上野動物園、土曜の夜のどうぶつえんが始まる

Welcome to Japanese Daily News. I'm Maya. Today is May twenty-eighth. Tokyo's Ueno Zoo just started a special event — you can visit the zoo at night, only on Saturdays. Let's listen.

Let's break it down.

A new event has started at Ueno Zoo.

Zoo. The kanji literally mean animal plus garden.

You can enter the zoo only on Saturday nights.

Night. You'll see it in today, tonight, and midnight.

The hours are six to nine in the evening.

To start, to begin. This is the form used when something starts on its own. The partner verb, with an e instead of an a, is used when a person starts something.

One thousand people can enter per day.

Fun, enjoyable. A very common everyday adjective.

Admission is six hundred yen for adults and two hundred for children.

Adult. The kanji are big plus person.

At night, you can see animals different from daytime.

Child. Plural is the same word plus tachi.

There are beautiful lights inside the zoo.

Beautiful. A more formal word than the everyday one for pretty. Common in writing and news.

It is a small electric car designed after the shoebill, a bird.

Bird. Same kanji you see in grilled chicken on a menu.

Let's listen to the full story one more time.

Quiz time. Three questions.

What is the name of the event? Saturday Night Zoo.

What time does it run? From six pm to nine pm.

How much is the adult admission? Six hundred yen.

That's today's Japanese Daily News. Full transcript with furigana at podcast.jpnotes.dev. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. See you tomorrow.