An Empty Taxi Drove Straight Past You in Tokyo With Your Arm in the Air. Two Kanji in the Window Had Already Said No.
To say out of service in Japanese, say 回送 (kaisō).
An empty taxi in Tokyo drove straight past you with your arm in the air. It wasn't ignoring you. Two kanji in the window had already said no.
回送
kaisō
out of service
In this video
- この電車は回送です。 kono densha wa kaisō desu This train is out of service.
- 回送の電車には乗れません。 kaisō no densha ni wa noremasen You can't get on an out of service train.
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