Phone services when you first come to Japan

Are you planning to change your cellphone to an international plan in your home country phone provider? Then stop immediately!

I warmly recommend you to just to program your home country phone services to end several days after your arrival in Japan.

Why is that? Because you will desperately need a Japanese phone number to do so many things here. From renting an apartment to receiving an amazon parcel or contracting electricity, a japanese phone number will be needed.

For the first few days you can buy a weekly or monthly sim card at the airport or rent a pocket wifi for several thousand yen.

When you have a little bit of time you can then go make a phone service contract with an online provider or at your local shop.