- doya cheap lodging or flophouse, especially in a skid row area or slum
Used in informal or journalistic contexts to refer to cheap, often rundown lodging for day laborers, typically in urban skid-row areas.
彼はどやに泊まっている。
Kare wa doya ni tomatte iru.
He is staying at a flophouse.
大阪には有名などや街がある。
Ōsaka ni wa yūmei na doya-gai ga aru.
There is a famous flophouse district in Osaka.
⚖️ Commonly confused with 'yado' (lodging), but 'doya' specifically implies cheap, shabby accommodation for the underprivileged.
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