Short reading · 5 questions · answer evidence
Japanese Station Reading: A Platform Change
Read a change of platform and separate the original plan from today’s instruction. Check the destination, departure time and place to wait before answering.
An original fictional learning text by LavaJapanese. Places, prices and rules in the passage are invented for practice.
Read the text
Tap an underlined word for its dictionary form, meaning and save button. Press Escape to close the word panel.
- 1
駅のお知らせ
- 2
北町の電車は、二から出ます。
- 3
今日はのため、三から出ます。
- 4
は二時十分です。
- 5
二時、三でください。
- 6
南町の電車は、一から出ます。
Vocabulary for this text
How to find the information
Always read the sentence beginning 今日は before relying on いつも. Here, the notice deliberately gives both the usual platform and an exception. The platform for the other destination is a third piece of information; it is not an alternative platform for your train.
Departure time and the requested arrival deadline differ by ten minutes. までに identifies when you must already be waiting. The activity 待ってください uses で for the platform where you wait.
Check with five questions
Practise without an account. Sign in to sync your results and review schedule.
Loading your history…
Loading your history…
History and self-check answers
The answers below are for self-study and do not record a score. Mixed practice uses topics you have practised.
Recorded questions in this set: 0
Correct on first attempt: 0
Where do the answers come from?
Open an explanation to compare it with the text. Opening these answers does not record a score or change your progress.
1. Which platform should a Kitamachi passenger use today?
三番線
Today’s construction changes platform two to platform three. Evidence: 北町行きの電車は、いつも二番線から出ます。 / 今日は工事のため、三番線から出ます。
2. What is the destination of the train that changed platforms?
北町
The notice continues describing the Kitamachi train. Evidence: 北町行きの電車は、いつも二番線から出ます。 / 今日は工事のため、三番線から出ます。
3. Copy the departure time, without です.
午後二時十分
The stated departure is 2:10 p.m., not the 2 p.m. waiting deadline. Evidence: 出発は午後二時十分です。
4. By what time should passengers be waiting?
午後二時
午後二時までに sets the deadline at 2 p.m. Evidence: 午後二時までに、三番線で待ってください。
5. Copy the particle marking the place where passengers wait.
で
三番線で待ってください uses で for an activity location. Evidence: 午後二時までに、三番線で待ってください。
Continue and review
Mistakes enter your notebook and receive a review date. If a sentence pattern caused trouble, revisit the related unit before the next reading.