How do you say "Could you lend me the fare to get home?" in Japanese?

Name: Wallet Gone, No Way Home. The Japanese Police Box Has a Form for This.
Uploaded: 2026-09-08T20:11:46Z
Duration: 30 s
Description: Learn to say 帰りの電車賃を貸していただけませんか。 (kaeri no denshachin o kashite itadakemasen ka.) — Could you lend me the fare to get home?. A 30-second Japanese lesson for travelers from Kōfuku.

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Wallet Gone, No Way Home. The Japanese Police Box Has a Form for This.

To say Could you lend me the fare to get home? in Japanese, say 帰りの電車賃を貸していただけませんか。 (kaeri no denshachin o kashite itadakemasen ka.).

Wallet gone, phone at four percent, no way home. In Japan the police box has a form for exactly this, and it comes with cash.

帰りの電車賃を貸していただけませんか。 kaeri no denshachin o kashite itadakemasen ka. Could you lend me the fare to get home?

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In this video

帰りの電車賃を貸していただけませんか。 kaeri no denshachin o kashite itadakemasen ka. Could you lend me the fare to get home?
わかりました。千円までならお貸しできます。 wakarimashita. sen'en made nara o-kashi dekimasu. Okay, I see. We can usually lend up to 1,000 yen.
必ずお返しします。 kanarazu o-kaeshi shimasu. I'll definitely pay it back.

Why this phrase

Kōfuku is the stranded traveller at the door of a kōban at night; Hana is the officer on duty. 公衆接遇弁償費 is real, but get the details right: it's a budget item administered by each PREFECTURAL police force under its own 要綱, NOT a National Police Agency fund, so say police boxes have a budget for this. The cap is usually 1,000 yen and varies by prefecture (Iwate is 500). It is DISCRETIONARY and granted only where no other way home exists, so the officer weighs the situation first and can refuse. Procedure: explain, the officer judges, you fill in a 借受願書, you get the cash, you repay at any police facility or by mail. Script guardrail: a genuine last resort with a repayment obligation, never a hack, and the video must say they can say no. Hana is matter-of-fact and kind, Kōfuku visibly embarrassed, and it ends on the promise to pay it back.