Illustration: At the entrance to a Japanese residential neighborhood, a bicycle courier traces a continuous course on a simple map without lettering. The map’s canal, footbridge, railway crossing, and apartment courtyard match landmarks visible along the streets ahead.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

ルート

ruuto

route, path

Example sentences

  1. 電車でんしゃのほかにバスを使用しようするルートもある。

    Besides trains, there are routes that use buses.

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  2. それはボストンまでの最短さいたんルートです。

    It’s the shortest route to Boston.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 登山とざんルートは大おおきく三みっつある。

    There are mainly three climbing routes.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

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