Town Hall
Town Office, Public Office
noun
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.
役場 specifically refers to the administrative office of a town (町) or village (村) rather than a city (市). Depending on the location, it may be also be called a 町役場 or 村役場.
This word uses the on'yomi reading for the first kanji and the kun'yomi reading for the second kanji. You didn't learn the kun'yomi reading for 場 with the kanji, so here's a mnemonic to help you remember it:
At your town hall, you say "baa" (ば) when you talk to the clerks. You live in a town full of sheep, so you need to speak Sheepanese whenever you run errands at the town hall. "Baa, baa, baa," you say as you submit a big stack of paperwork to the clerk.
今日の朝、役場に行ってきました。
I went to the town hall this morning.
町の役場の近くにコンビニはありますか？
Is there a convenience store near the town office?
役場の前で午後二時に会いましょう。
See you in front of the public office at 2:00 p.m.