"nc43" <nc43@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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>> Before you even waste your time on this, maybe you should say what your 
>> situation is -- visiting for a short term, living here, trying to make a 
>> budget so you can move here?  If you are visiting, just spend enough for 
>> a hotel room that has a LAN connection.  They're not much more than a 
>> hostel room, if at all.  You can use web based mail servers and just read 
>> your mail off the free PC in some hotel lobbies and at internet cafes. 
>> There's also inexpensive WiFi ...
>
> If I was to arrive in Tokyo with a laptop, how would I get cheap internet? 
> Is there free wireless everywhere?

I shall be moving about a lot largely in the countryside and will have to 
make do for the most part using private telephones in peoples houses.  Would 
anyone know of a good dial up provider please?