Illustration: Seen from an upper apartment balcony, one compact Japanese city block is clearly enclosed by streets on all four sides. Inside it stand a small apartment building, several narrow houses, a neighborhood bakery and a shared courtyard with bicycles.

ブロック

burokku

city block

Example sentences

銀行ぎんこうは３ブロック先さきです。
The bank is three blocks away.
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この通とおりを３ブロック行いきなさい。
Go down this street three blocks.
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２ブロック先さきまで歩あるき、左ひだりへ曲まがりなさい。
Walk two blocks, and turn left.
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