Improve your Japanese reading with the classic folk tale 'Kintarō the Golden Boy' (金太郎). This app gives you a side-by-side bilingual reading experience — natural Japanese with its English translation, sentence by sentence.

Follow the story of Kintarō, the immensely strong child of the mountains who befriends the wild beasts. With built-in vocabulary lookups, audio, and furigana-style readings, it's a perfect way to practise reading Japanese while enjoying a timeless tale.

Part of a growing collection of Japanese folk tales, drawn from the classic Gutenberg edition of Ozaki's 'Japanese Fairy Tales'.