How to search for an address in Japan map?

[Tom]

How do I correctly search for an address on the Japan map?

For example, lets say I am searching for

2-1-1 asakusa (Located in Taito, Tokyo)

which is equal to 2 Chome-1-1 Asakusa

I have tried to enter all possible combinations into "House #" and "Street" but it is not working. How do I correctly search for this address?

Here is a link to the address on google maps:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/2+Chome-1-1+Asakusa/@35.712833,139.797592,17z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x60188ec14e57ba5f:0xbef1489452512f84?hl=en

Thank you,

Tom

[Jack Burke]

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this is an OpenStreetMap problem, not an osmand problem.

 

If I go to openstreetmap.org and try to search for that address using Nominatum, I can't find it there, either.  And that's the map osmand uses.  Most likely, the address information hasn't been added to the OSM maps in the first place; osmand can't find something that's not marked on the map!  So.....you'd probably get better help by asking in the OSM forums if someone can help you add the address to the map (or if you know how to find it looking at a map, you can sign up and add it yourself).

 

--jack

[Dan]

Addresses in Japan pose a special problem for both OpenStreetMap and OsmAnd. They do not use an actual 'street' address, since many of their streets are not named. The address you gave is broken down as:
Tokyo: the city name
Asakusa: section of the city
2 Chome: neighborhood (maybe 10-30 blocks in a roughly square area)
1:  a single block within the neighborhood (the number is arbitrarily assigned, no specific order)
1:  the building number (assigned when the first building was build on this block,
    assigned in the order in which buildings were build; so #1 might be next to #5 and #27, and #2 might be on the other side of the block)

There is no relation between a building's address and the street where it is located. I checked Asakusa on OSM, it looks like all of the buildings have been mapped, but NOT the Chome or blocks. The buildings in OSM are NOT tagged with their addresses. Still a lot of work to be done in Tokyo to map it correctly in OSM.
OsmAnd should be able to get you close to a location, only if the Chome were tagged in OSM as suburbs or neighborhoods, and the building number was tagged in its "name" tag. So the problem is with the OSM data, not OsmAnd.

Hope this explanation helps,
Dan

[Dan]

Minor correction to my post:
Map edits in Japan should follow: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Japan_tagging#Places
The 23 wards of Tokyo are a special case, supposed to be tagged as place=city,  so Asakusa should be tagged as a city.

Dan

[Locker Security]

Hi Tom

I need the lik of the adress here after. Could you please send it to me ??

1-8, Hino 3-chome, Kohnan-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, 234-0051, Japan