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A couple of "favorite" exceptions not on Wikipedia: House numbers are usually of the form 1-2-3. Places with just two numbers are common, they haven't caught u
by polm23 6y ago
A couple of "favorite" exceptions not on Wikipedia:
House numbers are usually of the form 1-2-3. Places with just two numbers are common, they haven't caught up with the "new" law from the 1962 yet.
Numbers are often written without suffixes, but in most places with three numbers the suffixes are 丁目-番-号. In one city - Wakasa in Fukui - the last two are reversed. I have never been able to find any mention of this at all, let alone why it would be the case.
Some cities are laid out in a clock pattern with slices named after animals of the Chinese Zodiac.
Neighborhoods are typically divided into blocks with numbers (or the number is omitted if there's just one block). But as addresses change over time, sometimes just one block goes away, so there are many places where block 1 no longer exists or there are gaps in the numbering.
On Yahoo Answers I once saw a person who was confused after their local post office adamantly told them one of their two or three numbers had a hyphen in it (so it was like 1-(2-3)) because it represented two joined lots, but that shouldn't be possible.
Mail is always complicated... I worked at a mail store in high school in the States and remember shipping some weird stuff.
- Danieru 6y ago> Places with just two numbers are common Hoho, I've got a fun one. My house is TOWN 632-3 but not 丁目 番 号 anything. There is a 6丁目32番3号 in our city which is _not_ my house. This lead one night to me driving across town to pick up a lost friend. Our house was in a development soon post war which for ages was surrounded by nothing but rice paddies. We've had a couple online shops which assume we're missing portions of our address. Overall though I like havinng only two numbers. Makes me feel like I own a whole town block.
- howlgarnish 6y agoSounds like you have a chiban address: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_addressing_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_addressing_system
- Danieru 6y agoOh indeed you are 100%. Thank you for that link, it explains so much.
- polm23 6y agoOh, that sounds awful. I have a C in my address and sometimes it's fine and sometimes it's a whole thing explaining that it's not 4, it's C. That said, two-number adresses are pretty common, I'm surprised you run into trouble with that. I live near Tokyo Tower, and even in the heart of Tokyo Minato-ku is only 99.XX% three-digit addresses. Azabu Nagasaka and Azabu Mamiana are tiny neighborhoods that are both still two digits (and Mamiana's name is another weird story...).