How do you say "the final stop, the end of the line" in Japanese?

Name: You Are Half Asleep on a Japanese Train. One Word Means Everybody Gets Off.
Uploaded: 2026-08-11T01:58:18Z
Duration: 26 s
Description: Learn to say 終点 (shuuten) — the final stop, the end of the line. A 30-second Japanese lesson for travelers from Kōfuku.

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You Are Half Asleep on a Japanese Train. One Word Means Everybody Gets Off.

To say the final stop, the end of the line in Japanese, say 終点 (shuuten).

The announcement says one word, the whole carriage stands up, and the train you were comfortably asleep on is about to stop being a train.

終点 shuuten the final stop, the end of the line

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In this video

終点です。 shuuten desu. This is the final stop.
まもなく、終点、東京です。 mamonaku, shuuten, toukyou desu. Arriving shortly at the final stop, Tokyo.

Kanji in this phrase

終点: しゅうてん
終電: しゅうでん
東京: とうきょう

Why this phrase

終点 is the final stop, the end of that train's run. At the final stop the train empties, staff walk through, and it goes out of service or turns around, so there is no staying aboard. It is a listening word: you hear it in the onboard announcement long before you can read anything. Teach it against 終電, the last train of the night, which the catalog already covers, because tourists mix the two up. 終点 is about WHERE, 終電 is about WHEN. Do NOT imply the final stop strands you overnight; it usually just means changing trains.