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The front wall of the dojo, called shomen, is the place of honor. In most dojos there is a picture of the founder of the school hanging on the wall. In Japan, where Shintoism is the main religion, the shomen is a kind of altar called a Shinzen “the place of god." The instructors sit on the shomen's left side, joseki, while the students sit on the opposite side in descending order of rank from the shomen.

The karatedogi is the training outfit for karatedo; it consists of a jacket (uwagi) and trousers (zubon) made of white canvas and a belt (obi), the color of which indicates the rank of the student. The lower ten ranks (kyu) of non-black-belt holders (mudansha) are divided into the following belt colors: white, ranks 10 and 9; yellow, 8 and 7; orange, 6 and 5; green, 4 and 3; and brown, 2 and 1. The upper ten ranks (dan) of black-belt holders (yudansha) all wear the black belt for ranks (dan) 10 to 1; though on special occasions, ranks 6,7, and 8 wear a ceremonial red belt with white stripes, and ranks 9 and 10 wear a red belt, symbolizing their respective levels of achievement. Junior students (under age 14) are ranked in the same way but half of their belt remains white while the other half indicates their rank; on becoming seniors, they are reclassified.