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3-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 ...
In addition to the address itself, all locations in Japan have a postal code. After the reform of 1998, this begins with a three-digit number, a hyphen, and a four-digit number, for example 123-4567. A postal mark, 〒, may precede the code to indicate that the number following is a postal code.
Japanese postal service mark 〒 (郵便記号, yūbin kigō) is the service mark of Japan Post and its successor, Japan Post Holdings, the postal operator in Japan.It is also used as a Japanese postal code mark since the introduction of the latter in 1968.
Japan Post Office head office building. Japan Post (日本郵政公社, Nippon Yūsei Kōsha) was a Japanese statutory corporation that existed from 2003 to 2007, offering postal and package delivery services, banking services, and life insurance.
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.
Examples of station number icons in Japan. Station numbering is a sign system which assigns station codes consisting of a few letters and numbers to train stations . It aims to facilitate navigation for foreign travelers not familiar with the local language [ 1 ] by using globally understood characters ( Latin letters and Arabic numbers ).
This process would reduce the number of subprefecture administrative regions and cut administrative costs. [3] The Japanese government also considered a plan to merge several groups of prefectures, creating a subnational administrative division system consisting of between nine and 13 states, and giving these states more local autonomy than the ...
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 ...