This is a list of traditional Japanese games.

Games

Children's games

* Beigoma * Bīdama * Daruma-san * Hide-and-seek * Kemari * Kendama * Ken-ken-pa (

Hopscotch Hopscotch is a playground game in which players toss a small object, called a lagger, into numbered triangles or a pattern of rectangles outlined on the ground and then hop or jump through the spaces and retrieve the object. It is a children's ...

) * Menko * Nawatobi ( Jump rope) * Ohajiki * Onigokko * Oshikura Manju * Otedama

Board games

* Go - originates in China, important rules change (free opening) in Japan *

Renju ''Renju'' () is a professional variant of the abstract strategy board game gomoku. It was named renju by Japanese journalist Ruikou Kuroiwa (黒岩涙香) on December 6, 1899, in a Japanese newspaper ''Yorozu chouhou'' (萬朝報). The name "r ...

Shogi , also known as Japanese chess, is a Strategy game, strategy board game for two players. It is one of the most popular board games in Japan and is in the same family of games as chess, Western chess, chaturanga, xiangqi, Indian chess, and janggi. ...

* Hasami shogi * Sugoroku * Ninuki-renju

Card games

* Buta no shippo * Daifugō (another name: Daihinmin) *

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Karuta are Culture of Japan, Japanese playing cards. Playing cards were introduced to Japan by Portuguese traders during the mid-16th century. These early decks were used for trick-taking games. The earliest indigenous ''karuta'' was invented in the ...

* Oicho-Kabu * Two-ten-jack (Tsū-ten-jakku) - a

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trick-taking A trick-taking game is a card game, card- or tile-based game in which play of a ''Hand (card games), hand'' centers on a series of finite rounds or units of play, called ''tricks'', which are each evaluated to determine a winner or ''taker'' of ...

card game. *

Uta-garuta is a type of a deck of ''karuta'', Japanese traditional playing cards. A set of ''uta-garuta'' contains two sets of 100 cards, with a '' waka'' poem written on each. ''Uta-garuta'' is also the name of the game in which the deck is used. The st ...

- a kind of karuta (another name:

Hyakunin Isshu is a classical Japanese anthology of one hundred Japanese ''waka'' by one hundred poets. ''Hyakunin isshu'' can be translated to "one hundred people, one poem ach; it can also refer to the card game of '' uta-garuta'', which uses a deck compo ...

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Tile games

* Japanese Mahjong - Japanese mahjong, also called rīchi mahjong * Goita

Dice games

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

Word games

* Dajare * Henohenomoheji * Kaibun *

Shiritori Shiritori (; ) is a Japanese language, Japanese word game in which the players are required to say a word which begins with the final ''kana'' of the previous word. No distinction is made between ''hiragana'', ''katakana'', and ''kanji''. "Shirito ...

Solitaire games

Sudoku Sudoku (; ; originally called Number Place) is a logic puzzle, logic-based, combinatorics, combinatorial number-placement puzzle. In classic Sudoku, the objective is to fill a 9 × 9 grid with digits so that each column, each row, and ...

* Tsume shogi

Drinking games

* Konpira see https://www.samuraitours.com/japanese-partydrinking-game/