List of traditional Japanese games

This article is about traditional Japanese games. For Japanese video games, see Video gaming in Japan. For Japanese game shows, see Japanese variety show.

This is a list of traditional Japanese games. Some of them are localized.

Games

Mechanical games

• Pachinko

Children's games

• Beigoma
• Bīdama
• Darumasan ga koronda
• Fukuwarai
• Hana Ichi Monme
• Hanetsuki
• Janken
• Kancho
• Kagome Kagome
• Kakurenbo
• Kendama
• Ken Ken Pa
• Nawatobi
• Ohajiki
• Onigokko
• Oshikura Manjū
• Otedama

Board games

• Go
• Irensei
• Renju
• Shogi
• Sugoroku
• Ninuki-renju

Card games

• Buta no shippo
• Daifugō (another name: Daihinmin)
• Hanafuda
• Karuta
• Menko
• Oicho-kabu
• Two-ten-jack (Tsū-ten-jakku) - a Japanese trick-taking card game.
• Uta-garuta - a kind of karuta (another name: Hyakunin Isshu)

Tile games

• Mājan - Japanese mahjong, also called rīchi mahjong
• Sudoku

Dice games

• Cho-han bakuchi - a gambling game
• Kitsune bakuchi

Word games

• Dajare
• Henohenomoheji
• Kaibun
• Shiritori
• Uta-garuta

See also

• Japanese role-playing game
• Video game