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The Denso MapCode system divided Japan into 1162 zones, each zone into 900 blocks, and each block into 900 areas. A Denso MapCode number consists of the zone number (up to 4 digits), the block number (always 3 digits) and the area number (always 3 digits), a numeric code of up to 10 digits. As the MapCode numbers proved too coarse for certain ...
Mapcode. The mapcode system is an open-source geocode system consisting of two groups of letters and digits, separated by a dot. It represents a location on the surface of the Earth, within the context of a separately specified country or territory. For example, the entrance to the elevator of the Eiffel Tower in Paris is “France 4J.Q2”.
Currently for Japan, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 47 prefectures . Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is JP, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Japan. The second part is two digits (01–47), which is the Japanese Industrial Standard JIS X 0401 code of the prefecture. The codes are assigned roughly from north ...
Map of geographic dialing codes. These tables list the dialing codes (area codes) for calling land lines for various cities and districts in Japan, when dialing from within Japan. The leading 0 is omitted when calling from outside Japan. Cell phones use the dialing codes of 070, 080 or 090. IP-based phone services use the 050 dialing code.
Japanese maps. The earliest known term used for maps in Japan is believed to be kata ( 形, roughly "form"), which was probably in use until roughly the 8th century. During the Nara period, the term zu ( 図) came into use, but the term most widely used and associated with maps in pre-modern Japan is ezu ( 絵図, roughly "picture diagram").
In many contexts in Japan (government, media markets, sports, regional business or trade union confederations), regions are used that deviate from the above-mentioned common geographical 8-region division that is sometimes referred to as "the" regions of Japan in the English Wikipedia and some other English-language publications. Examples of ...
2-digit postcodes of Japan. Postal codes in Japan are 7-digit numeric codes using the format NNN-NNNN, where N is a digit. [1] The first two digits refer to one of the 47 prefectures (for example, 40 for the Yamanashi Prefecture), the next digit for one of a set of adjacent cities in the prefecture (408 for Hokuto, Yamanashi) the next two for a neighborhood and the last for a neighborhood or ...
t. e. The bureaucratic administration of Japan is divided into three basic levels: national, prefectural, and municipal. They are defined by the Local Autonomy Law of 1947. Below the national government there are 47 prefectures, six of which are further subdivided into subprefectures to better service large geographical areas or remote islands.