UK-style ‘ground floor’ to be abolished at Japan’s Takarazuka city hall after complaints – The Mainichi

3 comments

1. That must be confusing.

   Anyway, I bloody love **TAKARAZUKA!**

2. >In Japan and other countries like the United States, building floors are generally called, from the **ground up**, the first floor, second floor, third floor, and so on. Meanwhile, the practice of referring to the first floor as the “ground floor” and the second, third and upper floors as the first, second and beyond is said to be often seen in Britain and other countries

   Emphasis mine.

   Do people struggle with the concept of zero?

3. Sorry Brits, but I stand by my assertion that your way of labeling floors is dumb. The ground floor *is* the first floor. Ground floor because ground level and first floor because it’s the *first* one. It’s not the zeroth floor. If there were such a thing, it’d just be the ground.

   If you saw a three story house, would you say it only has two floors? Of course not, it has *three* and the top one of those three is the *third*, not the second.