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Originally Posted by dogsbody70
Please tell me about the addresses etc-- Do the streets not have names and the houses Numbers? How confusing that must be!!!
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My address for instance is 8-150 (numbers altered for privacy
) kita (north) 4 jo, Higashi (east) 4 chome. So we are in a block near the intersection of the 4th main road north and 4th main road east of the rail station which is ground zero. The number at the start of the address is not a house number but the lot number of the land we are on. There are no numbers on houses and no street names. So unless you have a map with the lot numbers in this block you really have no idea which house is ours purely by the address, you just know the general area that it can be found. When we first moved here and started getting stuff delivered to our house (from say buying stuff over the net) the couriers almost always had to call us to get directions. Now thankfully most of them know where we are. Not too many other gaijin living nearby.
Up in the ski village I work at every single address is xxx-xxx Aza Yamada. There's probably a few hundred houses and buildings in the village. Again none actually have numbers on them and the number before Aza Yamada is again the lot number. The lot numbers have no real order as they depend on when a subdivision of the land occurred. Anyway you get the idea again unless you have map of the all the lot numbers there's no logical or easy way to find an address. And such maps are not readily available. Even when you have one, as most of the couriers do, try finding a 6 digit number out of hundreds of lots in this whole village. No wonder they usually just head into an office and ask for help.
Anyway as I say one of craziest address systems you could ever imagine.