Your Taxi Gets More Expensive at Night. Four Kanji Tell You When.
To say late-night rate in Japanese, say 深夜料金 (shin'ya ryōkin).
Same taxi, same route, more money, and the reason is four kanji nobody points out to you.
深夜料金
shin'ya ryōkin
late-night rate
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- 深夜料金がかかります。 shin'ya ryōkin ga kakarimasu. A late-night rate applies.
- 深夜料金はいくらですか？ shin'ya ryōkin wa ikura desu ka? How much is the late-night rate?
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