Illustration: A delivery cyclist pauses beside the final house on a small Japanese town's road. Behind the cyclist, closely spaced homes, utility poles, and a compact neighborhood workshop continue toward the town center.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

町まち外はずれ

machihazure

outskirts of a town

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれの家いえは街外まちはずれにあります。

    His house is on the outskirts of the city.

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  2. 私わたしたちは町まちはずれの小ちいさなホテルに泊とまった。

    We put up at a small hotel just on the edge of the town.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 街まちはずれには村営そんえいの温泉おんせんセンターがあり、下山者げざんしゃがよく利用りようしている。

    There is a hot spring center operated by the village at the edge of the town, and people who come down the mountain often use it.

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

Kanji in 町外

  • 町town; villageOnチョウKunまち
  • 外outsideOnガイ・ゲKunそと・ほか・はずす

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