"kuri" <cc@dotmel.cam> wrote in message
news:dvgf3p$r1d$1@bgsv5648.tk.mesh.ad.jp...
> The problem is if
> you don't use your card telephone for a number of monthes, they cancel the
> line. Then you have to repay 10000 yen (and regive a proof of adress) to
get
> a new number and use it again.

Well, you have to buy a 3000 yen prepaid every 8 months, that is not that
expensive.

I bought my prepaid phone for less than 7000 yens (including the 3000 yen
card) two months ago at Vodaphone Shinjuku, I don't know why it was this
inexpensive. On the same day I saw the very same Vodaphone prepaid phone for
more than 7000 yens (3000 yen card NOT included). It is a mistery but it
works fine with me!