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Internet and Email Several door-to-door delivery bookstores, and in some
Internet cafés are not as plentiful services (takkyubin), including convenience stores. These
as might be expected, but access Yamato and Sagawa- Kyubin, newspapers, and The Mainichi
to the Internet is slowly on the offer prompt and efficient Daily News and The Asahi
rise. Kinko’s provides Internet services through out Japan. Shimbun are also available
access at its branches through- Small packages can be sent online. The best publication
out the city. Some computer via these courier services for business and technology
stores, including Apple, also from convenience stores and is the Nikkei Weekly.
provide free Internet access. other shops. International Imported magazines can be
For a list of Wi-Fi hotspots, courier services include found at foreign-language book-
check www.freespot.com/ FedEx and DHL. stores. Free English-language
users/map-e/map_tokyo.html; magazines are also easily avail-
however, bear in mind that able. In particular, Metropolis and
many of the entries may be Newspapers the Tokyo Weekender have exten-
and Magazines
out of date. The lobbies of sive listings and classified ads.
large hotels sometimes have Two English-language daily Metropolis is also available online
free Wi-Fi access, as do many newspapers – The Japan Times, (http://metropolisjapan.com);
cafés, pubs, convenience and The Japan News (formerly another useful website is Japan
stores, and most of the The Daily Yomiuri) – are sold at Today (www.japantoday.com).
Tokyo subway stations. kiosks in train stations, major
hotels, foreign-language
Television and Radio
Postal Services The state public broadcaster,
Post offices (yubin-kyoku) and NHK, has two terrestrial and two
mailboxes can be identified satellite TV channels. Its 7pm
by a character looking like and 9pm news bulletins (7pm
the letter “T” with an extra on weekends) can be heard in
horizontal bar across the top. English on bilingual TV stations,
Main post offices are usually which are often available in
open 9am–5pm on weekdays hotels. Other networks include
and 9am–12:30pm on Nippon TV, TBS, Fuji TV, and TV
Saturdays. Smaller post offices Asahi. Check Metropolis for
may open 9am–4:30pm on English-language programs.
weekdays, but they are often Overseas networks are widely
closed on weekends. Stamps available via cable or satellite.
are also sold at convenience NHK Radio airs news and
stores and larger hotels. classical music on both
All post offices provide AM and FM. There are several
EMS express mail services. commercial radio stations in
For urgent mail, the Tokyo Tokyo: J-Wave (www.j-wave.
Central Post Office and co.jp) and Inter FM (www.
Shinjuku Post Office both Selection of local newspapers at a Tokyo interfm.co.jp) offer some
provide all-night counters. newsstand programs in English.
DIRECTORY
International and Tel 0041 (international Internet and Email FedEx
Local Telephone call service access code). Tel 0120-00-3200
Calls Tel 0066-11 & Kinko’s (toll-free).
∑ kinkos. co.jp
KDDI 0088-41 (toll-free info). ∑ fedex.com/jp_
english
Tel 001 (access code). ∑ tm.softbank.jp/ Apple
Tel 0057 (toll-free info). english 3-5-12 Ginza, Chuo-ku. Shinjuku Post Office
∑ kddi.com Tel (03) 5159-8200. 1-8-8 Nishi-Shinjuku,
Mobile Phones ∑ apple.com/jp Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo.
NTT Communications Tel (03) 3340-9512.
Tel 0033 (access code). NTT DoCoMo Postal Services
Tel 0120 54-0033 + 8# ∑ nttdocomo.com Toyko Central Post
(toll-free info). DHL Office
∑ 506506.ntt.com/ Rentafone Japan Tel 0120-39-2580, then 0. 2-7-2 Marunouchi,
english/service/p_card ∑ rentafone ∑ dhl.co.jp/en.html Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo.
japan.com Tel (03) 3217-5231
SoftBank Telecom EMS (domestic mail);
Tel 0061 (domestic long- SoftBank Mobile ∑ post.japanpost.jp/ (03) 3284-9540
distance access code). ∑ mb.softbank.jp/en int/ems/index_en.html (international mail).

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