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The upper plaque is the district name plate (町名板, chōmei ban) and the lower, the residential number plate (住居番号板, jūkyo bangō ban). Street names are seldom used in postal addresses (except in Kyoto and some Hokkaidō cities such as Sapporo).
Medieval Japan had many towns that fell into three categories: castle towns, post towns, harbor towns. In addition, the rise of commerce contributed to some place names. Here are some parts of names connected with medieval Japan: ichi (市), a market; e.g., Yokkaichi: "fourth-day market"-jō (城), a castle. Place names giving directions ...
Category: Streets in Japan by city. ... Streets in Tokyo (7 P) This page was last edited on 28 June 2017, at 18:04 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Pages in category "Streets in Tokyo" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C. Cat Street, Tokyo; G.
Shopping districts and streets in Japan (2 C, 26 P) Pages in category "Streets in Japan" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
Across the pond, in a suburb of South Yorkshire, the long-suffering residents of Butt Hole Road couldn't take the jokes visiting tourists and back-side baring teens any longer.
The street name usually forms part of the address (though addresses in some parts of the world, notably most of Japan, make no reference to street names). Buildings are often given numbers along the street to further help identify them. Odonymy is the study of road names.
The longest place names in Poland are Sobienie Kiełczewskie Pierwsze and Przedmieście Szczebrzeszyńskie, with 30 letters (including spaces). The longest place name in the Netherlands is Westerhaar-Vriezenveensewijk (28 characters, including a hyphen). The longest street name is Laan van de landinrichtingscommissie Duiven-Westervoort in Duiven.