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A small open circle marking a public office.
Also known as: Kankosho mark, Public office mark
Denotes a government office on a Japanese topographic map — a national or prefectural body that has no symbol of its own.
Marks a public office on a GSI topographic sheet where no more specific symbol applies.
Contexts: Maps
Works as the residual case of the public-building family, which is why it carries no interior device: everything that has one is something more particular.
Contexts: Maps
A small circle drawn in plain outline with nothing inside it, the least marked of the public-building symbols.
A doubled circle marks a city hall. This plain single circle is the general public-office mark.
A circle enclosing a smaller filled disc is a town or village office. This mark is a plain circle with nothing inside it.