Is anyone able to explain why the verbal noun 乗り換え does not take -suru, but
instead becomes 乗り換える?

Cheers,

Luke
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乗り換え verbal noun does not take -する, instead 乗り換える?
乗り換え is a noun coming from the verb 乗り換える.

What you're trying to do is a bit like taking the English noun
'transformation' and turning it into the verb 'to transformation' instead of
using the source verb 'to transform'.
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