"Welcome to Japan!"
Translation:ようこそ日本へ！
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おかえりんさい means "welcome back home" , and it's addressed to japanese only :)
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ようこそ (Welcome) 日本 (Japan) へ(To)
The particle is always at the end of a term, so is here.
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I am not very certain.
ようこそ should be a derivative of older Japanese of よい and ぞ, and means "it's really nice…" The full sentence is ようこそ 日本へ いらっしゃいませ.
Hence I am inclined to not saying in the reversed order 日本へようこそ.
Thanks for the explanation! I'll try to memorize it that way, but Duolingo actually accepted that as a correct answer too.
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BTW, I have never heard anybody actually "saying" it. It is only found on banners, or said publicly (in a tourist event, etc.). In hotels and restaurants, staff would say いらっしゃいませ.
it insisted i had to write it this way even though it wrote it the other way before, good to know both should be accepted, reported.
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Not terribly, there's a subtle difference. I believe へ is more used for travel in a general direction and is also pretty much always used with ようこそ
Is this something that a Japanese person would say to you your first time in Japan? If so, what would be the proper response to it?
Why on earth isn't "日本にようこそ" accepted? 199000 hits on Google can't be wrong...
