Planning to travel to Japan or just want to expand your Japanese vocabulary? 🗼🚉 In this lesson, you’ll learn the most important buildings and places PLUS how to ask for and give directions in Japanese.
You’ll discover: ✅ Common building names like 学校 (がっこう – school), 銀行 (ぎんこう – bank), 病院 (びょういん – hospital), and more ✅ Essential direction words like 右 (みぎ – right), 左 (ひだり – left), and まっすぐ (straight ahead) ✅ Phrases for asking directions politely ✅ Example conversations you can use right away
Perfect for beginners, travelers, and anyone who wants to navigate Japan with confidence.
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Hello and welcome to your 26th lesson of
this Japanese for beginners course. This
is your teacher Rosie and let's get
started. Let's review what we have
learned in our previous lesson.
Fats
shots
t-shirts
t-shirts
brow
suits
suits
miz
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Pajama.
Pajama.
Hi here.
Hi here.
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More.
More
shopping center.
Shopping center.
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Peace.
Doris.
Doris.
Mafur.
Neck tie. Neck tie. Neck.
Neck.
Jeans.
Jeans.
And now today's topic is directions. But
before directions. Let's learn some
names of locations. Okay, let's get
started.
Shop or store. Miss
supermarket.
Super
building
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or
in katakana. Train station
bus stop.
Beach or seaside
or beach.
restaurant.
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Park
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library.
Cinema.
Museum like historical type of museum.
Art museum.
Post office.
Police station
hotel. Hotel.
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Japanese style hotel.
Parking
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school
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g
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university
high
Middle school.
Elementary school or primary school.
Street.
road or avenue.
Bank,
city hall,
hospital.
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Right. Migi
migi left
straight
north.
Southami.
East
West
corner.
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Traffic lighting
to turn
to cross the street.
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How could we ask where is something?
Where is the So
here we would need to put our location.
Where is it? Something.
Very good.
Now, if we would like to say I need to
go to,
we would say our location.
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So this is a very formal way to ask for
where to go you know because
is very simple but this one is very
formal.
So for example here I want to put bank.
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Now another way to ask would be how do I
go to? So let's say we put bang here.
How how do I go there?
Okay. So how do I say go straight? I
would say it like this.
Turn right.
Turn left
to cross the street.
Left side of the street would be
means side
right side of the street would be
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now if you want to tell directions to
someone this is the way to do it. You
would use
for example turn left we would say
Turn right would be
so please turn right.
Go straight would be
it's on your right would be
It's on your left would be
very good.
Cross the street would sound like this.
Please cross the street.
You have learned a very important lesson
about directions. So,
and I will see you in our next lesson.
