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Postal codes in 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 ...
A postal mark, 〒, may precede the code to indicate that the number following is a postal code. Address order. In Japanese, the address is written in order from largest unit to smallest, with the addressee's name last of all. For example, the address of the Tokyo Central Post Office is 〒100-8994 東京都千代田区丸ノ内二丁目7番2号
The postal code refers to the post office at which the receiver's P. O. Box is located. Kiribati: KI – no codes - Korea, North: KP – no codes - Korea, South: 2015-08-01 KR: NNNNN Previously NNN-NNN (1988~2015), NNN or NNN-NN (1970~1988) Kosovo: XK: NNNNN A separate postal code for Kosovo was introduced by the UNMIK postal administration in ...
Country name (Japan) Postal code Address line (from larger to smaller division) Recipient. English, in Western order; Ms. Hanako Tanaka 3rd Fl. Rm. B 4-3-2 Hakusan Bunkyō-ku, Tōkyō 112-0001 (Japan) Recipient Address line (secondary unit) Address line (sub-municipal level) Municipal, prefecture names and postal code Country name (Japan)
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. Historically, it was used by the Ministry of Communications (逓信省, Teishin-shō ...
A 1967 stamp of Japan featuring a painting of Mount Fuji. The story of Japan 's postal system with its postage stamps and related postal history goes back centuries. The country's first modern postal service got started in 1871, with mail professionally travelling between Kyoto and Tokyo as well as the latter city and Osaka.
A postal code (also known locally in various English-speaking countries throughout the world as a postcode, post code, PIN or ZIP Code) is a series of letters or digits or both, sometimes including spaces or punctuation, included in a postal address for the purpose of sorting mail . As of August 2021, the Universal Postal Union lists 160 ...
Area codes increase from north to south; Sapporo in Hokkaidō (the northernmost prefecture) has 11, and Setouchi's 99-73 is far to the south in Kagoshima. When the telephone system was devised, Okinawa was still under U.S. occupation , so when it was returned to Japan in 1972, its telephone numbers were squeezed between Miyazaki (98x) and ...