At 11:56 PM 1/30/2004 +0900, Jourdan M. Bickham wrote:
[snip]

I will be staying at the Azabu City
Hotel for the next several days and it is vitally important that you
..."

Sailor Moon takes place in Minato-ku, like Ranma takes place in
Nerima-ku. "Azabu" means "district" and "Juuban" means "tenth" -- the
tenth district of Minato-ku. This area of Minato-ku (in the real world)
is rather upscale. You can see a brief outdoor shot of it in the extra
features portion of one of the Escaflowne DVDs.

Ok.. red light.
1. There is no Azabu City, Virginia
2. Azabu-Juuban is in Shibuya-ku.  I thought SM takes place in Azabu
(Shibuya-ku) not Minato-ku
3. Minato-ku upscale?  I suppose there is a neighborhood or two.  It's
mostly office buildings though... upscale tends to go to Azabu-Jujuban,
Hiroo, Meguro or Ebisu.
4. Azabu does not mean "district"  Your kanji are entirely wrong.  Azabu
means "canvas // hemp // hemp cloth // linen cloth " (from alc.co.jp).

So "Azabu City" is like saying "District City"...it doesn't make sense.

Regardless of the difference in meaning, you are right... Azabu City is
totally incorrect.  Azabu-Juuban is a district within Shibuya Ward, Tokyo
Metropolian.

You get full points on the Azabu kanji meaning - linen/flax cloth being the 
literal translation (once I was able to locate the proper radical index 
values).

... but you *really* should have consulted a map, as Azabu-Juuban is about 
as smack-dab in the middle of Minato-ku as you can get. :)

I've already addressed the real-life existence of Azabu City Hotel in 
another post.  However, here's a few links for the Google-impaired:

http://gojapan.about.com/library/hotel/bltokyo_low_azabucityhotel.htm
http://www.minato-ala.net/sightseeing/ek_guide/hotel.html
http://directory.japantoday.com/biz.asp?action=home&pid=266
http://www.nvv.co.jp/gif/e.minato.html

Thanks for catching the Kanji mistake!

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