Town Office, Public Office
Noun
やくば
役場でしょう明しょをもらってきてください。
Please get the certificate from the town hall.
役場のかべ紙は、かべからはがれてきています。
The town hall's wallpaper is peeling off the wall.
役場に行って転出届を出してきたよ。
I went to the town hall and submitted my change of address information.
A service location is a place that people go when they're in need of a service. The best place for this is the town hall. Everyone goes to this one location to voice their complaints and in return their needs are serviced by the officials in the town hall.
This word uses the on'yomi reading for the first kanji and the kun'yomi reading for the second kanji. That's all you have to remember, though, because you've seen both of these readings before!