[Housetek]

well the guide is a basis, for the most part it holds true, just the shopping is my personal preference, if its not yours then just take that out of the equation.

you finding 1000 ticket is common... but search again in a few months

and it'll be 2000 Tickets change from season, and depending on what day.

Also i DID mention that you CAN get tickets for as low as 600 (w/o taxes) and can cost upwards to 2000.


Furthermore in other cellphone posts people ask me the same thing, due to some new law people outside of the country cant get phones with out a alien registration card or what ever.


I got mine new prepaid phone from Soft bank in March of 2007. all i needed was my Passport and the address of where i was currently staying.


Also the phone that i show in my video is your basic Prepaid phone.

7,000 Yen roughly 67 bucks or something.

Comes with decent features. Camera, text, email, Infrared so you can scan those lil menus outside of restraunts and some stores also it has a slot for a micro sd memory card to store things.

I went to the Shop in roppongi to get my phone.

This is how it all went down.

I knew from the website that with the new law i needed passport and a address of where i was living.

I brought my reciept from Sakura house just in case (but they didnt ask for it)

they just needed an adress.

I came in, and asked for a English speakin sales person.

I asked for a prepaid phone with 3k yen of call time on it and i wanted the 7k yen basic phone.

She took my passport, scanned it gave it back to me, i filled out a quick form and signed it. (was in english)

After that they set me up with a new email that can be sent to my phone and taught me how to add minutes to my phone using the prepaid phone card.

within 30 minutes i was out, and 30 mins after my phone was activated, it was up and working.

They say wait an 30 mins to a few hours toget it running.

But usually it works in 30 mins.

I was there for 3 months on my own and using my phone method and just textin people to call me. I only used 2 prepaid phone cards in the span of 3 months.

Which cost around 55 dollars or so.

some people are different and will use more or what ever but i just had people call me back instead of me calling them cuz out going calls can be costly.

my parents and my friends were able to call me at any time they wanted 2.

and in case of emergencies where i needed to call my parents i sent up a skype out account to My parents house in America.

it all worked out perfectly cuz i was in japan for 3 months and skype in/out numbers only cost 12 dollars for 3 months.