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Fuji-san 富士山 Mt. Fuji
(o)tera お寺 Buddhist temple
jinja 神社 Shinto shrine

kyōkai 教会 Christian church

(o)shiro お城 castle
(o)matsuri お祭り festival

bijutsu-kan 美術館 museum

Islands Cities

Honshū Tōkyō Fukuoka
Kyūshū Kyōto Sapporo

Hokkaidō Ōsaka Hiroshima
Shikoku Nagoya Kobe

Okinawa Yokohama Nara

GRAMMAR NOTE V-tai Form = “Want to Do”

Verb-tai means “I want to do X”. To make the tai form of a verb, add -tai to the

verb stem (the portion before -masu). Desu can be added for the Formal form.
Tabe(masu) → Tabetai or Tabetai I want to eat it.
desu.

Nomi(masu) → Nomitai or I want to drink it.
Nomitai desu.

Note that the V-tai form is no longer a verb. It’s an adjective. All of its forms
follow the adjective patterns.

Affirmative Negative
Non- tabetai Tabetaku nai. (casual) I don’t want to eat it.
past

Tabetaku arimasen. I do not want to eat it.
Past tabetakatta Tabetaku nakatta. I didn’t want to eat it.

(casual)
Tabetaku arimasen I did not want to eat it.
deshita.