heh had to round it.. duh

not that bad for calling Japan, I will have to test it out more when I get my wireless CF card. and a bluetooth headset.

SubaruWRX wrote:

heh had to round it.. duh not that bad for calling Japan, I will have to test it out more when I get my wireless CF card. and a bluetooth headset.

that's very cheap indeed you probably only pay the local japanese prices. Cause isn't calling locally within the US free?
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supermidget wrote:

Cause isn't calling locally within the US free?

Actually there is cost with every call. If you call a local number, I think it's 0.1 cents/min, or something quite small. Long distance calls cost 5 cents/min depending on what plan you have.

Incidentially, isn't calls within Japan cost Y10/min? Since I use the magnetic calling cards, I'm not sure.

supermidget wrote:

that's very cheap indeed you probably only pay the local japanese prices. Cause isn't calling locally within the US free?

calling another Skype user is free but not free calling say like a person down the street, you get charged the same rate. Just think of it..

Calling from the internet, then having to go into the Telephone network.

here are the rates

http://www.skype.com/products/skypeout/rates/all_rates.html?currency=USD

dochira wrote:

Incidentially, isn't calls within Japan cost Y10/min? Since I use the magnetic calling cards, I'm not sure.

really depends, doch.

if you call land-line to land-line, it's more expensive than calling cellphone to cellphone. if you call land-line to cell, it's expensive. if you call long distance, that's also quite expensive.

here's some advice: when you stick that phone card into the payphone, it often displays a certain amount of minutes - this is NOT accurate. not even close. i called my friend (different prefecture, but not a cellphone) and i had about 16min on the display. less than five min later, it was all gone.

as i saw the minutes dropping, and so i dropped 10yen into the payphone. nothing. i dropped 100yen. nothing. another 100yen. nothing. the call cut off. i hung up, and my change popped out. i guess if you use a calling card, you can't add to the call by dropping in more cash??

lol no sooner then I talk about JFK airport yesterday, I went there at like 12:30 AM.. my cousin was coming in from LA.. lol and guess what I saw all lit up...

Thats right JAL!

I'm getting closer!

haha it was funny when we stepped out of the Limo, it was a 2005 Caddy LOL everyone at the baggage claim area looked at up, and that was like some 25 people.

Oh and speaking to my cousin she also said she wants to go to Japan as well! and have always wondered what it's like staying other places for a long time.

Now I've got Japanese tv on my pda!



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SubaruWRX wrote:

Now I've got Japanese tv on my pda! [img=http://img220.echo.cx/img220/3549/picture11279ha.th.jpg]

wow that's really hot! I've tried watching drama on a pda from a 128mb memory card as well, and it works perfectly. Now i'm just trying to find a cheap-ass Pocket PC, because the one i tested it on was my dads's.
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lol I so can't wait till I get the wireless card, and call to Japan

right now I'm just wow this thing is great!

I really want the Dell Axim X50V VGA screen 480x600 thats big!

but it's alot of money but check Ebay!

Thats where I got this Pda from, and I only got it for $100 by bidding on it, I was the only lucky bidder on it and I got it for a Steal!

Yu Yamada is big here, saw a bunch of advertisements, and poster boards of her from cell phone stores voda phone, and look for her everywhere on magazines and all over in japan along with Aya Ueto. For good J-idol goods i recommend Akihabara, and Nakano Broadway Mall, spend a good part of your day shopping for anime/j-idol stuff. Japan, there is so much to do, and the subway/train systems are extremely confusing for the Gajin, but you will start to get use to it after a few days or so. I am going to miss it and i took a ton of pix here, so it was worth the time and money, I am going to head back home soon, with Japan in mind. Done so much and saw so many beautiful J-girls, kind of makes me want to move out here for numerous reason.

Ahhh your killing me...

I WANT 2 GO 2 JAPAN TOO!!!!!
why i'm still stuck in here???!!!
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lol money is the only thing holding me back.. Peices of paper!

Hmm I got a email from ANA flight from JFK to NRT for $704 I think it was, but it was next month

SubaruWRX wrote:

Hmm I got a email from ANA flight from JFK to NRT for $704 I think it was, but it was next month

jet-lagged some, but all so worth it. Just got back from my trip to japan. The flight took 10hr 40min going, and 8hr 30 min coming back. Makes me just want to go again and again, even better move out and teach english for a year or so. you should look into that flight $704, that is a good airfare, does that include tax? my flight was $716, plus $124 tax/fees, so it was $840 total.
btw: i took some pix of Yu Yamada passing by large advertisments of her by store windows, etc....she is quite popular here. I am sure they have tons of mag's, photobooks, and j-idol cards here on her, i know there is a lot of Aya Ueto in japan. I will try to post some Yu pix sometime, if i can figure out how to upload from my digicam/hd computer onto here, the pix is high res, so it might be awhile.

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jet-lagged some, but all so worth it. Just got back from my trip to japan. The flight took 10hr 40min going, and 8hr 30 min coming back. Makes me just want to go again and again, even better move out and teach english for a year or so. you should look into that flight $704, that is a good airfare, does that include tax? my flight was $716, plus $124 tax/fees, so it was $840 total. btw: i took some pix of Yu Yamada passing by large advertisments of her by store windows, etc....she is quite popular here. I am sure they have tons of mag's, photobooks, and j-idol cards here on her, i know there is a lot of Aya Ueto in japan. I will try to post some Yu pix sometime, if i can figure out how to upload from my digicam/hd computer onto here, the pix is high res, so it might be awhile.

Welcome back! No doubt you had some fun over there. I can't wait for those pics.

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Welcome back! No doubt you had some fun over there. I can't wait for those pics.

thanks, where do i begin, i had so much fun, and i could spend all day in Akihabara and Nakano all day looking at anime/j-idol stuff.
btw: I saw some good photobooks on Yukie, around 2800 yen, didn't get a chance to get hers, you could possibly get it off the internet, but you will have to pay the shipping costs.
Also, just started collecting j-idol cards, they have stores there and i got some, chinatsu, aya-chan, miyako, and others....didn't get any yukie, but quite sure they had a lot of her too.
yeah, tons of pix while in japan, but only a few of j-girls up close, i only asked a few of them to take there pix.

Welcome back qilver! Glad to see you had a great time.

Welcome back, Q...!

thanks everyone!, i had such a great time in Japan!, spent a lot, but it was so worth it!, i am jet lagged, it's 10pm here in so-cal Sunday and it is currently 2pm Monday in Japan, so i am a bit off on the time, so it will take awhile to adjust again.

will try to post some pix from my trip sometime soon, they are high res pix though, so it might be awhile to post.