Postal Service
Post offices provide a range of postal services including the shipping of post cards, letters, parcels and registered mail as well as savings and insurance services. Door-to-door delivery services, known as takuhaibin, are also provided by various companies other than the post office.

Small post offices are open Monday to Friday from 9:00 to 17:00 and are closed on weekends and national holidays. Larger offices are opened on weekdays until 19:00 and may also open on Saturdays and Sundays. Most post offices are equipped with international automatic teller machines (ATMs). Mailboxes are red.

Japanese Addresses
With the exception of major roads, Japanese streets are not named. Instead, cities and towns are subdivided into areas, sub-areas and blocks, similar to the insulae system of the Roman Empire. To complicate the matter, houses within each sub-area were formerly not numbered in geographical sequence but in the temporal order in which they were constructed.

If addresses are written in Japanese, they start with the postal code, followed by the prefecture, city and sub-area(s), and end with the recipient’s name. If addresses are written in English, they start with the recipient’s name and end with the prefecture and postal code.  A typical Tokyo address might read 1-9-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, which is the address of the Tokyo Station Hotel. Chiyoda-ku is the name of the ward. Wards are further divided into districts, in this case Marunouchi. Marunouchi itself is broken down into chome (numbered subsections), here 1-chome. Number 9 refers to a smaller area within the chome — usually an entire block, sometimes larger. Thus, houses on one side of the street will usually have a different middle number from houses on the other side. The last number, in this case 1, refers to the actual building. Although it seems reasonable to assume that next to a number 1 building will be a number 2, that’s not always the case; buildings were assigned numbers as they were constructed, not according to location.

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