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TOKYO-YOKOHAMA

TOKYO FIRE INSURANCE Co., Nishi Gashi,

Nihonbashi-ku

Takei Marimaso, president

Sahaino Daikichi, managing director Nagamatoz Atsusuke,

do

TOKYO SHOGYO KWAIGISHO (Tokyo Cham-

ber of Commerce), Yurakucho President-S. Shibusawa

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Izayemon Amano, Rokuro Hara, Hiko-

taro Abe, directors Hisoka Mayejima, Ilkezo Wakao,

Eichi Shibusawa, auditors

TSUKIJI DISPENSARY,

Tsukiji

A. W. Thompson

18, Akashi-cho,

Vice-Presidents-B. Nakano, K. Okura WHITNEY, W. NORTON, M.D., Akasaka Hos-

Secretary-G. Hagiwara

TOYO KISEN KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Steam-

ship (company), 18, Kita Shimboi-cho Nihonbashi-ku

Soichiro Asano, president

Shuzo Tsukahara, vice-president

pital, 17, Hikawa-cho, and 60, Main St., Yokohama

WITSCHI, RUD., Baker, Aerated Water Manufacturer, Storekeeper and Com- mission Agent, 9,Odawara-cho,Sanchome, Tsukiji

YOKOHAMA

Yokohama is the principal Treaty port of Japan, and was opened to foreign trade in July, 1859. It is situated on the Bay of Yokohama, a sinall bay on the weertsn side of the Gulf of Yedo, in lat. 35 deg. 26 min. 11 sec. N., and long. 139 deg. 39 min. 20 sec., in the island of Honshiu, and is distant about eighteen miles from the capital, with which it is connected by a line of railway. The town having sprung up from a poor fishing village only since the site was selected for a treaty port instead of the little town of Kanagawa possesses few attractions for the visitor. The scenery around, however, is hilly and pleasing, and on clear days the snow-crowned summit and graceful outlines of Fuji-san, a volcanic mountain 12,370 feet high-celebrated in Japanese literature and depicted on innumerable native works of art-is most distinctly visible, though some seventy-five miles distant. Yokohama is compactly built of low houses with tiled roofs. The town is divided into two nearly equal parts, the western half being occupied by what was known, before the abolition of extraterritoriality, as the foreign settlement. Beyond the plain on which the town is built rises a sort of semicircle of low hills called "The Bluff," which is thickly dotted with handsome foreign villas and dwelling-houses in various styles of architecture, all standing in pretty gardens. From these dwellings charming prospects are obtainable. Along the water-front runs a good road called the Bund, on which, facing the water, stand many of the principal houses and hotels and the United Club. The streets are fairly paved, kerbed, and drained. There are Anglican, French Catholic, Union Protestant, and several native Mission Churches in the Settlement. A fine Cricket and Recrea- tion Ground exists in the Settlement, and there are well laid out Public Gardens on the Bluff. There is a

There is a fairly good Race Course situated about two miles from the Settlement. A good Boating Club also exists, which has provided facilities for deep sea bathing. The Public Hall, containing a theatre and assembly rooms, neatly built of brick, is situated at the top of Camp Hill, and was opened in 1885. The chief public buildings in the native town are the Kencho, opposite the British Consulate, the Town Hall, which has a clock tower, and the Custom House. The Railway Station is also a creditable structure, being a well designed and commodious terminus. On the 12th August, 1899, a disastrous fire occurred in the Iseza Kicho district, in which some seven- teen streets were swept by the flames, the number of houses destroyed being 3,237. The town is now in the enjoyment of an excellent water supply, large Waterworks having been completed in 1887. The harbour is much exposed, but two breakwaters, of an aggregate length of 12,000 feet, have been built and are so projected as to practically enclose the whole of the anchorage, leaving an entrance 650 feet wide between their extremities. There is a pier 2,000 feet long at which vessels may load or discharge. A graving dock was opened on the 26th April, 1897. It is built of large blocks of granite and is 351 feet on the blocks, its length from the outside of the entrance to the head is 419 feet 10 inches and from the outside caisson to the head 400 feet 3 inches.