Japanese phrases you need for travelling Japan

Hey, how's it going? I hope you're having a wonderful day. So very recently I just had my parents come and visit me in Japan and we had a wonderful trip together. They were here for about a week. Travelling with them helped me realise the kinds of words that people need to know when they're travelling Japan. A lot of them aren't completely necessary but they just kind of show respect and show that you are caring about the language and stuff like that. And honestly travelling in Japan, it's not that hard if you can't speak the language because everybody is so kind and so helpful. So even if they can't speak any English, they'll likely try and find someone who can or they'll do their very best to charade it out to you. It's not a huge necessity but in order to show back some of the kindness and love that they show you, it's really important that you learn just a couple of phrases and honestly it's just going to make your travel so much easier when you're here in Japan. I've left out a couple of really important ones, like ones that I thought people may already know but I'm trying to keep it as small of a list as possible. Oh by the way, my Japanese pronunciation is not perfect. Yeah, I'm obviously not native Japanese. It doesn't matter too much what your pronunciation is when you're just travelling for a little bit because any kind of sign that you're trying to learn the language is a good sign in their books. But yeah, let's get into it. The first one, of course, you need to know how to say thank you which is arigato gozaimasu. So you can just say arigato which is kind of, it's more casual, it just means like thanks but if you want to be more polite and show a bit more respect you can say arigato gozaimasu. You'll be using this all the time because Japanese people are so kind and polite so I use this word all the time. Please know how to say it because it means the world. I had a friend who came to visit and she was scared to pronounce things incorrectly therefore she would just say thank you in English which is fine but I don't think people would get mad at you for that but it just shows that you're extra bit if you're trying to speak their language a little bit so don't worry about the pronunciation for now if you're just here for a little bit please use arigato gozaimasu. The next one you'll use this all the time especially in Tokyo because there is a million people here. That word is sumimasen and sumimasen means excuse me and it can also mean sorry in most situations so if you bump into someone you can be like ah sumimasen which is totally fine if you're just saying ah excuse me rather than oh sorry which is why I left out the word for sorry in Japanese because I don't want to make the list too long and boring and use it in all situations when you're sitting at a restaurant and you want to get the waiter's attention you can say sumimasen and that feels kind of rude but it's totally normal in Japan so give it a go it's kind of fun and liberating to just yell excuse me above the restaurant but please do it in Japanese. Oh wow that would be really bad in English. You'll probably bump into people and be in the wrong place and you just want to say sorry to the whole of Japan so just say sumimasen all the time. An easy way to remember it is excuse me mason yeah just sounds like it. Next one number three very easy and that's hai which just means yes yeah. Number four this is the word like my parents would often ask how do I say no in Japanese so if someone offers me a bag and I don't want a bag how do I say no. Technically the word for no is ie but you don't often say it and it can sound a little harsh if you're just like in like in a restaurant or whatever. A more polite and easy way to say it is daijobu and you say this all the time this is like like top five words they'll be using every day in Japan. It means okay it means it's all right it means kind of like no thanks it's like ah it's okay I'm okay it's all right so if someone like bumps into you and they are saying oh sumimasen you can say which means that's okay that's fine also if someone's like do you want a drink with that you can say ah daijobu. Number six is onegaishimasu this isn't a word that you'll be using too much when you are traveling Japan kind of you won't you won't really need to use it too much but it's very useful to know what it means they'll say it all the time all the all the all the time and my parents are often saying what are they saying what are they saying I'm like oh onegaishimasu so in Japanese it can mean please it also means let's work together let's have a it's hard to explain in English but it basically means please so if somebody asks you at the convenience store do you want a bag you can say hai onegaishimasu so you hear it quite a lot that's just why it's on the list you don't have to say it all that much but it's good to know what it means number seven very useful if you're traveling Japan and you don't speak much Japanese at all and that is do you understand English you could ask someone in English do you understand English but it just seems a little nicer if you say it in Japanese you can just say eigo say eigo with with your hands up like this and a confused look on your face that can work too sometimes number eight super helpful when you're traveling around and you're trying to find the right train and you want to know where something is you can say something something whatever it is you're so doko is where and desu ka means it's a question you could say uh 7-eleven doko desu ka and that's where is 7-eleven or you can point on a map and say doko desu ka you can also just say with your hands up like this again yeah doko desu ka is a very very useful one for when you're traveling next on the list and this is something that surprisingly not a lot of like my friends that are living here know how to say and I use it all the time something something something whatever it is you're looking for arimasu ka that means is there so if you go into a convenience store you may ask the person ATM arimasu ka means is there an ATM here do you have an ATM you can go into like shops and be like coca-cola arimasu ka do you have coca-cola that's so useful so useful if you speak in English you'll have to say do you have coca-cola but in Japanese it's the opposite way around so when Japanese people hear do you have they may expect this to be the subject and this to be the the you know the extra part of the sentence that I can't remember the name of it's just so useful if you can say something something something arimasu ka very very very useful give it a go and you'll be surprised how easy it is to communicate with people so and the very last one is one that I asked my parents what did you need to say when you're in Japan and you wanted to know how to say it and my dad said I want to know how to say can I use a credit card Japan is a very cash based society it's kind of great but it's also kind of not when you just want to pay with a credit card and you want to know if that's okay but there's not many shops that do accept credit cards so the way that you say credit card are you ready for the most complicated Japanese ever credit card that's credit card in Japanese if you want it to be really simple to say credit card put your hands up and go hmm and then they work which is that number that I used before on number four so yes it's all it's all coming together that's totally fine people will know exactly what you mean if you say that and yes it's going to be very helpful if you're using your credit card all the time I hope that you found this list useful I'll be making another video of this but these are 10 more Japanese words that you should know when you're traveling Japan possibly for people that are traveling traveling a bit longer in Japan so stay tuned for that once again my Japanese is not perfect I'm not 100 fluent in Japanese but I'm confident in knowing the words that you should know when you're traveling Japan because I have lived here for a long time and I've had lots of visitors come and these are the words that they wanted to know so there you go I hope you've enjoyed this video if you like it give it a thumbs up if you want to see more you can subscribe if you don't want to see any more please continue to leave hate in the comments because it just makes YouTube suggest it more so um anyway thank you so much for watching and I'll see you next time bye