The system had a feature to devide a certain area of land into squars with perpendicular parallel lines (hokaku sen [grid lines]) at about 109-meter intervals, and there are remains of jori chiwari (lands allocated using jo and ri) throughout Japan except Hokaido and Okinawa even now.
ある範囲の土地を約109m間隔で直角に交わる平行線（方格線）により正方形に区分するという特徴があり、現在も北海道と沖縄を除く日本各地に条里地割の遺構が残っている。