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THE EXTENT OF TOKIO. 115
CHAPTER Vin.
SIGHTS IN THE EASTERN CAPITAL OF JAPAN.
^I"^0 see the wliole of Tokio is a matter of no small moment, as the area
-L of the city is very great. There seems to have been no stint of
gronnd when the place was laid out, and in riding through it you find
whole fields and gardens so widely spread that you can readily imagine
yourself to be in the rural districts, and are rather surprised when told
that yon are yet in the city limits. The city is divided into two unerpial
portions by the Sumida Kiver, and over this river is the Nihon Baslii, or
VIEW OF TOKIO, FROM THE SOUTH.
Nihon Eridge, which is often called the centre of Japan, for the reason
that all the roads were formerly measured from it. It has the same rela-
tion to Japan as the famous "London Stone" has to England, or, rather,
as the London Stone had a hundred years ago.
From the railway station our travellers went to the Nihon Bashi, in
order to begin their journey fi-om the centre of the empire. A more