Just a little did you know fact...

Imagine you are standing on a street corner in New York. A Japanese tourist comes up to you and asks you what the 'Block' was called. You would admittedly look at him strangely and tell him that where he was was at the corner of 5th and Main. "No, but i want to know what the Block is called" he repeats. You assure him that Blocks don't have names, roads have names, the Blocks are the unnamed spaces between the named roads.

Interestingly , if you found yourself lost in Japan and you went up to a Japanese man and asked him what the road you were on was called he would look at you very confused. "Well this is Block 19 and that is Block 18...?" he tells you. You see in Japan, Blocks are named, and the roads are the unnamed spaces between the named Blocks. So a typical address in Japan is House 23, Block 19, District 3 etc..

Also if you were a post man in Japan it can sometimes be very confusing where houses are as they don't follow any real number system, at least not as we know it.

In Japan the first house built on a plot of land would be house number 1. Then the second development would be house number 2 (house number 2 doesn't have to be near house number one at all, it can be the complete opposite side of the block).

Sometimes we assume that different cultures act, think, do the same things as we do. I think sometimes we take that for granted.

- Jamie

(By-the-way, if you don't believe me google map it)