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November 7, 1917
The Tenyo Maru still remains stuck in the sand at Saratoga Point, 12 miles below
Yokohama. Another fine, clear, bracing day made sightseeing a pleasure. I took a
walk along the bluff and down to Mississippi Bay. There are Japanese houses and rice
fields all the way after the European houses on the Bluff are passed. I discovered
today the chief peculiarity of Yokohama's street or house nomenclature. The foreign
section about the Grand Hotel is called Yamachita-cho and comprises some 250 or 300
streets. Each building square in this large section is numbered without consideration
of the streets and without duplication, running from 1 to 277. Our address, usually
given as No. 70 Yokohama, is thus sufficient and no street is appended usually. The
bluff section of foreign houses is numbered similarly, but distinct.