Not Japan at all? "That's impossible," Jintetsu said firmly. Granted, given the evidence - the architecture, the locals' clothing, the fact that he'd never heard of anyplace called Paishō despite the sheer size of this city - it almost couldn't be Japan, but it couldn't not be Japan, either.

He did notice the similarity between Kenshin's journal and the "thing" he'd been given at the gate, which he'd put in his bag and hadn't looked at since, but didn't say anything about it.