Agencies
Java-China-Japan Line
YOKOHAMA-HAKODATE
Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatschappij Stoomvaart Maatschappij "Nederland' Rotterdamsche Lloyd Holland-East Asia Line
The Netherlands Insurance Co.
Winkler & Co., Exporters and Im- porters-256, Yamashita-cho; Tel. Ad: Winkler
do.
F. Fachtmann, partner Gustau Selig,
Werner Westphahn
Otto Werner | Miss E. Laurin
YANGTSZE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION, LTD.— 75B, Yamashita-cho; Teleph. 221; P.O. Box 208; Tel. Ad: Yangtsze; Code: Bentley's. Kobe Office: c/o 28, Harima- machi
C. Bewley Bird, branch manager E. L. Hope (Kobe), do.
C. R. Davidge do.
YOKOHAMA NURSERY CO., LTD., Exporters of Lily Bulbs, Plants, Seeds, etc.-21, Nakamura, Bluff; Teleph. 509; Tel. Ad: Uyekigumi
445-
YOKOHAMA DISPENSARY (Goshi Kaisha), Chemists and Druggists, Aerated Waters
M. Komatsu, managing director Y. Komatsu, partner
S. Komatsu G. Fukasawa
S. Ishii
M. Nemoto
YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, LTD.-83, Minami Nakadori, 5-chome; Telephs. 3131 and 3231 (Honkyoku)
Kenji Kodama, president K. Takeuchi, vice-president N. Otsuka, manager
ZELLWEGER & Co., LTD., E., Raw Silk Merchants-90B, Yamashita-cho; Teleph.. 517 (Honkyoku)
ZEMMA WORKS, LTD., Manufacturers of Machine Tools and Woodworking Machinery, Steam Engines, Steam and Hot Water Boilers-Isogo-machi; Teleph. 3-3400; Tel. Ad: Zemma
H. E. Metcalf, managing director F. G. Britton, manager
T. W. Chisholm | 500 Japanese
HAKODATE
This, the most northerly of the old treaty ports of Japan, is situated in the south of Yezo, in the Straits of Tsugaru, which divide that island from Honshiu. The port lies in latitude 41 deg. 47 min. 8 sec. N., and longitude 140 deg. 45 min. 34 sec. E., and the harbour is nearly land-locked. The town clusters at the foot and on the slope of a bold rock known to foreigners as Hakodate Head, about 1,000 feet in height, which is within a fortified area to which the public are not admitted. The surrounding country is hilly, volcanic, and striking, but the town itself possesses few attractions. There are some Public Gardens at the eastern end of the town which contain a small but interest- ing Museum. Waterworks for supplying the town with pure water were completed in 1889. The climate of Hakodate is healthy and bracing. The hottest month is August, but the thermometer there rarely rises above 90 degrees Fahr.; in the winter it some- times sinks to 10 degrees Fahr. or even less, the minimum in an average winter being about 12 degrees Fahr. The mean temperature throughout the year is about 48 degrees. The population of Hakodate has been increasing rapidly for many years and is now (1925) 163,972.
The foreign trade of the port is small, but has been steadily growing during the last few years, mainly owing to the development of the Kamtschatka salmon fisheries, for which Hakodate is the principal entrepôt. The agricultural resources of Yezo have been considerably developed. The rich pasture lands are well adapted for breeding cattle and horses. Beans, peas and timber are exported, and sugar is produced from sugar beets. In the valuable and extensive fisheries on the coast and in the surrounding seas, however, the chief exports of the future from Hakodate are to be looked for. In- creasing quantities of dried fish and seaweed are exported annually, mostly to China. The mineral resources of Yezo are large. Washing for gold dust has been carried on