Your Tokyo Train Was Five Minutes Late. The Station Hands You a Note Proving It.
To say A delay certificate, please. in Japanese, say 遅延証明書をお願いします (chien shoumeisho o onegai shimasu).
In Japan, five minutes late isn't a delay. It's an incident, and there's paperwork.
遅延証明書をお願いします
chien shoumeisho o onegai shimasu
A delay certificate, please.
In this video
- 遅延証明書をお願いします。 chien shoumeisho o onegai shimasu. A delay certificate, please.
- すみません、遅延証明書をお願いします。 sumimasen, chien shoumeisho o onegai shimasu. Excuse me, a delay certificate, please.
Kanji in this phrase
- 遅延証明書
- ちえんしょうめいしょ
Why this phrase
Kofuku plays a passenger coming off a late train at the ticket gate; Hana plays the station staffer handing out delay certificates. When a train runs roughly five minutes or more behind, Japanese railways issue a 遅延証明書 so you can prove to a boss or a school that it genuinely wasn't you. It's free, nobody asks for ID, and most lines now post one online too.
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