| at | on | in | |
| 時間 | hour, minute | days, dates | centuries, decades, years, months, weeks morning, afternoon, evening |
| 時間の例 | at 6pm, at 10 o'clock at night, at noon | on Wednesday, on Mondays on Nov. 20, 1997 on Christmas Day | in May, in summer, in the summer in 1980, in the 1980s in three weeks, in ten months in the morning, in the evening, in the afternoon |
| 場所 | point near buildings, complete addresses | enclosed place island, river | surface continent, country, state inside buildings, opened areas |
| 場所の例 | at home, at school at the corner | on a plane, on a bus, on a train, on a ship on television, on the street(※) | in a helicopter, in a car, in a taxi, in a boat in the sky, in the world, in Japan |