- Start元日がんじつNew Year's Day
- Start日帰りひがえりday trip
- Start夜間やかんnight, nighttime
- Start始めにはじめにfirst, firstly, first of all
- Start先々週せんせんしゅうweek before last
- Start水曜すいようWednesday
- Start関西かんさいKansai (region comprising Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe and surrounding prefectures)
- Start関東かんとうKantō (region comprising Tokyo and surrounding prefectures)
- Start定休日ていきゅうびregular holiday, fixed day off, regular closing day
- Start待ち合わせるまちあわせるto rendezvous, to meet at a prearranged place and time, to arrange to meet
- Start平日へいじつweekday, ordinary days (i.e. non-holiday)
- Start長引くながびくto be prolonged, to drag on, to take a long time
- Start初ウブinexperienced (in life experience), unsophisticated, green
- Start初はつfirst, new
- Start初ぞめfirst doing of ... (ever, in one's life, in the new year, etc.)
- Start直後ちょくごimmediately following
- Start初めにはじめにfirst, firstly, first of all
- Start深夜しんやlate at night
- Start無限むげんinfinity, infinitude, eternity
- Start以降いこうon and after, from ... onward, since
- Start乗り越しのりこしriding past (one's station)
- Start未みnot yet, un-
- Start先程さきほどa short while ago, a moment ago, just now
- Start引っ掛かるひっかかるto be caught in, to be stuck in