Japanese for Travelers Made Easy

A user-friendly guidebook for traveling in Japan. This book's aim is to aid those from abroad to easily navigate and understand the numerous circumstances they would encounter during a visit to Japan. Whether it be a business trip or a holiday, this guidebook will assuredly enhance a traveler’s experience in Japan by providing keywords and phrases to assist in communicating with Japanese people and to better understand the basic nuances of Japanese culture and language. Additionally, this guidebook is split into three parts that highlight expressions that emphasize simplicity, communicativeness, and ease of use. Sections are color-coded and the contents of each are written in English and Japanese with hiragana, kanji, romaji, and furigana.

 

Structure

• Information on how to download voice data and brief instructions on how to use the guidebook. 
• Part 1:  Grammar and useful phrases. This section covers everything from the fundamentals of Japanese grammar to useful phrases and words.
• Part 2:  Contains a list of Japanese sentences and phrases that will be useful in various situations that a  traveler in Japan will find themselves in: transportation, hotels, restaurants, shopping, sightseeing, health, and safety.
• Part 3:  A brief, comprehensive overview of Japan that covers a wide range of topics that mainly focus on Japanese culture. It also provides general travel and restaurant information in a more explanatory style than exemplified in Parts 1 and 2, which focuses mostly on communicating in Japanese.   
• A word and phrase index plus a travel vocabulary collection.

Recommended for you if:

• You are sightseeing in Japan.
• You are on a short term business trip in Japan.
• You are new to Japan.

About this volume:

Original Title: かんたん日本語＊旅手帳  Kantan Nihongo＊Tabi-techo 英語版　

Pages: 203

ISBN: 978-4863924833

Languages: English and Japanese 

Publishing date: May 10, 2020