Destination is a state of mind. A tale of one girl and her bike and the road ahead. Kino wanders around the world on the back of Hermes, her unusual, anthropomorphic motorcycle, only staying in each country for three days. During their adventures, they find happiness, sadness, pain, decadence, violence, beauty, and wisdom. But through it all, they never lose their sense of freedom. They discover that because of the world's imperfections, it is actually a thing of beauty. "The world is not beautiful, therefore it is." (Source: Tokyopop)
Japanese study overview
Kino no Tabi: the Beautiful World is a Japanese novel of 1,831,060 characters, with 27,231 unique words and 2,608 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 3.0 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 27,231 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
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Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 国country×5,006
- 言うto say×4,922
- 男man×4,091
- 私I×2,505
- 聞くto hear×2,132
- 中inside×2,041
- 人person×2,030
- 達pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)×1,841
- 旅人traveller×1,834
- 様Mr×1,794
- 思うto think×1,617
- 前in front (of)×1,587
- 出国departure from a country×267
- 番兵sentry×178
- 国長Kuniosa×176
- 審査官examiner (e.g. patent examiner)×156
- 後輪rear wheel×150
- 入国審査官immigration officer×146
- 発砲音sound of a shot×116
- 弾倉magazine (for a firearm)×108