Tokyo has a bizarre street address system, so arcane that I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that it was designed during the Edo period to confuse foreign invaders. Each district is divided into neighborhoods, and each neighborhood is divided into multiblock parcels called chome (cho-meh). Within each chome, the blocks are numbered, and on each block, the buildings are numbered. But they’re not necessarily numbered in order: building #1 might be between #17 and #24. This means any street address in Tokyo is an incomprehensible string of numbers (building/block/chome). Nobody other than the post
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