The diary of Edmund Heller, October 9, 1917-January 12, 1918 : covering his return trip from the First Asiatic Expedition led by Roy Chapman Andrews of the American Museum of Natural History
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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