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KYOTO HOTEL

KYOTO-KOBE

KYOTO KU SAIBANSHO (Kyoto Local Court) Takeya-machi, Senbon-higashi- iru, Chikaracho

KYOTO MUNICIPAL ASSEMBLY (Kyoto Shikai) Oike-dori, Tera-machi; Telephs. 4401 to 4407 (Kami)

Kawakami Kiyoshi, chairman Kawahashi Toyojiro, vice-chairman

KYOTO MUNICIPAL OFFICE-Oike Tera-

machi; Telephs. 4401 to 4408 (Kami)

Mabuchi Taitaro, mayor

K. Imamura, deputy mayor

Y. Taku,

T. Gotoh, treasurer

do.

KYOTO UNIVERSITY, IMPERIAL - Teleph.

980 (Kami)

Torasaburo Araki, president

495

MIYAKO HOTEL-Sanjo Awata, Kyoto; Telephs. 421 and 328 (Kami); Tel. Ad: Miyako

M. Hamaguchi, manager

NIPPON SEKIJUJISHA (Red Cross Society

-Shin - machi, Shimochoja

Sagaru; Teleph. 2901 (Nishijin)

T. Ikematsu, president

T. Shirane, vice-president

machi,

POLICE DEPARTMENT-Telephs. 201 and

2700 (Kami)

TOKUSHI KANGO FUJINKAI, Ladies

Volunteer Nurses' Association

Murakumo Nichijio, priestess Madame Waka Bayashi, president

KOBE

Kobe was until 1892 the foreign port of the adjoining town of Hyogo and was opened to foreign trade in 1868, but in 1899 the two towns were incorporated under the title of Kobe City, when the City Municipal Law was put into force. The reclamation of the bed of the Minatogawa River in 1910 and the extension of the tram- way service have resulted in the disappearance of the old boundary-line between Kobe and Hyogo. Hyogo, therefore, is now merely one of the administrative sections of Kobe. The port is finely situated on the Idzumi-nada, at the gate of the far-famed Inland Sea. The harbour is good and affords safe anchorage for vessels of almost any size, but to extend the facilities for loading and discharging an extensive scheme of harbour improvement was begun in 1907. The town faces the land-locked water covered with white sails, while behind, at a distance of about a mile, rises a range of picturesque and lofty hills, some of which attain an altitude of about 3,000 feet, and the steep sides of which are partly covered with pines. On one of these hills, Rokkosan, are a number of foreign residences, the place having become a favourite summer resort. The summit of this hill has been well prepared for the purpose, several miles of excellent paths making walking on the hills easy and enjoyable. Among the attractions of Rokkosan are excellent golf links. Kobe stretches for some five miles along the strip of land between the hills and the water, and is rapidly extending in the direction of Ósaka, which is connected with it by the Hanshin Electric Railway and the Hanshin Kyuko (express) Electric Railway. What was at one time known as the foreign settlement at Kobe is well laid out; the streets are broad and clean, and lighted with gas and electricity. The Bund has a fine stone embankment and extends the whole length of the foreign business quarter, but the extensive reclamations in the harbour tend to destroy its character. Within the last few years the Japanese have bought many of the Settlement lots and have erected large offices of five or six stories, which have greatly improved the city. The railway terminus is at the other end of Kobe, where it meets Hyogo, and there are extensive carriage works adjoining the station, but the foreign section of the city is best reached from Sannomiya Station. There are three Clubs-the Kobe Club (British, but including members of all nationali- ties), the Masonic Club, and the Oriental Club (Indian). At Mirume the K. R. & A. C. have a fine boathouse and large lawn for all kinds of sports. The Union Protestant Church and a French Roman Catholic Church are in the Settlement. An English Episcopal Church, All Saints, was opened in 1898 on the hill behind, and