Japan travel
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Japanese for Leaving Japan: Tax-Free, Check-In, Departure
Leaving Japan is a chain of short, fast exchanges with staff who ask the same handful of questions every time. Learn those questions and the whole departure day stops being stressful.
15 min readEssential Japanese Travel Phrases for Your First Trip
You do not need conversational Japanese to travel well. You need about forty phrases, said clearly, in the handful of situations where they genuinely come up.
12 min readJapanese for Trains and Stations: Phrases That Work
A Japanese station is easy to use and hard to ask about. These are the lines that get you a ticket, the right platform, and a way out when you board the wrong train.
11 min readJapanese Hotel Phrases: Check-In to Check-Out
Hotel Japanese is unusual: you only need simple polite sentences, but the staff answer in elaborate keigo. This guide gives you both halves of the conversation.
12 min readShopping in Japanese: Phrases for Shops and Konbini
Most shopping Japanese is not speaking. It is recognising a fast, polite question and answering it in one or two words before the queue behind you grows.
12 min readHow to Ask for Directions in Japanese with Confidence
Asking the question is the easy half. This guide gets you through the harder half, which is understanding the answer and checking that you understood it.
12 min readPrepare for a Trip to Japan with an AI Japanese Tutor
A phrasebook prepares you to say things. A trip needs you to hear the answer and reply within two seconds, which is a different skill and the one most travellers arrive without.
15 min readHow to Order Food in Japanese: Restaurant Phrases That Actually Work
From the moment you walk in to the moment you pay, a Japanese restaurant visit follows a script. Learn the script and the whole meal gets easier.
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