Eighteenth Week

FRANTE SUPERMARKET

Since I have a placement test tomorrow, this week I stayed home and studied... and studied and studied.  But I made time to go to this supermarket I had heard of, which supposedly sells foreign products. It's not very far, just a few bus stops away. 

 Get on the same bus to Hongo station as always, only you need to get off at this stop.  It's the one right after Gokuraku.  Pay attention to the bus stops while on the bus and don't forget to click the button to get off.

 The bus will leave you right in front of this apartment building.

 You'll need to walk to the left, towards the street light.

 At the street light turn left.

 You're going to cross.

 That building straight across is Frante.

 Just follow the building.

 See the little flags say Frante.

 There is the entrance.

 There is also a McDonald's for if you get a craving.  There two other McDonald's in the area, but I think this is the most convenient, since it's just a few bus stops away.

 In front of Frante there is a movie rental place too.  I haven't actually checked it out, though, so I don't know how it works. Most Japanese stores do not allow you to take photos inside the store, so I couldn't take photos. But Frante wasn't what I was expecting.  It does have some foreign items I haven't seen in Aoki or Max Valu, but it is a mostly Japanese supermarket.  The variety of foreign items, at least Western ones, is still limited. 

To get home come back the way you came, only this time go straight across the light.

 Keep going straight for a bit.

 Go past the blue cleaners.

 And past the pink cleaners.

 Past the pink building that has a cafe.

 Right in front of this electronics store, I think it's an electronics store, is the bus stop.

 There is the bus stop.

Now in this bus stop, two bus lines pass by, so careful you don't get on the wrong bus.  You need to get on the bus to 猪高緑地.  It'll say it in front of the bus.