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Japanese addresses are also unusual in that they generally don't involve streets (or street numbering) at all but are instead based around city districts and bl
by faithful_droog 13y ago
Japanese addresses are also unusual in that they generally don't involve streets (or street numbering) at all but are instead based around city districts and blocks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_addressing_system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_addressing_system
- kijin 13y agoKorean addresses are similar, but they're slowly transitioning to an American-style addressing system that uses street numbers and street names. I guess the district-based addressing system made a lot of sense back when people just built houses in random locations around the town center.