Address and postal code of Japan

Japanese address and postal code search tool. Random Japanese Kanji and romaji address(prefecture,city,Ward) and postal code generator.

In Japan, the Kanji address always starts with the postal code, then goes from the largest to the most specific,the prefecture,City,Ward,District,Block,and Number.
Comparatively, the Romaji address starts with the name of the residence, the block, building and ward numbers, then the name of the ward, then the city or metropolis, then the prefecture, and the postal code.Don't forget the JAPAN in the last.
The administrative division of Japan includes 47 prefectures.

In addition to Hokkaido, the prefecture is divided into two systems.

One is the urban system, with city-machi (street)-chome (segment)-Bandi (number); The other is a rural system with counties (districts)-towns (towns)-villages. Therefore, the county is large and the city is small.

Hokkaido has no prefectures, there are wards and cities.

Japan has 23 special wards (all in Tokyo), 782 cities, 827 towns, 195 villages, 418 districts, 22 branch offices, and 125 wards.

Japan has a tradition of ordering prefectures into geographic regions. This kind of ordering prefecture is anchored on Japan’s International Organization for Standardization. The regions and number of prefectures making them are (from south to north); Kyushu (8 prefectures), Shikoku (4), Chugoku (5), Kansai (7), Chubu (9), Kanto (7), Tohoku (6), and Hokkaido (1)

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