diff --git a/serde_valid/Cargo.toml b/serde_valid/Cargo.toml
index 3ecaf158..82771a58 100644
--- a/serde_valid/Cargo.toml
+++ b/serde_valid/Cargo.toml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ once_cell = "^1.7"
 paste = { workspace = true }
 regex = { workspace = true }
 serde = { workspace = true, features = ["derive"] }
-serde_json = { workspace = true, optional = true }
+serde_json = { workspace = true }
 serde_toml = { package = "toml", version = "^0.8", optional = true }
 serde_valid_derive = { version = "0.18.0", path = "../serde_valid_derive" }
 serde_valid_literal = { version = "0.18.0", path = "../serde_valid_literal" }
@@ -34,8 +34,7 @@ intl-memoizer = "0.5"
 unic-langid = "0.9"
 
 [features]
-default = ["i128", "json"]
-json = ["serde_json"]
+default = ["i128"]
 toml = ["serde_toml"]
 yaml = ["serde_yaml"]
 i128 = ["num-traits/i128", "indexmap/std", "serde_valid_literal/i128"]
diff --git a/serde_valid/src/features.rs b/serde_valid/src/features.rs
index 9039e3cb..928b4a5e 100644
--- a/serde_valid/src/features.rs
+++ b/serde_valid/src/features.rs
@@ -4,9 +4,6 @@ pub mod flatten;
 #[cfg(feature = "fluent")]
 pub mod fluent;
 
-#[cfg(feature = "json")]
-pub mod json;
-
 #[cfg(feature = "toml")]
 pub mod toml;
 
diff --git a/serde_valid/src/features/json.rs b/serde_valid/src/json.rs
similarity index 100%
rename from serde_valid/src/features/json.rs
rename to serde_valid/src/json.rs
diff --git a/serde_valid/src/features/json/from_json_reader.rs b/serde_valid/src/json/from_json_reader.rs
similarity index 100%
rename from serde_valid/src/features/json/from_json_reader.rs
rename to serde_valid/src/json/from_json_reader.rs
diff --git a/serde_valid/src/features/json/from_json_slice.rs b/serde_valid/src/json/from_json_slice.rs
similarity index 100%
rename from serde_valid/src/features/json/from_json_slice.rs
rename to serde_valid/src/json/from_json_slice.rs
diff --git a/serde_valid/src/features/json/from_json_str.rs b/serde_valid/src/json/from_json_str.rs
similarity index 100%
rename from serde_valid/src/features/json/from_json_str.rs
rename to serde_valid/src/json/from_json_str.rs
diff --git a/serde_valid/src/features/json/from_json_value.rs b/serde_valid/src/json/from_json_value.rs
similarity index 100%
rename from serde_valid/src/features/json/from_json_value.rs
rename to serde_valid/src/json/from_json_value.rs
diff --git a/serde_valid/src/features/json/to_json_string.rs b/serde_valid/src/json/to_json_string.rs
similarity index 100%
rename from serde_valid/src/features/json/to_json_string.rs
rename to serde_valid/src/json/to_json_string.rs
diff --git a/serde_valid/src/features/json/to_json_value.rs b/serde_valid/src/json/to_json_value.rs
similarity index 100%
rename from serde_valid/src/features/json/to_json_value.rs
rename to serde_valid/src/json/to_json_value.rs
diff --git a/serde_valid/src/features/json/to_json_writer.rs b/serde_valid/src/json/to_json_writer.rs
similarity index 100%
rename from serde_valid/src/features/json/to_json_writer.rs
rename to serde_valid/src/json/to_json_writer.rs
diff --git a/serde_valid/src/lib.rs b/serde_valid/src/lib.rs
index cc8e53a2..46df01cd 100644
--- a/serde_valid/src/lib.rs
+++ b/serde_valid/src/lib.rs
@@ -578,6 +578,7 @@
 
 pub mod error;
 mod features;
+pub mod json;
 mod traits;
 pub mod validation;