Illustration: At a Japanese suburban railway station, a uniformed attendant in a peaked cap opens the wide staffed gate for a traveler whose oversized instrument case cannot pass comfortably through the ordinary ticket gates.

JLPT N4nounLevel estimated by Bebop

駅えき員いん

ekiin

station attendant

Example sentences

  1. 私わたしは駅員えきいんに切符きっぷを見みせました。

    I showed the station attendant my ticket.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. どれに乗のったらよいか分わからない。駅員えきいんを探さがすが見みつからなかった。

    I didn’t know which to take. I looked for a station attendant but didn’t find one.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 駅員えきいんは配置はいちされていない。

    The station isn’t manned.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 駅員

  • 駅stationOnエキ
  • 員employee; memberOnイン

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