entrance fee; admission fee; admission; entrance charge; admission charge
admission ticket; entrance ticket; platform ticket; ticket allowing a non-traveller access to a railway station platform
change (for a purchase); toilet splashback
article; news story; report; account
your house; your home; your husband; your organization; you
Japanese sword (usu. single-edged and curved); Japanese bladed weapon
perfect; ideal; completely satisfactory; leaving nothing to be desired; faultless; impeccable
cache; place to hide something
to shut one's eyes to (one's own faults, etc.); to pretend not to see; to pay no attention to; to forget; to fail to notice; (lit.) to put on a shelf
very interesting; of absorbing interest; having a keen interest (in); being immensely curious (about)
selling out; being sold out
safe; strongbox; cashbox; depository; cash office; treasury
small change; pocket change; coins; small sum of money
phone extension; indoor wiring; inner line
first shrine visit of the New Year
part-time job; side job; part-time worker; part-timer
fishy; dubious; questionable; false-looking
hair dyed brown; brown-dyed hair
outrageous; preposterous; scandalous; inexcusable; absurd; execrable
the year before a critical age; the year before an inauspicious year
exorcism; ceremonial cleansing from evil influence; exorcism performed door to door, in exchange for beans and money (on the night of New Year's Eve or Setsubun)
calamity; disaster; great misfortune; grand climacteric
marriage; marriage tie; love knot; spiritual connection (to a person, object); spiritual tie; fated connection
mature age; advanced age; maturity; age when one is old enough to know better
to be stingy (with); to skimp (on)
Tochigi Prefecture (Kanto area)
prefectural border; prefectural boundary
transport; transportation; conveyance; carriage
exhibition hall (room, area)
offer; tender; providing; sponsoring (a TV program)
material; substance; matter
expansion and contraction; elasticity; flexibility
establishing proof; demonstration; substantiation
reading in a monotone; stiff delivery; wooden delivery; reading a Chinese classical text without translating it into Japanese
cathode-ray tube; CRT; Braun tube
rack; ruck (rugby); lac; luck
step; stair; shelf; layer; grade; level; dan (degree of advanced proficiency in martial arts, go, shogi, etc.)