Are there cases when two or more particles will occur next to each other without intervening lexical words?

Question

Most particles seem to be postpositions but I'm sure I've seen say a noun followed by a location particle followed by "wa" or "ga" or possibly "wo" but when I've tried to use it I've only confused my Japanese friends. Under what circumstances can multiple particles end up next to each other and what's the most that could end up in sequence?

Answer 1

Yes. Some of the most common combinations are には, では, にも, へも, への and からの, although there are many more.

Basically, most nouns need の to connect them to other nouns, and the additional particle provides additional information, such as movement. 君への手紙 = a letter to you; 君の手紙 = your letter (a letter written by you?); 君へ手紙 = a letter to you (but these nouns need to be connected with の).

And は makes the word before it into the topic of conversation, highlighting it in contrast to another thing. も, on the other hand includes.

This website provides a pretty simple rundown: https://www.wasabi-jpn.com/japanese-grammar/combined-particles/