Vocabulary

Kitakyushu (city)

Fukuoka (city, prefecture)

Kawasaki (city)

Sapporo (city in Hokkaido)

Hiroshima (city, prefecture)

Sendai (city in Miyagi)

Chiba (city, prefecture)

Saitama (city, prefecture)

Shizuoka (city, prefecture)

Niigata (city, prefecture)

Hamamatsu (city)

small; little; few

(not) anywhere; nowhere

route map (for buses, trains, etc.)

terrible; dreadful

a few hours; several hours; a couple of hours

several minutes; a few minutes

supplement

unaltered; unedited; unamended; uncensored; unexpurgated

first challenge; first try

hot pot stew made with offal, vegetables and (often) miso

tattoo (esp. one in a style other than traditional Japanese)

attractive body; nice-looking body

customer

customer satisfaction

before very long; soon; someday; one of these days; sooner or later

trifles; minor details

someone

this sort of; this type of

collection of cases; collection of instances

whitening (esp. of teeth)

and (so); (and) then; because of which; in addition to that

bus tour

an instant; a split second; no time at all; time of an "ah!"

want to do

search criteria

probably not; probably won't; probably doesn't; probably isn't

won't (hasn't, isn't, doesn't, etc.)

shall I?; shall we?

a little