(keitai-l) Re: Jphone/ gaijin friendly store?

From: Tom Motoyoshi Kalland <tmk_at_infeline.org>
Date: 06/02/03
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0306020753330.10028-100000@lexx.infeline.org>
nick,

i got my au phone while on 3 months tourist visa and with no alien card 
(had visa card tho).

"you can't rent an apartment without the alien registration card"-landlord
"you can't get an alien registration card without an address"-ward office
:)

.tmk


On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Nick May wrote:
> 
> Just out of interest - has anyone tried to get a phone while on a tourist
> visa,without credit card, BUT they also had a toeragshomei?
> 
> Nick
> 
> (for poeople outside Japan, the "Gaikokujin touroku-shoumei" -
> colloquially, the "gaijin-toerag card" is the alien registration card
> that all foreigners other than those on tourist visas are required to
> carry. (BUT you can get one with only a tourist visa, if you choose...)
Received on Mon Jun 2 08:59:56 2003