# Calling from Japan

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-from-japan/182605>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 18, 2003, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-from-japan/182605 "2003-06-18T02:26:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![reoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a9adbd/32.png) [@reoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reoch)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-from-japan/182605/1 "2003-06-18T02:26:06Z")

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Hi folks

I’ll be going to Japan for about a month or two and would like a cheap solution for calling back to the US. Here, whenever I need to make a call to the mainland US (I’m in Hawaii) I use a phone card…is there anything like that or other solutions?

Thanks for all your help.

Reo A

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**Author:** ![jovan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/0ea827/32.png) [@jovan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jovan)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-from-japan/182605/2 "2003-06-18T03:33:59Z")

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Maybe ten years ago, calling abroad used to cost a fortune as the only way to do it was through KDD.

Barring internet phone, the cheapest way now is indeed phone cards. The cheapest I found are Brastel (yes, that’s right, Brasil telephone) cards. More info here: [http://www.brastel.com/Main/Eng.html](http://www.brastel.com/Main/Eng.html)