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A crossed pair of truncheons inside a circle.
Also known as: Kōban symbol, Police box mark, Crossed truncheons
A kōban is a neighbourhood police post, a small staffed building rather than a station, and the map symbol is two crossed jitte — the forked truncheon carried by Edo-period officers. A circle around the symbol raises it to a full police station.
Denotes a police box on a Japanese topographic map, drawn as two crossed truncheons; the same symbol within a circle denotes a full police station.
Contexts: Maps
Depicts crossed jitte, the forked iron truncheons carried by Edo-period law officers, which is why the symbol has no resemblance to any modern equipment.
Contexts: Maps
Marks an institution with no close equivalent in most countries: a small permanently staffed neighbourhood post rather than a station.
Contexts: Maps
Two short bars crossed at their centres in an X, each with a small hook near one end, the pair sometimes enclosed in a circle.
The same crossed truncheons inside a circle mark a full police station rather than a kōban.