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Transcription
I discovered today the chief peculiarity of
Yokohama's street or home nomenclature.
The foreign section about the Grand Hotel
is called Yamma chita-cho & comprises
some 25 to 30 streets. Each building square
in this large section is numbered without
consideration of the streets & without duplication
running from 1 to 277. An address usually
given No. 78 Yokohama is thus sufficient
the street is appended usually. The Pleaft
section of foreign home, is numbered similarly but distinct