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Yeah, used to live in Japan and it was quite annoying. The 'building number' having no relation to location is fairly useless. I generally had to explain thro
by moufestaphio 9y ago
Yeah, used to live in Japan and it was quite annoying.
The 'building number' having no relation to location is fairly useless. I generally had to explain through landmarks/obvious buildings where I wanted to go.
The whole system is pretty useless for giving directions.
It's better now with Smart phones (wasn't a thing when I first moved there), but still bad. Korea uses the same system afaik.
- bihnkim 9y agoLast I checked Korea is migrating to a system that resembles American addresses, but both systems are currently valid.
- yongjik 9y agoIronically, most Koreans I've seen hate the new (America-like) street number system. The problem is that these streets are either (1) really long (say, five kilometers, which covers a lot in a dense city) or (2) one of the several hundred small lanes that branches off these long roads, all named like "XXX street 138-lane" In the previous system, at least the address tells you which township ("dong") it belongs to, which is usually a walkable distance. (So, for example, you'd have a pretty good idea which subway station to use.) In the new system, it could be anywhere along a busy street running through several districts.