I think we’ve all had that moment when we realized we’re better at reading hiragana and kanji better than katakana.
Look no further. The solution to all your problems is here. All you have to do is switch your phone language to Japanese, open up your map app, and start reading every town name in your state. 
Have fun!!!
This is actually kind of brilliant. Nice idea!
Oh I like this idea!! some serious practice haha. I’ll add this too:
Lots of English loan words in Katakana!!!
Nice idea! I’m using Google Maps on Android and I can also see the native names under the katakana. What app/phone are you using?
I’m using an iPhone on the built-in Apple Maps app. It doesn’t have any English on it. But I made sure to place Japanese on a higher priority in my phone’s settings. Maybe English is still prioritized on your phone or it’s just a feature of the android.
Switched my phone to japanese long time ago. Still can’t read katakana as good as hiragana. yes i am talking about you 「ツ シ ン ソ」
SRS some katakana words. After 100 or 200, you’ll be good to go 
I think it’s a feature because I put Japanese as a higher priority and French places are still in French below the katakana. Same with Russian places.
Strangely, Korean places are written with romanized Korean and Hangul. No katakana 
ニューアーク vs ニューヨーク took me a second to figure out. At first I was wondering why NY was listed twice. lol
haha I was staring at it for a bit too… I was like… what is this??? And then I felt dumb after I sounded it out a few times lol
ニューアーク gets no respect. 
This is an amazing idea!!!
If you play video games in Japanese, you’ll get used to Katakana quickly
