この電車は新宿に行きますか。
Kono densha wa shinjuku ni ikimasu ka.
Does this train go to Shinjuku?
- Word for word
- “Does this train go to Shinjuku?”
- Politeness: Polite
- です/ます style. The safe default with strangers, shop staff and colleagues.
- When you would say it
- Checking before boarding.
- Worth knowing
- Station staff will answer in simple Japanese; the platform signs show 行き (ゆき, bound for).