Japanese addresses: No street names. Block numbers.

Re:Japanese addresses: No street names. Block numbers. by patio11 on Monday June 22, 2009 @12:47AM (#668248)

Here's the directions to get to my house from the train station (I take cabs frequently):

"I live in XXXXX-cho [n.b.: name of neighborhood] #1. It is south of the $SUPERMARKET."

The cabbie then will ask me:

"Left at the Budda or right at the Budda?"

Its left.

[Edit to add: Half of the cabbies in my town of 150,000 can also do it from a building name. Any building name. Imagine if you worked on the same codebase for 30 years -- do you think there would be functions you couldn't find? Now, if you go to Nagoya, I would suggest not relying on that.]

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Re:Japanese addresses: No street names. Block numbers. by jimbokun on Monday June 22, 2009 @11:26AM (#668903)

"Here's the directions to get to my house from the train station"

Which constitutes a large part of the answer to how directions are given in Japan: it is almost always relative to the nearest train station. "Go out the South exit, turn right at the Colonel Sanders statue and go two blocks past the Pachinko parlor..."

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Re:Japanese addresses: No street names. Block numbers. by rend on Monday June 22, 2009 @08:15AM (#668608)

禾森町 [noginomori-cho], south of Landy's?

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Re:Japanese addresses: No street names. Block numbers. by patio11 on Monday June 22, 2009 @11:47AM (#668935)

Thank you for reminding me to update my whois record.

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