How to say "travel" in Japanese

• 旅たびJLPT N3approx.Common
  nounCovers a journey or trip, especially as an experience — leaving home, the road, what the journey means. Suits talk of a long, memorable or evocative journey rather than bare logistics.
  以前いぜんは、人々ひとびとは歩あるいて旅たびをしたものだった。↗

  People used to travel on foot.
• 旅行りょこうJLPT N5approx.Common
  noun, suru verb, intransitive verbTravel or a trip as an activity: going somewhere for leisure or business and everything around it — planning, booking, coming home. This is the word you want for talking about taking a trip.
  いつ旅行りょこうにおいでになりますか。↗

  When will you go on a journey?
• 伝わるつたわるJLPT N2approx.Common
  godan verb, intransitive verbIts 'travel' sense is about news, rumours or sound spreading or getting across — how a story travels from person to person. It never describes a person or vehicle making a journey.
• トラベルCommon
  nounThe English loanword, met mostly in the names of agencies, tours and magazines; in ordinary sentences about taking a trip, 旅行 is the word you want.
• 移動いどうJLPT N3approx.Common
  noun, suru verb, transitive verb, intransitive verbMovement or transfer from one place to another: getting from A to B, whether across the country or across town. It focuses on the change of location itself, not the journey as an experience.
  平和へいわな丘おかや田園でんえん地帯ちたいから、通とおりがあり群衆ぐんしゅうがいる忙いそがしい世界せかいへと移動いどうするのである。↗

  They are moving from the peaceful hills and the countryside to the busy world of streets and crowds.

Use 旅行 for a trip as an activity and 旅 for a journey as an experience; 移動 for getting from place to place; 「伝わる」 only when news or sound travels; 「トラベル」 mainly in names.

Usage comparisons are AI-assisted and cross-checked by multiple models; for study reference only

• 旅たびtravel
• 旅行りょこうtravel
• 伝わるつたわるto spread (of a rumour, news, etc.)
• トラベルtravel
• 移動いどうmovement
• 羇旅きりょtravel
• 旅するたびするto travel
• 走るはしるto run (of a vehicle)