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TOKYO

after each conflagration. But as the city is in a transition state, it necessarily presents many strange anomalies. Side by side with lofty stone buildings stand rows of rude wooden houses. As with the buildings so with the people; while the mass still wear the native dress, numbers appear in European costume. The soldiers and police are dressed in uniform on the Western model.

The environs of Tokyo are very picturesque and offer a great variety of pleasant walks or rides. Foreigners will find much to interest them in the country round. The finest scenery is at the northern and western sides of the city, where the country is surrounded by beautiful hills, from which there is a distant view of the noble mountains of Hakone, while beyond rises in solitary grandeur the towering peak of Fuji-sang, covered with snow the greater part of the year. The population of Tokyo, according to the official census of 1894, was 1,303,876; this does not include the suburbs. foreign residents in June, 1891 numbered 807, of whom 214 were British, 204 American, and 133 German. Many of these residents are in Government or Japanese employ.

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The native Press is represented by more than a hundred newspapers, several of which are dailies. Tkere ars 1,225 schools of different classes, including one university A large and handsome hotel designed for foreigners and called the Imperial Hotel, was opened in 1890. There is also a first class hotel called the Metropole, under foreign management, worked in connection with the Club Hotel of Yokohama.

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