How do you say "I have hay fever." in Japanese?

Name: It Is Thirty Five Degrees and Your Nose Will Not Stop Running. You Did Not Catch a Cold in Japan.
Uploaded: 2026-09-03T06:10:00Z
Duration: 21 s
Description: Learn to say 花粉症です。 (kafunshou desu.) — I have hay fever.. A 30-second Japanese lesson for travelers from Kōfuku.

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It Is Thirty Five Degrees and Your Nose Will Not Stop Running. You Did Not Catch a Cold in Japan.

To say I have hay fever. in Japanese, say 花粉症です。 (kafunshou desu.).

Thirty five degrees outside and your nose has been streaming for three days. That is not a summer cold.

花粉症です。 kafunshou desu. I have hay fever.

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Kanji in this phrase

花粉症: かふんしょう

Why this phrase

Japan's famous pollen is spring cedar, so nobody warns visitors about the second season. ブタクサ, ragweed, kicks off around now and runs into October. Walk into a drugstore, say you have a cold, and you get aimed at the cold shelf, which is not the shelf you need. One word sends you to the アレルギー aisle instead. Scene: a Japanese drugstore counter. Kōfuku plays the miserable, sniffing customer; Hana plays the staff member who asks what the symptoms are and points him at the right aisle the moment he says 花粉症です.