Title: MiniCore Japanese-EN / Booster: Subway & City Transit
Tags: MinicoreJapanese-EN booster-subway sentence recognition vocab dialog dialog-line

MinicoreJapanese: Chaaji, onegaishimasu.
Native: チャージ、お願いします。
English: Top up (my card), please. (cash and card on the konbini tray)
Literal: charge, please
Notes: chaaji — the top-up, English "charge" wearing its train-station outfit. The clerk will ask how much or just look at the bills in your hand; a thousand-yen note is the usual bite.

MinicoreJapanese: Suica de, onegaishimasu.
Native: スイカで、お願いします。
English: By Suica, please. (naming your payment at any register)
Literal: Suica by, please
Notes: Lesson 6's means-de, pointed at a register. Any brand name works — say the one printed on your card, or just IC kaado de — and then tap when the reader lights up.

MinicoreJapanese: IC kaado wa arimasu ka.
Native: ICカードはありますか。
English: Do you have IC cards? (at a ticket machine's window, arriving day one)
Literal: IC card [topic] exists ?
Notes: IC kaado — the card itself, generically. The airport station window sells them all day; this is the day-one purchase question.

MinicoreJapanese: Zandaka wa ikura desu ka.
Native: 残高はいくらですか。
English: How much is the balance? (card handed to the window attendant)
Literal: balance [topic] how-much is ?
Notes: zandaka — the balance. Mostly you read this word: it flashes on every gate reader as you pass (残高), which is how Japan reminds you to charge before the gate does it less politely — see the dialog.

MinicoreJapanese: Kaisatsu wa doko desu ka.
Native: 改札はどこですか。
English: Where is the ticket gate?
Literal: ticket-gate [topic] where is ?
Notes: kaisatsu — the ticket gate, the tap-through row of paddles. Big stations have several, named by compass point; when you're meeting someone, this word plus a gate name is the standard rendezvous.

MinicoreJapanese: Ginza-sen wa doko desu ka.
Native: 銀座線はどこですか。
English: Where is the Ginza Line?
Literal: Ginza line [topic] where is ?
Notes: -sen — line, glued to any line's name. Every line also has a color and a letter — the Ginza Line is orange and G — and every station on it a number (G09), painted everywhere. You never need to pronounce a station name correctly again: the letter-number code on your map app is on the wall too.

MinicoreJapanese: Kono deguchi wa doko desu ka.
Native: この出口はどこですか。
English: Where is this exit? (pointing at the exit number on your map)
Literal: this exit [topic] where is ?
Notes: Lesson 4's deguchi plus Lesson 2's kono, aimed at your own screen. Underground stations have exits by the dozen, numbered and lettered (Exit 6, Exit A3), and every address, map pin, and meeting plan is given by exit — so the asking move is the course's oldest one: point at the code and let kono carry it. The answer will come back as a spoken exit number (roku-ban deguchi — it's in the script below; catch the digit, match it overhead). And the trick that saves whole city blocks: pick your exit number while you're still on the platform — the yellow signboards list what's near each one — and surface already pointed the right way.

MinicoreJapanese: Basutei wa doko desu ka.
Native: バス停はどこですか。
English: Where is the bus stop?
Literal: bus-stop [topic] where is ?
Notes: basutei — the bus stop, a pole with a timetable and often a patient line. Same-named stops scatter across a big intersection by direction, so this question stays useful even when you can see a stop.

MinicoreJapanese: IC kaado
Native: ICカード
English: IC transit card
Notes: one card: trains, buses, konbini, lockers

MinicoreJapanese: chaaji
Native: チャージ
English: top-up / charge
Notes: Chaaji, onegaishimasu. — cash only

MinicoreJapanese: zandaka
Native: 残高
English: (card) balance
Notes: flashes on every gate reader

MinicoreJapanese: kaisatsu
Native: 改札
English: ticket gate
Notes: the standard meeting point

MinicoreJapanese: -sen
Native: 線
English: line (suffix)
Notes: Ginza-sen — plus a color and a letter

MinicoreJapanese: basutei
Native: バス停
English: bus stop
Notes: Basutei wa doko desu ka.

MinicoreJapanese: Zandaka ga tarimasen ne.
Native: 残高が足りませんね。
English: Your balance is short. → to the charge machine, then tap through again
Literal: balance [ga] suffices-not [ne]
Notes: charge machine, tap again
Recognition only — you'll hear this; you never need to say it.

MinicoreJapanese: Mou ichido tacchi shite kudasai.
Native: もう一度タッチしてください。
English: Please tap (your card) once more. → the reader missed it — tap again, flat and slow
Literal: once more touch do-please
Notes: flat and slow
Recognition only — you'll hear this; you never need to say it.

MinicoreJapanese: Tsugi, tomarimasu.
Native: 次、とまります。
English: Stopping next. → your button press registered; gather up and move toward the front door
Literal: next, stops
Notes: to the front door
Recognition only — you'll hear this; you never need to say it.

MinicoreJapanese: Kochira wa josei senyou sharyou desu.
Native: こちらは女性専用車両です。
English: This is a women-only car. → weekday rush hours on marked cars; men step off at the next stop, no drama
Literal: this-side [topic] women exclusive-use car is
Notes: men: off at next stop
Recognition only — you'll hear this; you never need to say it.

MinicoreJapanese: Roku-ban deguchi desu.
Native: 六番出口です。
English: Exit 6. → direction answers arrive as exit numbers; catch the digit and match it overhead
Literal: six-number exit is
Notes: catch the digit, look up
Recognition only — you'll hear this; you never need to say it.

MinicoreJapanese: The gate bounce
Notes: Traveler: Sumimasen. Ginza-sen wa doko desu ka.
Excuse me — where is the Ginza Line?
[excuse-me. Ginza line [topic] where is ?]
Attendant: Kono saki, hidari desu.
Just ahead, on the left.
[this ahead, left is]
Traveler: Doumo.
Thanks.
[thanks (light)]
Attendant: Zandaka ga tarimasen ne.
Your balance is a little short. (the gate flashed and closed; card handed to the window)
[balance [ga] suffices-not [ne]]
Attendant: Achira no kikai de onegaishimasu.
Please use the machine over there.
[over-there of machine at, please]
Traveler: Hai, wakarimashita.
Yes — understood.
[yes, understood]
Traveler: Arigatou gozaimasu.
Thank you. (charged, tapped, through — thirty seconds start to finish)
[thank you (full polite form)]

MinicoreJapanese: Sumimasen. Ginza-sen wa doko desu ka.
Native: すみません。銀座線はどこですか。
English: Excuse me — where is the Ginza Line?
Literal: excuse-me. Ginza line [topic] where is ?

MinicoreJapanese: Kono saki, hidari desu.
Native: この先、左です。
English: Just ahead, on the left.
Literal: this ahead, left is

MinicoreJapanese: City transit scripts
Notes: Attendant: Zandaka ga tarimasen ne.
Your balance is short. → to the charge machine, then tap through again
[balance [ga] suffices-not [ne]]
Attendant: Mou ichido tacchi shite kudasai.
Please tap (your card) once more. → the reader missed it — tap again, flat and slow
[once more touch do-please]
Attendant: Tsugi, tomarimasu.
Stopping next. → your button press registered; gather up and move toward the front door
[next, stops]
Attendant: Kochira wa josei senyou sharyou desu.
This is a women-only car. → weekday rush hours on marked cars; men step off at the next stop, no drama
[this-side [topic] women exclusive-use car is]
Attendant: Roku-ban deguchi desu.
Exit 6. → direction answers arrive as exit numbers; catch the digit and match it overhead
[six-number exit is]
Recognition only — you'll hear this; you never need to say it.