In Japanese, "changing rooms" is 更衣室 (kōishitsu). It is a noun pronounced "koh-ee-shee-tsoo".
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更衣室 is written in kanji. Romanised as kōishitsu, it sounds roughly like "koh-ee-shee-tsoo" to an English ear.
あの更衣室はとても大きいです。
Ano Kōishitsu wa totemo ookii desu.
That changing rooms is very large.
Kōishitsu (更衣室) means changing rooms in Japanese. This noun describes a feature or object found in indoor or outdoor environments.
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Buy on Steam更衣室 is romanised as kōishitsu. Say it roughly like "koh-ee-shee-tsoo" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
更衣室 is a neutral, everyday word that works in both casual and polite speech. The level of formality comes from the sentence structure around it, not from the word itself.
更衣室 is written using kanji. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
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