{"id":105957,"date":"2014-11-25T02:26:36","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T07:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/learn\/japanese-survival-phrases\/"},"modified":"2025-02-27T04:21:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T09:21:36","slug":"japanese-survival-phrases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/japanese\/japanese-survival-phrases\/","title":{"rendered":"94 Survival Japanese Phrases for Basic, Everyday Situations"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been learning Japanese for a few years, including a year of formal university studies. So when I visited Japan this year, I felt ready to use all my learned Japanese skills. In reality, though, over the course of our 14-day stay in Tokyo and Izu, I found myself using the same handful of phrases<\/a> over and over.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Regardless of your reasons for visiting or your language level, these survival Japanese phrases are the ones I found most useful when traveling around Japan.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Greetings and Introductions<\/h2>\n

Note that there isn’t a general term for “hello” in Japanese<\/a>. Instead, you need to use the correct phrase for the time of day. Alternatively, just bow lightly to say hello. Bowing is extremely common in Japan, and I found myself bobbing my head at everyone from hotel staff to passersby on the street.<\/p>\n