Japanese Hotels Ask Every Foreign Guest for the Same Thing. It Is Not Your Booking.
To say Your passport, please in Japanese, say パスポートをお願いします (pasupōto o onegai shimasu).
You gave your name at the hotel desk. Now they want something else.
In this video
- パスポートをお願いします。 pasupooto o onegai shimasu. Your passport, please.
- はい、どうぞ。 hai, douzo. Here you go.
Kanji in this phrase
- 願
- ねが
Why this phrase
Hotel check-in role-play. Hana plays the front desk clerk, Kofuku plays the arriving foreign guest. Japanese law requires hotels to see and photocopy the passport of every non-resident guest, so the sentence straight after your name is パスポートをお願いします. The guest recognises the line and answers はい、どうぞ, and the copier moment is normal procedure, not suspicion. Keep it to the exchange plus the reason.
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