Japanese Streets.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 31, 31 July 1902, Page 20

Japanese Streets.

In Japan houses are rot numbered according t'> their sequence, but accordi/'g to the or.ier ( ,t the election. That is to say, No 73 may adj'nn No. 1, wilh No. 102 on the opposite side. No. 2is probably a uiilo down the street. The city of Tokio is made up of 1,330 stret 1*".1 *". in which .'.re 318 320 houses. The=>e houses are divided up into 15 wards If a street pas^e*> through more than one ward the hous' y are numb red acconiing to the wnrds in which they sre ; th-it if, a Htrtet p^sding through six watdn will po-se s six number one . It v ould be like hunting for a nee" 1 c in a hayet.ick for a stronger to rry io iind a number in TiAio, but n jinnkeha driver knows the po-itiun and number of a!mo~t every one of the houses in Tokio. He is ub eto do this by having made his business the one study of his life.