大字
ōazaおおあざ
Large village section
A legacy place-name division, usually the name of a pre-merger village, that survives inside many rural addresses. Addresses like 〇〇市大字△△ are common in the countryside and signal that the address is lot-number based rather than jūkyo hyōji.
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