とおりに details
write + just as
kaku toori ni
just as; exactly like; in the way that
レシピに書いてあるとおりに作ったのに、なんか違う味になった。
reshipi ni kaite aru toori ni tsukutta noni, nanka chigau aji ni natta.
I made it exactly as the recipe said, but somehow it came out tasting different. casual
説明書のとおりに組み立てたら、うまく動いた。
setsumeisho no toori ni kumitatetara, umaku ugoita.
When I assembled it exactly as the instructions said, it worked fine. neutral
Examples
just as; exactly like — an action or event matches a specified model, instruction, or prediction precisely
レシピに書いてあるとおりに作ったのに、なんか違う味になった。
reshipi ni kaite aru toori ni tsukutta noni, nanka chigau aji ni natta.
I made it exactly as the recipe said, but somehow it came out tasting different. casual
説明書のとおりに組み立てたら、うまく動いた。
setsumeisho no toori ni kumitatetara, umaku ugoita.
When I assembled it exactly as the instructions said, it worked fine. neutral
先生がおっしゃったとおりに手順を進めましたところ、実験は無事成功いたしました。
sensei ga osshatta toori ni tejun o susumemashita tokoro, jikken wa buji seikou itashimashita.
When we carried out the steps exactly as the teacher instructed, the experiment succeeded without incident. formal
天気予報のとおりに、午後から雨が降り出した。
tenki yohou no toori ni, gogo kara ame ga furidashita.
Just as the weather forecast said, it started raining from the afternoon. neutral
結局、すべて予定どおりに進んだ。
kekkyoku, subete yotei doori ni susunda.
In the end, everything went exactly as planned. neutral
Formation
{V}とおりにattaches to dictionary form{V-ta}とおりにattaches to た-form{N}のとおりにattaches to noun
Notes
noun, no の needed — but it never follows a verb (×言うどおり), so it isn't
modeled as a variant. いつも言うとおりにしている: the dict-row reads as the
standing rule; verb-ta pins one completed instance.
Related patterns
Similar
Both can translate "just as told," but とおりに generalizes to matching ANY external specification — a clause or a noun naming the model (説明書[せつめいしょ]のとおりに "just as the manual says", 天気予報[てんきよほう]のとおりに雨[あめ]が降[ふ]った "it rained just as the forecast said") — while まま's reference must be a clause naming a state directly experienced (見[み]たままに話[はな]す "tell it just as you saw it") and can never take a specification NOUN (×説明書[せつめいしょ]のままに, ×天気予報[てんきよほう]のままに雨[あめ]が降[ふ]った are both odd).
Lookalikes
Both can gloss as "in the way that," but とおりに demands a concrete PRIOR reference being reproduced exactly (先生[せんせい]が言[い]ったとおりに書[か]いた "wrote exactly as the teacher said"), while ように names an approximate goal with no prior utterance required (聞[き]こえるように話[はな]す "speak so as to be heard") — とおりに freely takes a past-tense verb before it, but purpose-ように never follows a past clause (×聞[き]こえたように話[はな]す is odd).
とおり and ところ are a genuine reading-speed misparse — とおり names a manner match ("in the way that"), while ところ marks a moment in an event's own progress (今[いま]帰[かえ]るところだ "just about to leave"); swapping them produces a real word that means something else entirely, not a manner claim.