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3. ご遠慮ください。

1. kitsu en•in shoku•i  nemuri nado no (等の can also be read in the more formal “tō no”)

2. hokano okyakusama  ni  gomeiwaku to naru  kōi  wa

3.  go en ryo  ku da  sa  i.

喫煙 kitsu en = smoking

飲食 in shoku = eating & drinking

居眠りi nemuri = snooze, doze

等 nado = et cetera (alternate reading: tō)

他の hokano = another

お客さま okyakusama = formal word for customer

に ni = to, for

ご迷惑 go mei waku = problem, trouble, inconvenience

となる to naru = that will become

行為 kōi = behaviour

は wa = remember that while this hiragana is usually pronounced HA, when it marks a subjective it is pronounced WA. Here it is a noun marker.

ご遠慮 go en ryo = refrain

ください  kudasai = please

So a general translation would be: “Please refrain from smoking, eating, sleeping or doing anything else that disturbs the other guests.”