jitenshaten o otozurete, joushatekioushinchou o kakuninshita sueni, tsuukinyoujitensha ni kimeta.

direct object particle

Breakdown of jitenshaten o otozurete, joushatekioushinchou o kakuninshita sueni, tsuukinyoujitensha ni kimeta.

• 訪おとずれる: to visit
• 確認かくにんする: to check

Questions & Answers about jitenshaten o otozurete, joushatekioushinchou o kakuninshita sueni, tsuukinyoujitensha ni kimeta.

Why is 自転車店 marked with を? I thought を usually marks a direct object, not a place.

In Japanese, some verbs that involve visiting or leaving a place still use を.

Here, 訪れる means to visit, and the place being visited is marked with を:

• 自転車店を訪れる = to visit a bicycle shop

So even though 自転車店 is a place, it is still the grammatical object of 訪れる.

This is similar to other verbs such as:

• 公園を散歩する = to stroll through a park
• 家を出る = to leave the house

A learner might expect に because English often uses to or at with places, but Japanese grammar follows the verb’s pattern, not the English preposition.

What does 訪れて do here?

訪れて is the て-form of 訪れる.

The て-form is often used to connect actions in sequence. In this sentence, it links the first action to what comes next:

• 自転車店を訪れて、
• having visited a bicycle shop, ...
• more naturally: visited a bicycle shop and ...

So the sentence flows like this:

1. visited a bicycle shop
2. checked the recommended rider height
3. eventually decided on a commuter bicycle

The て-form does not by itself show tense clearly; the tense is usually understood from the whole sentence and the final verb.