模擬店(もぎてん)

もぎてん
noun
stall (at a school festival); booth
educationleisure
1. stall; booth (run by students or volunteers at a festival)
A temporary food or game stall set up at a school festival, community event, or similar occasion, run by students or members rather than by professional vendors. Literally a "mock shop."
模擬店(もぎてん)を出(だ)す。
To run a stall.
Our class sold yakisoba at our stall.
On the day of the school festival, there were long lines at the stalls set up in the schoolyard.

模擬(もぎ) (mock, simulated) + 店(てん) (shop). A fixture of the 文化祭(ぶんかさい) (school culture festival) and 学園祭(がくえんさい) (university festival).

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Similar words

  • 屋台(やたい): food stall — run by professional vendors at shrine festivals and street markets
  • 出店(でみせ): stall, booth — general word for a temporary shop at any event

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