青線

あおせんaosen

noun

  1. blue line
  2. area around a red-light district where illegal prostitution occurred (marked on police maps by a blue line; 1940s-1956)
  3. non-legal public waterway (denoted by a blue line on cadastral maps; sometimes no longer physically existing)

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