railway station; train station; staging post on a highway (in pre-modern Japan); counter for railway stations and bus stations
large number (of); many; majority
customer traffic; customers; custom
correspondence (to); equivalence; suitability; coordination; dealing with; coping with
in order to; for the purpose of; must; should
as it is bound to (happen); following the natural course; though possible as it may be
deep inside; innermost place
close to the wall; alongside the wall
every last one; one and all; from A to Z; as soon as; right after; no sooner (than)
Viking; smorgasbord; buffet; smorgasbord (of things); hodge-podge
form (as opposed to substance); formality; method; system; format; mode
to stuff into; to jam; to shorten; to move closer together; to reduce (spending); to conserve; to focus intently on
demi-glace (type of brown sauce)
teriyaki (meat or fish marinated in sweet soy sauce and broiled)
to yield to temptation; to succumb
scattering; leaflets; sushi rice in a box or bowl with a variety of ingredients sprinkled on top; writing in an irregular hand
this way (of doing); this method; this sort (of thing); this type
revival (e.g. musical); come-back; restoration; rebirth; resurrection
nature (of a person); sex; gender; sex (i.e. sexual attraction, activity, etc.); gender; -ty
recommendation; advice; suggestion; encouragement
to mix; to stir; to blend
dango; dumpling (usu. sweet); ball-shaped object; something round; lump; group
frying; fried food; aburaage; thin deep-fried slices of tofu
tuber; taro; yokel; bumpkin; dud; worthless thing
famous product; special product; speciality; specialty
soup made from boiling leftover fish scraps; fishhead soup
daikon (variety of large white Oriental radish, Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus); ham actor
carrot (Daucus carota); Asian ginseng (Panax ginseng)
taro (Colocasia esculenta); dasheen; eddo
mincing; cutting; rapping (a percussion instrument); beating; shredded tobacco; interval
head; chief; merit; strong point; superiority; major
Welsh onion (Allium fistulosum); green onion; spring onion
made of aluminum (aluminium)
northern country; northern provinces; northern regions; northland
face; looks; vestiges; trace
grand; magnificent; majestic; great; sublime
comfortably; peacefully; with one's mind at ease; (growing) quickly
Japanese scallop (Patinopecten yessoensis); Yesso scallop
cooking, esp. frying or stir-frying; heating; tempering; -ware
cotton plant (Gossypium spp.); batting; wadding; padding
nonexistent; nil; none; nothing (at all); bugger-all