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Japanese for Travelers Phrasebook & Dictionary: Useful Phrases, Travel Tips, Etiquette Guide
This travel–sized 4 x 7 inch book is a combination Japanese phrasebook, Japanese travel guide and Japanese etiquette guide.
Packed with expressions and information for every travel situation, Japanese for Travelers Phrasebook & Dictionary helps you to get around and communicate more effectively during your time in Japan. This book includes hundreds of tips and phrases for the following situations:
Meeting people
Asking directions
Shopping and asking about prices
Ordering food and drinks
Getting connected to the Internet
Taking a subway, bus or taxi
Asking for help
Daily conversations
Helpful illustrations demystify Japan's complicated rail system and provide handy information on ferry travel as well. The text offers tips on where to look for a cheap, comfortable night's sleep (you'd be surprised), to whom not to stand behind when in line at customs, as well as essential things to purchase for your Japan trip before you leave your home country and how to say you do not eat fugu (poisonous pufferfish!).
About this new, updated edition:
New manga illustrations
New phrases for technology, checking in for a flight, baggage claim and more!
Japanese script and Romaji have been added for all phrases
Suggestions for downloading useful apps to make travel around Japan easier
Packed with expressions and information for every travel situation, Japanese for Travelers Phrasebook & Dictionary helps you to get around and communicate more effectively during your time in Japan. This book includes hundreds of tips and phrases for the following situations:
Meeting people
Asking directions
Shopping and asking about prices
Ordering food and drinks
Getting connected to the Internet
Taking a subway, bus or taxi
Asking for help
Daily conversations
Helpful illustrations demystify Japan's complicated rail system and provide handy information on ferry travel as well. The text offers tips on where to look for a cheap, comfortable night's sleep (you'd be surprised), to whom not to stand behind when in line at customs, as well as essential things to purchase for your Japan trip before you leave your home country and how to say you do not eat fugu (poisonous pufferfish!).
About this new, updated edition:
New manga illustrations
New phrases for technology, checking in for a flight, baggage claim and more!
Japanese script and Romaji have been added for all phrases
Suggestions for downloading useful apps to make travel around Japan easier
192 pages, Paperback
Published August 15, 2017
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October 19, 2018
i appreciated the notes on etiquette, and found the best summary of JR rail pass here, not easily found on the internet for some reason. the phrases were a strange selection, and i skipped them.
October 24, 2025
This book is laid out well, and had picture to help navigate it.
I have been using a number of different resources to attempt to do some Japanese ahead of my upcoming trip and all I can say is that I regret that the new iPhone does not allow for simultaneous translation in Japanese yet, because that would be the only way we would be able to understand or communicate in Japanese!
For me, a book that has both audio and written options is a better choice, and in some ways, the audio is more important because I have not learned to read the alphabet and so reading is also not an option.
All that aside, this is well done and I am glad I got it out of the library.
I have been using a number of different resources to attempt to do some Japanese ahead of my upcoming trip and all I can say is that I regret that the new iPhone does not allow for simultaneous translation in Japanese yet, because that would be the only way we would be able to understand or communicate in Japanese!
For me, a book that has both audio and written options is a better choice, and in some ways, the audio is more important because I have not learned to read the alphabet and so reading is also not an option.
All that aside, this is well done and I am glad I got it out of the library.
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews