Calling Japan
from the United States explained:
- 011 - US exit code; must be dialed first for all international calls made from the USA or Canada
- 81 - country code for Japan
- area code - 1 - 5 digit codes
- phone number - 4 - 8 digits; area code + phone number total 9 digits for landlines
Area Codes:
| Asahikawa | 166 | Kawaguchi | 48 | Osaka | 6 |
| Chiba | 43 | Kawasaki | 44 | Sakai | 72 |
| Fukuoka | 92 | Kita-Kyushu | 93 | Sapporo | 11 |
| Funabashi | 47 | Kobe | 78 | Sendai | 22 |
| Gifu | 58 | Kurashiki | 86 | Shimizu | 543 |
| Hachioji | 42 | Kyoto | 75 | Shizuoka | 54 |
| Hamamatsu | 53 | Matsudo | 47 | Tokyo | 3 |
| Hateruma | 9808 | Matsuyama | 89 | Toyonaka | 6 |
| Himeji | 79 | Nagasaki | 95 | Urawa | 48 |
| Hiroshima | 82 | Nagoya | 52 | Utsunomiya | 28 |
| Ichikawa City | 47 | Niigata | 25 | Wakayama | 73 |
| Kagoshima | 99 | Oita | 97 | Yokohama | 45 |
| Kanazawa | 76 | Okayama | 86 | Yokosuka | 46 |
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- 50 - code for VoIP numbers regardless of geographic location
How to
dial to Japan cellular:
- for calls to a cell phone dial: 011 + 81 + 80 ???? ???? (or 90 ???? ????)
Phone
Books:
- iTownPage - business directory