kuukou de kakariin ni nimotu wo mite moraimasita.

Vて + もらう means to receive the favor of someone doing something.

So:

• 見る = to look at, check
• 見て = the -te form of 見る
• もらいました = past polite form of もらう

Together, 見てもらいました means:

• I had someone look at it
• Someone looked at it for me
• I got someone to check it

In this sentence, it implies the speaker benefited from the staff member checking the luggage.

Because もらう attaches to the -te form of a verb.

The pattern is:

• Verb in -te form + もらう

So:

• 見る → 見て
• 見て + もらいました

You cannot say 見ましたもらいました.
The -te form is required to connect the two verbs.

In Vて もらう, the person who performs the action is usually marked with に.

So in:

• 係員に荷物を見てもらいました

the 係員 is the person who did the checking.

That means:

• 係員に = by/from the staff member in the sense of receiving their action

This is different from English word order, where we might say:

• I had a staff member check my luggage
• I got the staff member to look at my luggage

In Japanese, に marks the doer of the action in this pattern.

で marks the place where an action happens.

So:

• 空港で = at the airport

This tells you the location of the checking.

Compare:

• 空港で荷物を見てもらいました = I had my luggage checked at the airport
• 空港に行きました = I went to the airport

So で is for the location of an action, while に often marks direction, destination, time, or the person receiving/doing something depending on the structure.

を marks the direct object of the verb.

Here, the thing being checked is 荷物.

So:

• 荷物を見て = look at/check the luggage

Even though the full predicate is 見てもらいました, the core action is still 見る, and 荷物 is what is being looked at.

In this context, 見る usually means more than just casually looking.

With luggage, it often means:

• to inspect
• to check
• to examine

So 荷物を見てもらいました is very naturally understood as:

• I had my luggage checked
• A staff member inspected my luggage

Context tells you that this is not just someone glanced at my bag.

The subject is omitted, which is very common in Japanese.

From the grammar and natural context, the subject is most likely:

• I
• or possibly we, depending on the situation

So the full idea is something like:

• I had a staff member check my luggage at the airport

Japanese often leaves out subjects when they are obvious from context.

Yes. てもらう often carries the nuance that the speaker received a favor, service, or benefit from someone’s action.

So this sentence does not sound like a cold, purely factual passive statement. It suggests:

• the staff member did the checking
• the speaker received that action as a service/help

That is why 見てもらいました feels different from something like a plain passive expression.

They are quite different in nuance.

• 荷物を見てもらいました = I had someone check my luggage / someone checked it for me
• 荷物が見られました = the luggage was seen/looked at

The passive form does not naturally express the idea of receiving a helpful action. It may sound neutral, awkward, or even imply something unwanted depending on context.

For services or helpful actions done by a person, Vて もらう is often the more natural choice.

Yes. Japanese word order is flexible as long as the particles stay correct.

These are all possible:

• 空港で係員に荷物を見てもらいました。
• 係員に空港で荷物を見てもらいました。
• 荷物を空港で係員に見てもらいました。

The most natural order depends on what the speaker wants to emphasize, but the particles:

• で
• に
• を

tell you what each noun is doing.

They are:

• 空港 → くうこう
• で → で
• 係員 → かかりいん
• に → に
• 荷物 → にもつ
• を → を (pronounced お)
• 見て → みて
• もらいました → もらいました

So the whole sentence is read:

くうこう で かかりいん に にもつ を みて もらいました。

It can imply that, yes, but the grammar focuses more on the resulting service received than on the request itself.

If you want to emphasize the act of asking, you might use something like:

• 係員に荷物を見てくださいと頼みました。

But 係員に荷物を見てもらいました emphasizes:

• the checking was actually done
• the speaker received that action from the staff member

So in natural English, depending on context, it could be translated as:

• I had a staff member check my luggage
• I got the staff to check my luggage
• The staff checked my luggage for me