Public Telephones

There are phone booths on the streets of Tokyo, but more often there are small telephone boxes like this one outside a convenience store. Green telephones are for domestic calls; calls within Japan. Gray telephones are for domestic and international calls. This gray telephone was between two green ones at a train station.

There is also a pink telephone that is used for local calls only. It can be used to call numbers in your area code. I have seen them at small stores and clinics, but I haven't been able to find one to take a picture. Pink telephones are coin-operated. Telephone cards can be used in the green and gray telephones. They can be bought at convenience stores.

It seems like there aren't many public telephones on the street in my neighborhood shopping area anymore. They can usually be found in public buildings, office buildings, hospitals, and train stations.