金閣寺のバス






Featured Kanji
(いつ・いつつ・ゴ)
five

Vocabulary

  • — the Golden Pavilion
  • — bus
  • — August
  • — the 5th day; five days
  • — I; me
  • — Kyoto
  • — station
  • — front; before
  • — to be (for people/animals)
  • — 9 o’clock
  • — red
  • — blue
  • — to come
  • — to go
  • — to understand; to know
  • — next to; neighbor
  • — person; people
  • — which (of two)
  • — to ask; to listen
  • — to say
  • — many; a lot
  • — quiet
  • — to get on; to ride

Grammar / Notes

  • Time + に A specific point in time — a clock time, a weekday or a date — normally takes the particle to say when something happens: , . (“On August 5th, I was in front of Kyoto station.”)
  • どちら / どれ (which) asks which of two things is …; asks which of three or more. The answer takes too. (“I asked the person next to me, ‘Excuse me, which one goes to the Golden Pavilion?’”)

English

The Bus to the Golden Pavilion

On August 5th, I was in front of Kyoto station.
At 9 o’clock, a red bus and a blue bus came.
But I did not know the bus to the Golden Pavilion.
I asked the person next to me, “Excuse me, which one goes to the Golden Pavilion?”
That person said, “Both go.”
Because the red bus had many people, I got on the quiet blue bus.