Conversations · Lesson 30

Travel: tickets, rooms, sightseeing, photos, souvenirs

すみません、写真しゃしんを撮とっていただけますか。

Book the shinkansen and a ryokan, ask about hours and photos at sights, ask for a photo, buy local treats, and review the key phrases of the whole course.

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At a station ticket office, give your destination, number of tickets, one-way or return and seats; book a ryokan by phone with the dates, number of nights, number of people and meals.
At sights, ask about tickets, opening hours and whether you can take photos; ask someone to take your picture with 「写真しゃしんを撮とっていただけますか」, and offer to take other people’s.
When buying local treats, ask about local specialities, how many are in a box and how long they keep, and ask for small bags to hand them out.
Remember the most useful phrases from the whole course, which lesson each came from and when to use them on a trip.

6 sections · 7 practice sets · 40 questions

In this lesson

01Main dialogue: a temple in Kyoto
02What people will say (you only need to understand these)
03What you say: asking at sights and asking for a photo
04Booking train tickets and accommodation
05Buying souvenirs and local treats
06Travel habits, and the key phrases from the whole course

Practice

Match what the other person says to its meaning
How would you reply, and what should you do?
Match each phrase to its situation
Which sentence says what you want?
Choose the word for each blank
Change to a polite way of speaking
Put the dialogue in order

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