Telephone & Telegram

- New phone installation
Apply at the nearest NTT office with an foreigner registration card or
Japanese driver's license and sign a contract. Then set installation date
and tell them your address.
When you move, notify NTT in advance.
- How to make a phone call from a public hpone
- Lift the receiver. Insert \100 or \10 coins or a telehpone card. Aftter
hearing the dial tome(a hum), dial the number.
- When you call to Osaka from Wakayama,dial 06-2083-7413.
- 06 : area cord
208 : city/suburb prefix
7413 : house number
- In the city
dial 32-0001 continously
- 32 : city/suburb prefix
0001 : house number
- Public telephone
You can see different color public telephones at almost every corner of
the city or in front of stores. There are yellow, blue, red, pink,green
amd grai ones. Telephone cards are available for green and grai public
trlrphones.
Trlrphones card can obtained at stores where public telephones are installed.
- International tekephone
- Calling the KDD operator
Dial 0051 and give the person's name and telephone number. You can choose
3 types of calling
- person to person
- number to number
- collect call
- International Direct Dial
This is a direct dialing system for international call. It is cheaper than
operator-assisted call above.
(In some area, you will have to register at KDD)
- You can choose Nihon Kokusai Tushin(ITJ) and Kokusai Degitalu Tushin(IDC)
other than KDD.
- forinformation
- ITJ : 012-44-0041
IDC : 012-03-0061
- Others
Some card-type, green public telephones can be used forinternational call
as well as communication with operator is available by telehopne card or
coins.
- Telegram
- Domestic telegrams Dial 115
- International telegran 03-344-5151
- Dial 06-204-1171
The telephone charge is free.
*Inquiry regarding general international communication, call KDD Osaka
0120-068686.(the telephone charge is free.