In Japan and Taiwan, there is a superstition that four is an unlucky number because the number four has the identical pronunciation as the word ‘death’, so most people tend to avoid it and most hotels don’t use the number four.
Reference: http://www.topics-mag.com/internatl/superstitions/japan.htm
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