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Communications in Japan
By phoneInternational dialling prefixes vary from company to company. Check with your operator for more details. For international calls to Japan, the country code is 81.
Emergency call
Emergency call can be made from any phone at free of charge: call 110 for police or call 119 for fire and ambulance.
Pay telephones
Payphones are easily found, particularly near train stations. Gray and green pay phones accept ¥10 and ¥100 coins, and pre-paid cards
Mobile phones
Modern Japanese mobile phones tend to operate on unique cellular standards not always compatible with the rest of the world. For instance, most Japanese 2G mobile phones operate on the Personal Digital Cellular (PDC) standard, which was developed and is used exclusively in Japan. In a nutshell:
2G phones (GSM, CDMA etc) from the rest of the world do not work in Japan. Even Quad-band GSM phones are useless.
3G phones using the UMTS/WCDMA2100 standard and equipped with a 3G SIM card may work. If your phone is up to spec, double-check with your carrier if they have a roaming agreement with either SoftBank or NTT DoCoMo. If you don't have a 3G phone but you do have a 3G-compatible SIM card, you can rent a 3G phone in Japan and slot in your card, allowing you to keep your home phone number in Japan. Some of these companies (including Air's) allow you to send and receive emails.
By mail
You can send postcards to anywhere in the world for ¥70. Public mail deposit boxes are found throughout Japan. They have two slots, one for regular domestic mail, and the other for overseas and express mail.
By net
Internet cafés can be found in or around many train stations. Here, you can upload your pictures from a digital camera, and if you forgot your cable, some cafés will lend you a memory card reader for free. Manga coffee shops (manga-kissa) usually have Internet PCs as well. A number of business hotels have Internet access available if you have your own computer, It is also possible to find Wi-Fi "hot spots" around many large cities in Japan, especially near tech-related businesses and large corporate buildings with unsecured wireless networks
(the Apple store in Ginza, Tokyo has a fast, open 802.11n connection).
3G Wireless Data is available, and if you have international data roaming, you should roam with no problem. GPRS does not work in Japan. Please see the section on Mobile Phones for additional information including phone/data card compatibility. Remember, the same
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Japan Overview
Posted by Miss Ashley on 21 April 2010 11:15:02
The "Land of the Rising Sun”, Japan, known as Nihon or Nippon in Japanese, is an island nation in East Asia. Japan is the wealthy nation with culture stretches back millennia, yet has also adopted (and created) the latest modern fashions and trends. Japan is a study in contrasts and contr... More
Communications in Japan
Posted by Mr. Aadu Sye on 04 January 2010 10:17:05
By phone International dialling prefixes vary from company to company. Check with your operator for more details. For international calls to Japan, the country code is 81. Emergency call Emergency call can be made from any phone at free of charge: call 110 for police or call 119 fo... More
Accommodation in Japan
Posted by Mr. Aadu Sye on 04 January 2010 10:16:52
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