Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1991 16:42:50 GMT From: Jiro Nakamura Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Tokyo Moving to Eight Digit Phone Numbers Message-ID: Organization: Shaman Consulting Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 458, Message 5 of 10 Lines: 22 Hi - Has anyone noticed that Tokyo is now fully converted to eight digit numbers? I recently phoned a friend in Japan (I'm in Ithaca) at +81 3 701-xxxx and got a hurried message that the number was now +81 3 3 701-xxxx. It wasn't until I phoned him up that I realized that the area code for Tokyo had not switched to 33 (my immediate assumption) but that all the old seven digit numbers in Tokyo now had a 3 prepended to them: +81 3 3701-xxxx. As you all know, since about last year, all new numbers in Tokyo have been eight digits with a 5 in front of them: +81 3 5xxx-xxxx. But I didn't know that they had switched to all eight digits now. Jiro Nakamura jiro@shaman.com Shaman Consulting (607) 256-5125 VOICE (607) 277-1440 FAX/Data