How do you say "Is there a shuttle bus?" in Japanese?

Name: Your Ryokan Is a Two Thousand Yen Taxi From the Station. It Also Runs a Free Van.
Uploaded: 2026-08-06T02:02:39Z
Duration: 37 s
Description: Learn to say 送迎バスはありますか？ (sougei basu wa arimasu ka?) — Is there a shuttle bus?. A 30-second Japanese lesson for travelers from Kōfuku.

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Your Ryokan Is a Two Thousand Yen Taxi From the Station. It Also Runs a Free Van.

To say Is there a shuttle bus? in Japanese, say 送迎バスはありますか？ (sougei basu wa arimasu ka?).

You are standing at a small station with a suitcase, eyeing the taxi rank. There is a free van, and nobody told you about it.

送迎バスはありますか？ sougei basu wa arimasu ka? Is there a shuttle bus?

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Kanji in this phrase

送迎バス: そうげいバス
三十分おき: さんじゅっぷんおき

Why this phrase

A ryokan or airport hotel front desk on arrival, or the guest phoning from the station. Kofuku plays the arriving guest; Hana plays the front desk staff who answers with the pickup point and time. One takeaway: the question 送迎バスはありますか？ Most onsen ryokan, airport hotels and countryside inns run a free pickup van from the nearest station or terminal, and it is almost never advertised in English, so the guest has to ask. Accuracy guardrails from the Japanese verifier: 送迎バス is the industry word (JTB files it under 送迎サービス); 送迎車 is the same service in a car, シャトルバス is a fixed-timetable city or airport loop and is NOT what a ryokan says, and お迎え is the act rather than the vehicle, so a guest does not ask お迎えはありますか. Have Kofuku name the destination the way a real guest does: 駅まで送迎バスはありますか？ Hana's reply should be one of these three, most likely first: はい、ございます。駅の西口までお迎えに行きます。 (real desk keigo is お迎えに参ります) / はい、ございます。駅に着いたら、お電話ください。 (the plain-form 着いたら inside the clause is correct, do not change it to 着きましたら) / はい、三十分おきに出ています。 (desk keigo 出ております). Keep it to a normal short, roughly even English and Japanese split.