Translation guide
A flat outdoor area adjacent to a building, often used for dining or leisure. In Japanese, the term varies depending on the setting: a restaurant terrace, a residential balcony, or a stepped agricultural field.
To refer to an open-air dining or seating area attached to a café, restaurant, or similar establishment.
The most common and direct translation for a restaurant terrace. It is a loanword from English and widely understood.
I had coffee on the terrace.
Emphasizes that the terrace is open-air. Often used in restaurant descriptions.
This restaurant has an open terrace.
To describe a private outdoor space attached to a residence, such as a balcony or rooftop terrace.
The standard term for a balcony in a house or apartment. It can be used for a terrace-like space.
I like having breakfast on the balcony.
Specifically a rooftop terrace. Used for buildings with a flat roof area for leisure.
You can see the city view from the rooftop terrace.
Can also refer to a residential terrace, especially in upscale housing or when the space is larger than a typical balcony.
To refer to terraced fields used for farming on slopes, such as rice paddies.
To describe a flat, paved area in a garden or park used for walking or sitting.
テラス generally refers to a ground-level or rooftop open space, often paved. バルコニー is a balcony projecting from a building, usually on an upper floor. ベランダ is a roofed balcony or porch, often found in Japanese apartments. For a restaurant terrace, always use テラス.
This apartment has a veranda (roofed balcony).
We had a barbecue on the terrace of our house.
A more general term for terraced fields, not limited to rice. It can refer to any stepped cultivation.
Terraced fields spread across the mountain slope.
I put chairs on the wooden deck.