Talk:Japanese addressing system/Archive 1

message: The article is quite informative, but actually when trying to figure out the numbers on addresses in Tokyo, it is either innacurate or incomplete.
Most of the addresses that I know of follow the 1-2-3 format mentioned in the article, but these numbers correspond to chome, ban, go (not chome, banchi, ban as in the article) and are written 1丁目２番３号.
Well, I am not expert enough on this subject to say for certain, but the article does not correspond to the addresses that I see on my alien registration card, my employer's address, etc.
My guess would be that the article has confused the contraction of "banchi" to "ban" with the final house number which is "go", but as I said I am not an expert.
:The words banchi and ban are used in spoken Japanese, and when reffering to the concept. The ban and go characters are only used in written address form. Mattopia 10:52, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  chome-ban-go vs chome-banchi-ban 

message: Can anyone tell me what city this is? Chris 02:40, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: says Hashimoto, Wakayama. Jpatokal 00:08, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you so much for that! Chris 02:35, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Postal code 648-0001

message: The article implies that -aza divisions exist only in -gun areas.  In Sendai, at least, there are -aza under the -ku, at the same level as -machi.  For example, Tohoku University's engineering campus is in Sendai-shi, Aoba-ku, Aramaki-aza.  Sendai-shi is pretty big, and encompasses a bunch of wilderness, so the -aza are used in less populated areas that are still within the borders of Sendai-shi.  I have no idea whether this is generally true or a peculiarity of Sendai, so I leave it to others to do with this information what they will. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 18.78.7.125 (talk • contribs) 23:58, 6 December 2006  (UTC)
:In filling in the CityHallAddress in the infobox for Iwaki, Fukushima last night, I ran into the problem of what to do with aza (and ōaza). The address is 福島県いわき市平字梅本21番地, which I have temporarily rendered as 21 Umemoto, Taira. (Should I include "Iwaki, Fukushima" as well, or assume people will know enough to add them?) Is this all right, or should it be 21 Aza Umemoto, Taira, or even 21 Taira Aza Umemoto?
:I never encounted aza until moving to Tohoku from Kanto (Ibaraki), but I've seen it used in addresses in Aichi and elsewhere. Note that it is not confined to "rural" or semi-wild areas in Iwaki; City Hall is downtown, just a few blocks from the Station.
:I'm posting this here in hopes someone has a ready answer or authoritative link on how to romanize this! 4649! --RJCraig 01:43, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Aza under -shi

message: This article could use some more information about the postal codes. How large is an area with the same code? How big area share the same first 3 digits? --Apoc2400 12:30, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Information about postal codes 

message: Is there any way we can get a better example image up?  The current one gets the point across, but I think we can do better.  Perhaps one that shows the location of the Apple Store used in the text example?  I'd make it, but I'm not familiar with the system or the location. -Nameneko 21:07, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  New example image? 

message: There's a notable lack of references within this article; the sci.lang.japan link is nice, but that's all there is. Are there any other extant sources about? For that matter, where'd the datum about the system being in use since the Meiji era come from? --moof 02:30, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  References? 

message: :"the cities of Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto are almost always referenced without to or fu"
I reworded this sentence, since Tokyo is not a city at all, and I removed references to Kyoto and Osaka. -fu refers to prefectures, so naturally it would not be used with these cities, and Osaka and Kyoto prefectures typically are mentioned with -fu, to differentiate them from their respective cities. The person who wrote this probably meant -shi rather than -fu, but I opted to remove Osaka and Kyoto from this sentence entirely, since the paragraph is talking about prefectures, not cities. LeeWilson 06:38, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: to and fu