> Houses get built on streets
well somebody is doing it... if they bothered to build a whole house, how hard is it to assign a number to it? Sounds like a chaotic nightmare and not nearly as cute nostalgic as the article tries to make it.
well somebody is doing it... if they bothered to build a whole house, how hard is it to assign a number to it? Sounds like a chaotic nightmare and not nearly as cute nostalgic as the article tries to make it.
What's interesting with Costa Rica is they apparently never formalize; in Mexico a similar thing would occur but at some point actual street names would get added.
Then again mail delivery in Mexico at the time was quite sporadic, hardly done at all (companies like the electric company would hand-deliver bills from their own couriers).
<postal code> <prefecture> <city> <district> <num>-<num>-<num>-<apt. num>
Or in English style:
<num>-<num>-<num> <district> <building name> <apt num> (optional, can also append the apt number to the 3 numbers on the top line) <city> <prefecture> <postal code>
The 2nd <num> is the "block", the first is the "chome" which is a division of the district within the city, and the 3rd is the building number. Otherwise, you're correct. The streets have no names (except for big thoroughfares, but these aren't used for addresses anyway), and buildings have numbers, which are usually assigned by when they were built.
And Mannheim in Germany is kind of Kyoto's mirror image: in a country of named streets, Mannheim has numbered blocks.
https://www.japan-experience.com/plan-your-trip/to-know/trav...
It looks like Sapporo is similar.