How do you say "Please help yourself" in Japanese?

Name: You Get to Your Tokyo Hotel at Midnight and There Is No Toothbrush. Nothing Is Missing.
Uploaded: 2026-08-27T22:12:24Z
Duration: 33 s
Description: Learn to say ご自由にお取りください (gojiyū ni otori kudasai) — Please help yourself. A 30-second Japanese lesson for travelers from Kōfuku.

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You Get to Your Tokyo Hotel at Midnight and There Is No Toothbrush. Nothing Is Missing.

To say Please help yourself in Japanese, say ご自由にお取りください (gojiyū ni otori kudasai).

You get to your Tokyo hotel at midnight, go to brush your teeth, and there's no toothbrush. Nothing's missing.

ご自由にお取りください gojiyū ni otori kudasai Please help yourself

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ご自由にお取りください。 gojiyū ni otori kudasai. Please help yourself.
歯ブラシはご自由にお取りください。 haburashi wa gojiyū ni otori kudasai. Please help yourself to the toothbrushes.

Why this phrase

Plenty of Japanese business hotels have moved the toothbrushes, razors and cotton pads out of the rooms and onto a table by the front desk. There's a sign on that table, and it's the same one line Japan uses on free tea, free maps and umbrella bags. Read it and you stop walking past free things all trip.