Taking taxi to hotel: Phrases and vocab

💬 [この] means "this" for a noun that follows, so [このホテル] is "this hotel." You can reuse the same pattern with other destinations, like [この住所] or [この店].

💬 [まで] means "up to / as far as," and in taxi Japanese it's the natural way to say your destination: [この住所まで]. You can swap in almost any place: [駅までお願いします。] or [空港までお願いします。]

💬 [どのくらい] asks "about how much/how long," and what follows tells you what kind of amount you mean. With [かかりますか] here, it means "how long will it take?" rather than "how much will it cost?"

💬 With [〜を使ってください], you're asking someone to use something: here [メーターを使ってください] = "please use the meter." The same pattern works with other things too, like [アプリを使ってください].

🇯🇵 This is understandable, but in Japan it can sound a bit blunt or suspicious because taxi drivers normally use the meter unless there's a fixed fare. It's more useful as a phrase for edge cases than as something you'd say in an ordinary ride.

💬 [止めてください] comes from the verb [止める] "to stop." In requests with [〜てください], many verbs change shape like this: [曲がる] → [曲がってください], [待つ] → [待ってください].