A typical keyboard will look like this: https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-2394848830a7526592f3a182e18966d2 https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-2394848830a

A typical keyboard will look like this: https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-2394848830a7526592f3a182e18966d2 https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-2394848830a7526592f3a1... But none of the Japanese I know use the hiragana directly. They told me it is mostly old people who use it. Almost every Japanese knows romajis now, there is no additional cost of learning a new alphabet.