About Tabiji
Tabiji is a free strategy game about travelling Japan, played right in your browser. It is part board game, part card game, part route planner: every journey gives you fourteen days to get from a start city to a destination, and on the way you choose which trains, buses and ferries to ride, where to stop and what to do there. Every place on the map is real — 78 cities and towns, 700 named places, 22 festivals and 10 islands.
Every morning you draw cards and put up to three of them into Morning, Afternoon and Evening.
Travel cards move you over the actual rail, bus, ferry and flight links, paid with Budget and Energy.
Pick one of three real places: obtain its card for your deck, or stamp it into your travel book.
Stamps and souvenirs are small shapes. Neighbours of one category or from different regions score extra, and so do full rows and columns.
Reach your destination by day fourteen. Every journey is scored, and the daily journey sends everyone down the same route.
Yes. It runs in the browser, with no download, no account and no ads.
Yes. On a phone or tablet the game switches to a layout of its own: you tap cards instead of dragging them, and the map opens full screen when you pick a destination. On a computer you see the whole board at once.
A journey is fourteen in-game days of three moves each. It saves as you go, so you can stop at any time and come back later.
No, it is a game — but built on real geography. The cities, routes and places exist, so a journey can double as inspiration for a trip.
No. The guided tutorial explains every choice, and every place comes with a short description.