Travel and Tourist Transactions
Buying a ticket and getting to the station, and the three little words that decide what your sentence actually means: を, に and で.
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きっぷを ください 🎫
Japanese words rarely change their shape. What changes the meaning of a sentence is the tiny word that comes AFTER each noun, and this module is about three of them. Every word below is shown four ways: the **kana** reading first, then the **kanji** where there is one, then **romaji** in brackets, then the **English**. Learn the kana reading, because that is the form the exam board puts first, and remember that work written in romaji earns no credit.
Key words 🗂️
The nouns a traveller needs:
Match each word to its meaning
- きっぷ / 切符 (kippu)
- えき / 駅 (eki)
- へや / 部屋 (heya)
- かぎ / 鍵 (kagi)
- ticket
- station
- room
- key
The three little words 🧷
A particle goes AFTER the noun it belongs to and says what job that noun is doing. **を** marks the thing itself: きっぷを かいます, I buy a ticket. Note that を is used only ever as this particle, and it is pronounced o. The other two decide where and how.
Which particle? 🚉
You want to say "I go to the station". Which is right?
- えきに いきます (eki ni ikimasu)
- えきで いきます (eki de ikimasu)
- えきを いきます (eki o ikimasu)
- えき いきます (eki ikimasu)
Choose the particle 📝
きっぷ_____ かいます。えき_____ いきます。でんしゃ_____ いきます。
Asking and buying 💬
Three expressions finish the transaction:
Order the exchange 🔀
An interactive activity.
Which are right? ✅
Select the TWO sentences that use the right particle.
- きっぷを かいます, I buy a ticket
- でんしゃで いきます, I go by train
- えきを いきます, I go to the station
- きっぷに かいます, I buy a ticket
えきで 🧭
An interactive activity.
The summary 🖊️
The Japanese for a ticket is _____ and for a station is _____. A particle goes _____ the noun it belongs to. The thing you buy takes _____, the place you are going to takes _____, and the way you travel takes で.
Your turn ✍️
An interactive activity.