This Japanese Shop Is Lit, Open, and Completely Empty. It Still Expects You to Pay.
To say unstaffed shop, pay on the honour system in Japanese, say 無人販売 (mujin hanbai).
Lights on, freezers running, nobody working. The shop's open.
無人販売
mujin hanbai
unstaffed shop, pay on the honour system
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- ここは無人販売所です。 koko wa mujin hanbaijo desu. This place is an unstaffed shop.
- ここにお金を入れます。 koko ni okane o iremasu. You put the money in here.
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