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Postal addresses are really complicated and this page makes them look far simpler and more consistent than they really are. I used to deal with these all the t

Postal addresses are really complicated and this page makes them look far simpler and more consistent than they really are. I used to deal with these all the time when working with geocoding at Google Maps, and I ended up braindumping a lot of what I learned the hard way into Wikipedia, because for many countries there's very little documentation available in English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_addressing_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_addressing_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_addressing_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_addressing_system

ranma42 8y ago
Something that could also go into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_addressing_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_addressing_system: Ryūgasaki-shi in Ibaraki is a japanese town that doesn't use cho, so you get addresses like: 〒301-8611 茨城県龍ケ崎市3710番地 (3710 Banchi, Ryūgasaki-shi, Ibaraki-ken 301-8611) Japanese news video about this oddity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MfFnpx7e6k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MfFnpx7e6k Apparently they neglected to adopt 町名 (chōmei) subdivisions when the town was promoted from machi to shi in 1954.