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(ほんぶ)まで地図(ちず)を取(と)りに戻(もど)る時間(じかん)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(ほんぶ) = headquarters
- 本部(ほんぶ) 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(ほんぶ)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(ちず)を取(と)りに戻(もど)る = “go back to get the map”
- 〜に戻(もど)る here expresses returning for the purpose of getting something.
- The fuller idea is “return to headquarters in order to pick up the map”.