Alleys

Watch your step in dark alleys.

The northernmost part of the city is a maze of alleys.

In Beijing, hutongs are alleys formed by lines of siheyuans, the traditional courtyard residences.

In the cities the quarters for the wealthier classes are not so sharply defined as with us, though the love for pleasant outlooks and beautiful scenery tends to enhance the value of certain districts, and consequently to bring together the wealthier classes. In nearly all the cities, however, you will find the houses of the wealthy in the immediate vicinity of the habitations of the poorest. In Tokio one may find streets, or narrow alleys, lined with a continuous row of the cheapest shelters; and here dwell the poorest people. Though squalid and dirty as such places appear to the Japanese, they are immaculate in comparison with the unutterable filth and misery of similar quarters in nearly all the great cities of Christendom. Certainly a rich man in Japan would not, as a general thing, buy up the land about his house to keep the poorer classes at a distance, for the reason that their presence would not be objectionable, since poverty in Japan is not associated with the impossible manners of a similar class at home.

Tourists now fill the narrow streets and alleys of the old centre of town.

The narrow streets and alleys of the old centre of town are now filled with tourists.

Jayjay managed to get away from the police through narrow alleys.

There, in the slum's alleys and byways, hundreds of tiny businesses flourish.

Stick to well-lit streets and avoid dark alleys.

Children hustled off to school, their voices echoing down the narrow streets and alleys.