Re:Parsing the Infamous Japanese Postal CSV
by howlgarnish on Monday November 09, 2020 @09:29AM
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Sounds like you have a chiban address: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_addressing_system
Re:Parsing the Infamous Japanese Postal CSV
by Danieru on Monday November 09, 2020 @09:38AM
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Oh indeed you are 100%. Thank you for that link, it explains so much.
Re:Parsing the Infamous Japanese Postal CSV
by polm23 on Monday November 09, 2020 @09:39AM
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Oh, 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...).
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.