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I'm reading a book that translates these two sentences as following:

  1. スミスさんは東京駅で電車 **に** 乗ります。-> Mr. Smith will get on the train at Tokyo Station.
  2. スミスさんは新宿駅で電車 **を** 降ります。-> Mr. Smith will get off the train at Shinjuku Station.

As you can see, the first sentence uses に before the verb and the second one
uses を. I don't understand why this happens. **Could you explain it?**

Are these two particles interchangeable in this situation, that is, could I
use を in the first sentence and に in the second one?
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grammar particles particle-に english-to-japanese particle-を
Are で and に particles interchangeable when using them with 乗ります and 降ります verbs?
They are not interchangeable in this circumstance. In general, boarding a
vehicle takes the particle に with 乗る. Getting off a vehicle often takes the
particle を to mark the object of the action of getting off.

As a memory trick (if it helps), think of getting on something as movement
upwards (stepping up onto a train, getting up on a bike, climbing on a horse,
etc.), and associate that movement with the particle に. When you are getting
off (getting down), think of the vehicle as the object of the verb (get off
[object]), and associate that with を. It's not technically accurate but it
might help to conceptualize it in this way.
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