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One Word in the Train Announcement Means Stand Up Now. Everything Else Is Noise.

To say We will be arriving at Shibuya shortly. in Japanese, say まもなく、渋谷です (mamonaku, shibuya desu).

The announcement is thirty seconds of Japanese. There is exactly one word in it you actually need.

mamonaku, shibuya desu We will be arriving at Shibuya shortly.

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  1. まもなく、渋谷です。 mamonaku, shibuya desu. We will be arriving at Shibuya shortly.
  2. 次は、渋谷です。 tsugi wa, shibuya desu. The next stop is Shibuya.

Kanji in this phrase

渋谷
しぶや
駅
えき
次
つぎ

Why this phrase

「まもなく」 means we are pulling in any second now. 「次は」 means your stop is still coming. One of them tells you to get to the door, the other tells you to sit tight, and knowing which is which turns a wall of announcement into a timer.

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