On the airplane in Japanese

Traveling around Japan on vacation or business? Need to know what to say on the airplane in Japanese? You can make sure your journey goes smoothly by learning a few useful Japanese words and phrases before you depart in this free Rocket Japanese lesson.

How do you say ticket and passport in Japanese? What’s the Japanese word for luggage? You’ll learn these important words and more. We’ll also show you how to ask the flight attendants for what you need in Japanese. We hope you won’t need to explain that something has gone wrong with your travel plans, but just in case, we’ll teach you how to do that too.

Knowing how to use these essential Japanese travel phrases will give you more confidence next time you’re traveling by plane in Japan, so let’s get started.

As hard as you try, without helpful feedback your Japanese pronunciation is never going to be the same as a native speaker’s. If you've found it difficult to perfect the way you say Japanese words and phrases, this lesson will help you.

Using the blue Rocket Record buttons you can record the way you say each word or phrase, and compare it with the way a Japanese native speaker does. That’s right, with Rocket Japanese voice mapping technology you can record your voice as many times as you need until your pronunciation matches the Japanese speaker!

Yoku dekimashita!

Sayaka Matsuura
Rocket Japanese

Exercise: Which one is right?  You can print this lesson out and write the letter of the correct answer in the space provided.