Here's the directions to get to my house from the train station (I take cabs frequently):

"I live in XXXXX-cho [n.b.: name of neighborhood] #1. It is south of the $SUPERMARKET."

The cabbie then will ask me:

"Left at the Budda or right at the Budda?"

Its left.

[Edit to add: Half of the cabbies in my town of 150,000 can also do it from a building name. Any building name. Imagine if you worked on the same codebase for 30 years -- do you think there would be functions you couldn't find? Now, if you go to Nagoya, I would suggest not relying on that.]