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Yoroshiku onegaishimasu is a commonly used phrase when meeting someone for the
first time. Is there a more suitable phrase that would more accurately convey
nice to meet you? Could I say oaide kite ureshii desu?
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Are there different ways to say nice to meet you in Japanese?
It depends on what you mean by "nice to meet you"

a) as the phrase, where it carries no / very little meaning of actually being
happy to have met the person (instead of never ending up meeting)

If a), "はじめまして" is probably the most natural one.

OR

b) To express actual delight of getting to meet the person, e.g when you have
been really looking forward for it.

If b), I can't come up with anything very good, but maybe "あえてうれしい" or
"やっとあえてよかった" (The latter one is stressing more the fact that you have been
waiting, i.e. would be like "I am glad I finally got to meet you"
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If it is towards a 目上の人, you can use 目にかかる.

> お目にかかれて嬉しいです

But that's more of "It's nice to see you (again)" rather than "Nice to meet
you (first time)".
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