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the center of Tokyo prefecture

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Kokubunji, 2024.02.24

I've had a stab at working out where the center of Tokyo prefecture is. Short of using a real geographic information system, I've tried eye-balling a weighted north-south and mated that to a calculated center between the eastern-most and western-most points in the roughly rectangular shape. It's about two kilometers west of our home.

rand()m quote

Society is indeed a contract... [the state] is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

—Edmund Burke