Changing Your Address on an Ehime Driver’s License: Police Stations on Weekdays, Matsuyama License Center on Sundays (2026)

Changing the address on a driver's license in Ehime

The Ehime Prefectural Driver's License Center in Matsuyama accepts address changes on Sundays, while police stations take them on weekdays.
Reception at the license center is 9:30–11:00 and 14:00–16:00 on weekdays, and 10:30–11:30 and 14:30–15:30 on Sundays.

In Ehime Prefecture, the police station for your address changes the address on your driver’s license (記載事項変更, kisai jiko henko) on weekdays only, but the Ehime Prefectural Driver’s License Center in Matsuyama also takes it on Sundays. The same counters handle a move within Ehime and a move into Ehime from another prefecture (Ehime Prefectural Police: change of entries (PDF, Japanese)). What you do depends on the kind of license you hold.

Driver’s license only: take the license and a document with your new address to the center or a police station.
My Number license only: if you have registered for the one-stop service, the moving-in procedure at your city or town office is enough and you do not go to the police. If not, change the address on your My Number card at the city or town office, then report it at the center or a police station.
Both a driver’s license and a My Number license: change the address on your My Number card at the city or town office, then take both cards to a police counter.
Foreign residents: show your residence card, special permanent resident certificate or a copy of your residence record with the license.

Where to change the address on an Ehime driver’s license, and when

The counters are the Driver’s License Center and the police station with jurisdiction over your address. The large police boxes (大型交番) in Uchiko, Nomura and Kihoku also take it, like a police station.

Where	Weekdays	Sunday
License center	9:30–11:00 14:00–16:00	10:30–11:30 14:30–15:30
Police station for your address	8:30–16:00	Closed

At the center, go to window 21 on the 2nd floor; at a police station, the traffic division license counter. Neither counter is open on Saturdays, national holidays or from December 29 to January 3. Both process the notification right away, and it takes about 20 minutes. The center stops taking applications from 11:00 to 14:00 on weekdays (11:30 to 14:30 on Sundays), while police stations take them without a break from 8:30 to 16:00. There is no fee for the address change (Ehime Prefectural Police: My Number license FAQ (Japanese)).

On Sundays, only the Ehime Driver’s License Center in Matsuyama

The Ehime Prefectural Driver’s License Center is in Katsuoka, Matsuyama. You can report the change here wherever in Ehime you live (Ehime Prefectural Police: center opening calendar (PDF, Japanese)).

In a car navigation system, search by 089-978-4141 or by the address, not by the police headquarters number. Searching 089-934-0110 shows the police headquarters building in Minamihoribata-cho, Matsuyama, a different place (Ehime Prefectural Police: location and transport (Japanese)).

The 2026 opening calendar marks Sundays as days for “license renewal and similar only,” and the change of entries is on that list. A change of entries that also makes a new card (reissue) is done on weekday opening days only.

Phone	089-934-0110 (police headquarters switchboard); My Number license 089-978-4141 or 089-978-4142
Car navigation	Search 089-978-4141 or the address

Name	Ehime Driver's License Center
Address	1163-7 Katsuoka-machi, Matsuyama City, Ehime
Hours / Closed	Change of registered details: Weekdays 9:30–11:00, 14:00–16:00 / Sundays 10:30–11:30, 14:30–15:30 (2F Window No. 21). Closed Saturdays, holidays, and December 29–January 3
Phone	089-934-0110 (Police Headquarters main line) / My Number license card: 089-978-4141 or 4142
Map	Open in Google Maps ↗
Official site	Open the official site ↗

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Changing the address at an Ehime police station

At a police station, the traffic division license counter (交通課免許窓口) of the station for your address takes it on weekdays from 8:30 to 16:00. If you only need the notification and not a new card, the station for your address or the large police boxes in Uchiko, Nomura and Kihoku are enough (Ehime Prefectural Police: change of entries (PDF, Japanese)).

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What to bring (driver’s license only)

Bring your current license and one document that confirms your new address. Showing it is enough; any one of these works:

Document	Condition
Residence record	住民票, issued within 1 year
My Number card	New address on the card
Utility bill	Or receipt, with new address and name
Postmarked mail	With new address and name

If you are not sure your document will do, the police ask you to call first. If your registered domicile (本籍) also changes, for example after marriage, hand in the original of a residence record showing the domicile (with the My Number left off). Family members living together can share one residence record listing everyone in the household. Foreign residents must show a residence card (在留カード), a special permanent resident certificate or a copy of the residence record, a rule in force since October 1, 2025. The page does not say what foreign residents who are not on a residence record should bring, so call the center first if that is your case.

If you cannot go yourself, an agent can apply with a power of attorney (委任状) you made. You fill in the whole form yourself, including the agent’s part (Ehime Prefectural Police: power of attorney (PDF, Japanese)). The change-of-entries guide says the agent can be “family, an employer and so on,” but the My Number license FAQ says “family only” and checks the relationship with a residence record or similar.

You get the residence record at the city or town office of your new address. For the moving-in deadline and counters in Matsuyama, see moving to Matsuyama City.

Getting a new card with the new address (reissue)

The new address you report is written on the back of your license. To have it printed on the front, apply for a reissue (再交付, saikofu) separately from the change of entries. For a holder of a driver’s license only, a new card costs ¥2,600. You need one photo (3 cm tall, 2.4 cm wide, taken within 6 months), and you pay in cash or with Ehime Prefecture revenue stamps. It is for people whose license address is in Ehime (Ehime Prefectural Police: reissue and re-recording (PDF, Japanese)).

Reissue hours are shorter than for the address change: weekdays 10:00–11:00 and 14:30–15:30 at the center, and weekdays 8:30–11:30 and 13:00–16:00 at police stations and large police boxes. There is no reissue on Saturdays or Sundays.

When you get the card depends on where you apply. The center, and the Niihama, Imabari, Yawatahama and Uwajima stations (for people living in their areas), issue it on the same day. In the areas of the other 8 stations and the Uchiko, Nomura and Kihoku police boxes, the driver’s license is issued about 3 weeks later. People living in the areas of the Matsuyama Higashi, Matsuyama Nishi, Matsuyama Minami and Iyo stations apply for a reissue at the center.

My Number license: only one card, or both cards

A My Number license (マイナ免許証) is a My Number card that holds your license information and is used as a driver’s license. If you hold only a My Number license and have registered for the one-stop service, changing the address on your My Number card at the city or town office means no notification to the police. With this “one-stop address change service,” a change made at the municipality is reflected on the My Number license automatically. You cannot skip the address change at the city or town office (Ehime Prefectural Police: one-stop service (PDF, Japanese)).

The My Number license starts on March 24, 2025 (Ehime Prefectural Police official channel; in Japanese)

To register, you hand in your signature certificate (PIN of 6 to 16 characters) at a police facility, then link it with My Number Portal on a smartphone at home. At the city or town office of your new address, have a new signature certificate issued together with the change on your My Number card. Changing the address cancels the old signature certificate, and without a new one the one-stop service does not work (Ehime Prefectural Police: My Number card and driver’s license (Japanese)).

People who hold both a driver’s license and a My Number license are not covered by this service. At the counter, no address document is needed if the new address is written on the My Number license. If you did not change the My Number card at the city or town office (only within 90 days of moving in), or there was no space left on the card for the new address, show a copy of your residence record instead.

What to know when choosing a counter in Ehime

Ehime has one license center, in Matsuyama. Three points matter when you choose where to go.

Even if you live in Imabari, Niihama or Uwajima, reporting on a Sunday means going to the center in Matsuyama. If you can go on a weekday, the police station for your address takes it.

Uchiko, Nomura and Kihoku have large police boxes that take the change of entries on weekdays, the same as police stations.

People living in the areas of the Matsuyama Higashi, Matsuyama Nishi, Matsuyama Minami and Iyo stations cannot switch to a My Number license (change of license holding) at their local station, so they do it at the center (Ehime Prefectural Police: My Number license FAQ (Japanese)). Other license services are listed on Ehime Prefectural Police: driver’s license guides (Japanese).

Sources (checked October 2026)

Ehime Prefectural Police: change of entries, power of attorney, reissue and re-recording, center calendar (2026), location and transport, My Number license FAQ, one-stop service, My Number card and driver’s license, driver’s license guides

All pages above are in Japanese.