MOJI AND SHIMONOSEKI
These two towns are situated one on each side of Shimonoseki Straits, the western entrance of the Inland Sea-the former on the south and the latter on the north side. The interests of both towns, so far as shipping is concerned, are identical. Shimonoseki is under the jurisdiction of Yamaguchi, 51 miles away, and Moji under that of Fukuoka, 47 miles away. The foreign merchants have their offices on the side that suits their own convenience, but the principal Japanese banks and shipping offices are at Moji. There is a fairly strong tidal current through the Straits, but the anchorage, which is at Moji, is only affected by an eddy, and good holding ground is general. Steamers entering from the West can get pilots at Rokuren Light, where boats have to stop in any case for medical inspection and harbour- master's instructions. From the eastward this inspection takes place at Hesaki Light. Means of transport are good. Liners run
run regularly to all foreign ordinary ports of call; and, while from Shimonoseki the Sanyo Railway taps the north, from Moji the Kiushiu Railway taps the south of Japan. The Shimonoseki Station Hotel, which for many years provided good accommodation for foreigners, was destroyed by fire in July, 1922; but a new thoroughly up to date hotel has been rebuilt on the former site and was opened on the 1st April, 1924. The Imperial Railway Department has also four large ferry boats plying between Moji and the Shimonoseki Station, while a ten-minute ferry plies between the usual landing places at Moji and Shimonoseki. There is a project on foot to construct a tunnel under the Straits. Both towns have municipal waterworks, are lit by electricity, and are connected by telephone with the principal towns, from Kagoshima and Nagasaki, in the south, to Tokyo in the north-east. It should be specially noted that photographing and sketching are forbidden within a radius of ten miles round Shimonoseki and Moji on land and sea. The law in this respect is strictly enforced and ignorance is not accepted as an
excuse.
DIRECTORY
BABCOCK & WILCOX, LTD., Patent Water Tube Boilers and Auxiliary Plant-3102, 2-chome, Uchihama-cho Moji; Teleph. 689; Tel. Ad: Babcock
CONSULATES
GREAT BRITAIN (Consulate at Shimo-
noseki); Teleph. 705 (Shimonoseki) Consular Agent-R. McKenzie
NORWAY
Vice-Consul-R. McKenzie
PORTUGAL Dairi-ku, Moji; Telephs. 866
and Long Distance 1305
Vice-Consul-Horace Nutter
SWEDEN -Shimonoseki
Vice-Consul-R. McKenzie
CUSTOM HOUSE
Director-S. Izumi
Controller-Y. Fukata
Chief Examiner and Chief Appraiser
-S. Nakamoto
Examiner and Appraiser-C. Miyake Chief, Accounts Office-S. Noguchi Chief, Shimonoseki (E.)—K. Suematsu
Do.
(West)-T. Uyeno
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & Co. (JAPAN), LTD.-2, Karato machi, Shimonoseki; Teleph. 1543; P.O. Box 3 (Higashi); Tel. Ad: Mackinnons
Agencies
Peninsular and Oriental S. N. Co. British India S. N. Co., Ld.
Eastern and Australian S.S. Co., Ld. North China Insurance Co., Ld.
MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA, LTD.-Tel. Ad: Mitsui; Codés: A.B.C. 5th edn. and improved, Al, Scott's and Bentley's
S. Hasegawa, manager
M. Kawazu, assist. do.
Agencies
Hamburg-Amerike Linie Norddeutscher Lloyd