No time to return to headquarters with 本部
Kanji Explanation: Sections and departments with 部
Akari encounters Woody while he’s out on a delivery run. He stopped to show off for some kids, but in the process, he seems to have lost his city map, and he has a terrible sense of direction. Akari asks if he has the delivery addresses, which he says he does.
- ウッディー:
- 「でも 本部まで地図を取りに戻る時間がないのだぁ！」
- “But I don't have time to go back to headquarters to get a map!!”
Key Points
本部 = headquarters
本部 uses 部 in the sense of an organizational division or office.
In this scene it means the company’s central base, so “headquarters” fits naturally.
まで marks the destination
本部まで means “as far as headquarters” or more naturally here “to headquarters”.
The line is about physically going back there to retrieve the map.
地図を取りに戻る = go back to get the map
〜に戻る here expresses returning for the purpose of getting something.
The fuller idea is “return to headquarters in order to pick up the map”.