I’m preparing to relocate to Japan in mid-August. I was able to make a contract to rent an apartment. And I was told to apply for water at the earliest.
I’m trying to apply through the website [waterworks.metro.tokyo.lg.jp](https://suidonet.waterworks.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/inet-service/uketsuke/main_english) which is available in English.
I’m stuck on the part where I have to fill in the location details.
Let’s say the address to my apartment is 東京都世⽥⾕区鎌⽥ 5−4−3
And the postal code is 157-0077
I understand that 5 is the chome, 4 is the city block number, 3 is the building number, and it is located in Setagaya City.
But the form requires me to fill the following fields:
* Neighborhood (machi and oaza) (Required)
* Street (aza and chome)
* House number (banchi and gosu, entry example: 4-5)
* Building number
I appreciate it if someone could show me what to fill in those fields.
Isn’t the house number and building number the same?
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I believe that the [Wikipedia article on Japanese address system](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_addressing_system#Address_order) is pretty decent to understand what and where you need to put when filling the form in.
Let’s take a real address of a random residential building as an example:
〒114-0023 東京都北区滝野川７丁目２４−1 パークアクシス板橋
北区 (Kita-ku) – “ward name”
滝野川 (Takinogawa) goes for “neighborhood”
７丁目 (7-chome) – for, to no surprise, “chome”
24-1 – “block and house number”
パークアクシス板橋 (Park Axis Itabashi) – is the actual building name (in case there is one), otherwise just “1” would do.