closing.

Sumimasen, time, close?
Yes, in intentionally broken English.

He answered in Japanese:

Gogo jūichi-ji.

No idea what it is. Turns out, he said 11:00 PM.

That moment stuck with me.

I didn't want to be lost the next time Japanese time came up — I wanted to actually be familiar with it.

So I built TimeKana.

Available on iOS

Start reading the time in Japanese.

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