交番 (Kouban) is a Japanese noun meaning “police box, koban, small neighborhood police station, alternation”.
Meanings
- nounpolice box; koban; small neighborhood police station
- nounalternation
- prenominalalternating (current, stress, etc.)
Examples
交番が近くにある。
A police station is close at hand.
向こうの交番で聞いてください。
Ask at the police station over there.
交番の周りに人がたくさんいた。
I saw a number of people around the police box.
Sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR).