diff --git a/lib/Mojo/Collection.pm b/lib/Mojo/Collection.pm
index 7f6ed27fe0..523c941815 100644
--- a/lib/Mojo/Collection.pm
+++ b/lib/Mojo/Collection.pm
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ use Scalar::Util 'blessed';
 
 our @EXPORT_OK = ('c');
 
+sub TO_JSON { [@{shift()}] }
+
 sub c { __PACKAGE__->new(@_) }
 
 sub compact {
@@ -152,6 +154,12 @@ Construct a new array-based L<Mojo::Collection> object.
 
 L<Mojo::Collection> implements the following methods.
 
+=head2 TO_JSON
+
+  my $array = $collection->TO_JSON;
+
+Alias for L</"to_array">.
+
 =head2 compact
 
   my $new = $collection->compact;
diff --git a/t/mojo/collection.t b/t/mojo/collection.t
index 804453829b..2be3b004de 100644
--- a/t/mojo/collection.t
+++ b/t/mojo/collection.t
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ use Mojo::Base -strict;
 use Test::More;
 use Mojo::ByteStream 'b';
 use Mojo::Collection 'c';
+use Mojo::JSON 'encode_json';
 
 # Array
 is c(1, 2, 3)->[1], 2, 'right result';
@@ -154,4 +155,9 @@ is_deeply $collection->uniq->to_array, [1, 2, 3, 4, 5], 'right result';
 is_deeply $collection->uniq->reverse->uniq->to_array, [5, 4, 3, 2, 1],
   'right result';
 
+# json
+$collection = c(1, 2, 3);
+my $bytes = encode_json $collection;
+is $bytes, '[1,2,3]', 'TO_JSON';
+
 done_testing();