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> Prepaid International Phone Card
You can get prepaid international phone cards at convinience stores in Japan.
The charts below campare the three types of prepaid international phone cards, which are all available at major convinience stores in Japan without any application in Japan.
As you can see, the rates of brastel phonecard is the cheapest.
* Price is yen and rounded.
As you can see, the rates of brastel phonecard is the cheapest.
>> Types of Phone Card
| Card | Company | Type | Price (How much you can use) |
|---|---|---|---|
| World Prepaid Card | NTT | Non-rechargable | 1000 (1110) yen |
| 3000 (3400) yen | |||
| 5000 (5750) yen | |||
| Super World Card PLUS TEXT | KDDI | Non-rechargable | 1000 (1050) yen |
| 3000 (3200) yen | |||
| 5000 (5350) yen | |||
| 7000 (7850) yen | |||
| Brastel Smart Phonecard | brastel | Rechargable | 2000 yen |
| 3000 yen | |||
| 5000 (5150) yen | |||
| 10000 (10500) yen |
>> Rates of Phone Card
| From fixed-line telephone | NTT | KDDI | brastel | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day | Night | Day | Night | 24-hrs | |
| USA - Mainland | 50 | 30 | 47 | 28 | 8 |
| U.K | 130 | 40 | 140 | 94 | 9 |
| Australia | 146 | 100 | 140 | 94 | 10 |
| China | 20 | 20 | 9 | ||
| Korea | 22 | 21 | 10 | ||
| From cell phone | NTT | KDDI | brastel | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day | Night | Day | Night | 24-hrs | |
| USA - Mainland | 109 | 60 | 103 | 56 | 24 |
| U.K | 1220 | 120 | 225 | 122 | 24 |
| Australia | 184 | 110 | 178 | 104 | 25 |
| China | 35 | 38 | 24 | ||
| Korea | 38 | 36 | 25 | ||