How to say "consulate" in Japanese

• 領事館りょうじかんCommon
  nounThe common word for 'consulate' in the ordinary sense: a country's consular post abroad, the institution and its premises. Use it, for example, to say a city has a consulate.
  私はこのビザを、神戸こうべのアメリカ領事館りょうじかんでとりました。↗

  I got this visa at the American Consulate in Kobe.
• 領事事務所りょうじじむしょ
  nounCovers 'consular office': it frames the consulate as a working office rather than the post itself. Also glossed 'consulate', but being less common, 領事館 is the usual choice; typical of official references to consular offices.

Use 領事館 for a consulate in the ordinary sense — the consular post or its premises; 領事事務所 means 'consular office', emphasizing the office that handles consular business, and is a less common way to say 'consulate'.

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• 領事館りょうじかんconsulate
• 領事事務所りょうじじむしょconsular office