Comments on: Romanizing Japanese addresses

By: Japanese Translation

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By: Kellen

Kellen — Mon, 25 May 2009 05:26:15 +0000

This is what I tend to do as well, though I’m in China not Japan. When people from abroad need to send me stuff I don’t require them to trace out characters but instead just assume the postal workers know or can make sense of the standard transliteration system. Of course, the postal codes are still a must since that introduces more than a little ambiguity.

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By: amake

amake — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:12:43 +0000

Durf > Yes, the 7-digit zip code specifies down to the plot number in some cases (otherwise just down to the neighborhood level), so sometimes just a name, a zip code, and “JAPAN” will do. But people still do write out addresses, and to that end I think it’s important to have some sort of sane standard.

By: Durf

Durf — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:10:49 +0000

Actually, so long as you have the seven-digit postal code in there, you can do whatever you want to everything down to neighborhood level and your mail will get there just fine, probably.

When I send stuff to Japan from overseas I tend to write the address in Japanese and make sure there’s a JAPAN in visible letters on the envelope. So long as the foreign country’s postal people know which nation to send it to the rest doesn’t matter.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:23:58 +0000

My address, especially, needs suffixes, because I live in Fukushima-shi, Fukushima-ken. On top of that, there’s a Fukushima in Osaka, too, so it gets confusing.

At least the postal code is clear.

By: Deas

Deas — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:03:51 +0000

Thanks!

By: Nick Ramsay

Nick Ramsay — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:03:51 +0000

That makes sense. I’ll write my address with the suffixes from now on. Thanks!