Japanese Address to English

People living in Japan who need to write their address in English: when ordering from overseas online stores, writing the sender's address on international mail, filling in visa, study-abroad or job forms, or telling friends and colleagues abroad where they live.

When an online checkout asks for the address split into Address Line 1, City, State and ZIP. Each field has its own copy button, so you just paste them one by one. For envelopes and EMS labels, you can copy the mailing label layout as it is.

Just enter a postal code and the city and area names come out spelled the way Japan Post writes them, so you don't have to look them up or guess the spelling. Block numbers written with 丁目, 番 and 号 are turned into the hyphen form, 305号室 becomes 305, and 3階 becomes 3F.

No. To find the area for a postal code, the page loads the postal code data stored on this site and searches it inside the page. The block number, building name and room number never leave the page.

The opposite of Japanese: from the smallest unit to the largest. Japan Post's guide lists building and room, then block number and area, then city and prefecture, then postal code and country. The results here follow that order.

Address Line 1 is the block number and area, Address Line 2 is the building and room, City is the city or ward, State / Province / Region is the prefecture, ZIP is the postal code, and Country is Japan. If the form only has a state drop-down, choose or type the prefecture name (for example Tokyo).