来店（らいてん、raiten）
- visiting a store

The Japanese word 来店 来店（らいてん - raiten） means "to visit a store" or "to come to a store." It specifically refers to the act of a customer visiting a retail establishment, restaurant, or other business for the purpose of shopping, dining, or receiving a service. It is a common and polite way to describe a customer’s visit to a business.

⚫︎ 新しいカフェに来店しました。 Translation: I visited the new cafe. ⚫︎ お客様の来店をお待ちしております。 Translation: We are looking forward to your visit. ⚫︎ 先月、たくさんのお客様が来店されました。 Translation: Many customers visited last month.

⚫︎ 来店 来店 is typically used in a formal or semi-formal context, especially in business settings or when speaking to customers. ⚫︎ You would use it when talking about customers visiting a store, making announcements, or writing marketing materials. ⚫︎ It can also be used in more casual settings, but it's generally considered polite and professional. ⚫︎ You can use different conjugations of 来店 depending on the tense and politeness level of your sentence: 来店する (to visit), 来店しました (visited), 来店ください (please visit), etc.

⚫︎ The word is written using the kanji 来 (rai - to come) and 店 (ten - shop/store). ⚫︎ The reading is らいてん (raiten) in hiragana. ⚫︎ There are no variations in the okurigana for this word.

⚫︎ 訪問 (ほうもん - houmon) - to visit (more general) ⚫︎ 立ち寄る (たちよる - tachiyoru) - to stop by ⚫︎ 入店 (にゅうてん - nyuuten) - to enter a store (more focused on entering)

⚫︎ There isn't a direct antonym for 来店 来店. You could say "not visiting" or "not coming," but there's no single word that is a direct opposite. The absence of customer visits could be expressed in several ways, such as: ⚪︎ 客が来ない (kyaku ga konai) - Customers don't come. ⚪︎ 閉店 (heiten) - closing the store (business is over).

当店のウェブサイトからご予約いただくと、スムーズに来店できます。 ・Translation: If you make a reservation from our website, you can visit smoothly. ・Explanation: This sentence explains that making a reservation online makes the customer's visit easier.

初めて来店されるお客様には、割引クーポンをご用意しております。 ・Translation: We have discount coupons for customers who are visiting for the first time. ・Explanation: This sentence offers a promotion for first-time visitors to encourage them to visit the store.

The word is formed from the kanji 来 (ki/rai), meaning "to come," and 店 (ten), meaning "shop" or "store." Therefore, 来店 literally means "to come to a shop/store" or "shop visit."