N2 · 40 words

Tourism and travel planning

Booking rooms and tours, travel costs and seasons, and the words travel writing uses.

Hotel pages, tour brochures and travel articles are written in compact two-kanji words that rarely turn up in conversation: a booking page says 空室(くうしつ)あり, a brochure promises a 行程(こうてい) and a 送迎(そうげい). Travel writing says 堪能(たんのう)する where English says “enjoy”, and it has two words for the feel of a place, 風情(ふぜい) and 情緒(じょうちょ), that have no neat English match; “charm” and “atmosphere” are only near.

The words

Verb (1)

巡るto go round; to tourVerbN2

京都(きょうと)のお寺(てら)を巡(めぐ)る旅(たび)に出(で)た。I set off on a trip round the temples of Kyoto.

This list belongs to Getting around and going away — ten lists and 401 words that can also be practised as a whole.

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