djcl@contact.uucp (woody) (03/12/91)
I spotted an English-language "NTT News" flyer last month which mentioned an English-language information phone line run by NTT's Town Net division. This is generally intended to offer assistance in English to those in Japan (visiting or otherwise). Most calls are for Directory Assistance (about 70%) though calls for emergencies, community information, etc. are encountered. The numbers can be called with no charge (other than the normal local call charges). The numbers as listed in the March '90 NTT News articles are: Tokyo (03) 201.1010 [i think that should now be 3201.1010 as Tokyo cut over to 8 digit local numbers since that time; someone please post if this assumption is incorrect]; Yokohama (045) 322.1010; Narita (0476) 28.1010. The NTT News address as listed in that issue was Public Relations Department, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, 1-6 Uchi Sai Waicho, 1-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 100 Japan.