Як користуватися: Japanese address in English
- 1
Enter your postal code
Type the seven digits of your 〒 code. The prefecture, city and town appear in English; if the code covers several towns, pick yours.
- 2
Add the block number
Type 番地・号 the way you write it in Japanese, 1丁目2番3号 or 1-2-3, in any digits; it turns into 1-2-3.
- 3
Add the building and room
Write the building name in katakana, hiragana or romaji and the room as 101 or 101号室. Kana is romanized as you type.
- 4
Copy the format you need
Copy each form field on its own, the whole address on one line, or the rows for an envelope or a shipping label.
Ліміти та Pro
Free with no sign-up and no cap on how many addresses you convert; looking up a code loads about 20 to 200 KB of postal data once.
Pro removes the ads; conversions are unlimited on every plan. Дивитися Pro
Про інструмент: Japanese address in English
Overseas shops such as iHerb, Amazon.com or eBay, foreign banks, visa and university forms, and friends sending a parcel from abroad all need your address in Latin letters. A Japanese address runs from the largest unit to the smallest, 〒874-0923 大分県別府市新港町1-2-3 サニーハイツ101, while an English one starts with the building and ends with the country, split across the fields of a form. This page does the reordering and the romanization.
The town, municipality and prefecture come from Japan Post's romanized data for your code, spelled the way the post office spells them: Shimminatomachi, Beppu-shi, Oita. The block number is rewritten in the hyphenated form that delivery staff in Japan read at a glance, so 1丁目2番3号 and 一丁目二番地の三 both become 1-2-3. A building name typed in kana is romanized in Hepburn without long-vowel marks, and common loanwords keep their English spelling: サニーハイツ becomes Sunny Heights rather than Sanihaitsu. A phone number swaps its leading zero for the country code, +81.
You get three versions: separate fields for a sign-up form, with one or two address lines; the whole address on one line; and up to four short rows for an envelope or label, in the order Japan Post gives for international mail, ending with JAPAN.
Building names in kanji are not converted, because one name can be read several ways and a wrong reading on a parcel is worse than none; type those in kana or romaji. Words such as 荘 or 号棟 are not translated either.
Приватність
Everything you type here, from the postal code to the phone number, stays in this page's memory: it is not saved in your browser, not sent anywhere, and gone when you close the tab. To find your town the page downloads Japan Post's public data for the first three digits of the code from this site, the same file for everyone with those digits; your full code, block number, building, room and phone never leave your device.
Можливості
Block numbers tidied
1丁目2番3号, 一丁目二番地の三 and full-width digits all become 1-2-3.
Kana building names
サニーハイツ becomes Sunny Heights; other kana is romanized the way Japan Post spells towns.
Three formats
Form fields, one line, or envelope rows ending with JAPAN, each with a copy button.
The order Japan Post gives for an address in English
Japan Post's page "How to Write the Address and Name", in the international mail section of post.japanpost.jp, asks for the Latin alphabet and Arabic numerals and lists five rows: first the name after "From", then the building name and room number if there is one, then the house number with the town or village, then the city and prefecture, and last the postal code and the country.
The envelope version on this page uses those rows without the name, which you add on top. A town or village (-machi, -cho, -mura) stays on the row with the house number, and the county or city goes on the row with the prefecture, the way Japan Post's Japanese page describes it (番地、丁・町村 and 郡市、都道府県).