Japanese post office

A post office marked with 〒, the Japanese postal symbol. It means Japan Post and sending mail in Japan.

Japan travelers use it for sending postcards or parcels home. Outside Japan it is rare, since the symbol is not widely known.

The 〒 mark also appears before postal codes on Japanese addresses. For a general post office, 🏤 is the usual pick.

Facts

Japanese post office 🏣 is an emoji in the travel and places category, under place building. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :post_office: or :japanese_post_office:. People also look for it with words like “Japanese”, “building”, “office”, or “post”.

Timeline

1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)

Design history

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

travel & places · Unicode 6.0