How do you say "Shorter, please." in Japanese?

Name: There's a Barber on Every Corner in Japan. Ten Minutes, One Sentence, Done.
Uploaded: 2026-08-15T02:00:06Z
Duration: 21 s
Description: Learn to say 短くしてください (mijikaku shite kudasai) — Shorter, please.. A 30-second Japanese lesson for travelers from Kōfuku.

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There's a Barber on Every Corner in Japan. Ten Minutes, One Sentence, Done.

To say Shorter, please. in Japanese, say 短くしてください (mijikaku shite kudasai).

Three weeks in and your hair's a problem. There's a barber right there, and instead of a receptionist there's a ticket machine.

短くしてください mijikaku shite kudasai Shorter, please.

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短くしてください。 mijikaku shite kudasai. Shorter, please.
すみません、短くしてください。 sumimasen, mijikaku shite kudasai. Excuse me, shorter please.

Kanji in this phrase

短く: みじかく
何ミリ: なんミリ

Why this phrase

The quick-cut barbers, the ones tucked into stations, run about fifteen hundred yen and ten minutes flat. You buy a ticket from a machine, sit down, and nobody's going to chat. So one sentence has to carry the whole haircut.