Konbini

Quick meaning: Konbini is a noun meaning A convenience store in Japan.

Meaning

A convenience store in Japan.

Example Sentences

One-stop shops for everything, from clothes to make-up to household items, konbinis are open round the clock as “life infrastructure” (an official classification by the Japanese government), offering services that are vital to daily life.

Just as it is almost impossible to walk through a Japanese town or city without encountering a vending machine, konbini are a fixture of the urban landscape, their brightly lit frontages holding out promise of round-the-clock sustenance and polite, if functional, customer service.

Word Forms

• konbinis

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include koban, minimart, bodega, cornerstore, nonstop, c-store.

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