How do you say "I'd like to rent a bicycle." in Japanese?

Name: The Kyoto Bus Has Not Moved in Ten Minutes. Everyone Overtaking It Is on a Bicycle.
Uploaded: 2026-08-07T06:35:00Z
Duration: 20 s
Description: Learn to say 自転車を借りたいです (jitensha o karitai desu) — I'd like to rent a bicycle.. A 30-second Japanese lesson for travelers from Kōfuku.

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The Kyoto Bus Has Not Moved in Ten Minutes. Everyone Overtaking It Is on a Bicycle.

To say I'd like to rent a bicycle. in Japanese, say 自転車を借りたいです (jitensha o karitai desu).

Everyone told you to take the bus here. Everyone was wrong.

自転車を借りたいです jitensha o karitai desu I'd like to rent a bicycle.

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In this video

自転車を借りたいです。 jitensha o karitai desu. I'd like to rent a bicycle.
一日いくらですか？ ichinichi ikura desu ka? How much for one day?
何時までに返せばいいですか？ nanji made ni kaeseba ii desu ka? By what time should I bring it back?

Kanji in this phrase

自転車: じてんしゃ
一日: いちにち
何時: なんじ
返せば: かえせば

Why this phrase

Kyoto, Kamakura, Kanazawa and most small towns are flat, compact and faster by bike than by bus, and most tourist cities still have a rental counter by the station. One takeaway: the sentence that gets you on a bike, where the reusable half is the want-to form, which swaps in for anything else you want to rent. Note honestly that a growing share of city bikes are now app based share cycles like HELLO CYCLING and Docomo Bike Share, with no counter and no conversation.