Twenty Five Thousand Steps a Day. The Massage Shop Asks You One Question and You Need One Answer.
To say A little stronger, please. in Japanese, say もう少し強くお願いします (mō sukoshi tsuyoku onegai shimasu).
Your feet have done twenty five thousand steps a day for a week. There is a massage shop by every station, and the entire language barrier is one question they ask you.
Why this phrase
Kofuku plays the wrecked tourist face-down on the table; Hana plays the therapist. She asks 「強さはいかがですか?」, and he has three possible answers and that is the whole video: 「もう少し強くお願いします」 for more pressure, 「もう少し弱くお願いします」 for less, 「ちょうどいいです」 for just right. Keep the setup accurate. A walk-in relaxation chain runs roughly three to four thousand yen for sixty minutes, and the popular branches do fill up, so walk in or book on the app. These are not all the same shop either: リラクゼーション is relaxation bodywork, 整体 is body adjustment, and 整骨院 exists for injuries, which is a different errand entirely. They usually ask about pressure, at the start and again mid-session, but not always, which is exactly why knowing the line unprompted is worth thirty seconds.
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