How to Dial Japan

Once you have dialed the access number above, then dial:
00 81 followed by the local number you're calling in Japan

Fixed line operators in Japan include NTT, KDDI and SoftBank Telecom. Mobile network operators include NTT DoCoMo, au an SoftBank Mobile.

About Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of China, Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea in the south. The characters that make up Japan's name mean 'sun-origin', which is why Japan is sometimes identified as the 'Land of the Rising Sun'. In terms of size, Japan has a total area of 377,835 sq km which is slightly smaller than California. It has 374,744 sq km land area and 3,091 sq km water area. In 1603, a Tokugawa shogunate (military dictatorship) ushered in a long period of isolation from foreign influence in order to secure its power. For more than two centuries this policy enabled Japan to enjoy stability and a flowering of its indigenous culture. Following the Treaty of Kanagawa with the US in 1854, Japan opened its ports and began to intensively modernize and industrialize. The population of Japan is approximately 127,288,419. The population density of it is 337/sq km. It has a population growth rate of -0.139%. Most of Japan's people belong to Shinto and Buddhist religion. Official and most common language of those people is Japanese. It has 98.5% of Japanese and rest are Koreans and Chinese people. Government-industry cooperation, a strong work ethic, mastery of high technology, and a comparatively small defense allocation (1% of GDP) helped Japan advance with extraordinary rapidity to the rank of second most technologically powerful economy in the world after the US and the third-largest economy in the world after the US. Japan's gross domestic product (GDP) as of 2005 estimate is approximately $4.886 trillion with GDP of $38,341 per capita.

Calling Abroad with DialToSave

When you make calls with DialToSave, you connect to our phone systems using your own mobile or landline provider. When you dial the full international number we use discount lines to connect to local networks in Japan. We can provide you with cheap calls to Japan by bypassing more expensive providers such as BT when connecting your call and instead using a combination of internet and telephone services.

Cheap Phone Calls to Japan

DialToSave offers two of its own services that provide low cost calls to Japan. The first is CreditTalk whereby you purchase a £5 (or £10) credit which is sent to your mobile phone as a text message with a pin number. You can purchase the topup either by texting dts to 80556 or using the above link to pay by Paypal. Once you have the credit, you then call the local rate access number 020 8497 8844 and if prompted, enter the pin number, followed by the number that you are calling in Japan including 00 and the country code.

The other service is InstantTalk where you do not need to pre purchase any credit. However, we only know the prices for calling Japan from a landline using InstantTalk, not from a mobile. You simply dial the access number and wait for the prompts before dialing the Japan phone number, which to a landline in Japan is 0844 988 0252 and to a mobile in Japan is 0871 919 0252.

Local Area Codes in Japan

Abashiri District- Hokkaido - (0)1527, (0)152
Abiko- Chiba - (0)471
Abu District- Yamaguchi - (0)8388, (0)8387, (0)8395, (0)838
Abuta District- Hokkaido - (0)136, (0)142
Agatsuma District- Gunma - (0)287, (0)279
Agawa District- Kochi - (0)889
Age District- Mie - (0)59
Ageo- Saitama - (0)48
Aichi - (0)5613, (0)5617, (0)52, (0)561
Aida District- Okayama - (0)8687
Aiko District- Kanagawa - (0)462
Aioi- Hyogo - (0)7912
Aira District- Kagoshima - (0)995
Akabira- Hokkaido - (0)125
Akaiwa District- Okayama - (0)8699, (0)8695
Akan District- Hokkaido - (0)154
Akashi- Hyogo - (0)78
Aki District- Hiroshima - (0)823
Aki District- Kochi - (0)8873, (0)8874, (0)8872
Akiruno- Tokyo - (0)42
Akita - (0)188
Akkeshi District- Hokkaido - (0)153
Ako District- Hyogo - (0)7915
Ako- Hyogo - (0)7914
Akumi District- Yamagata - (0)234
Akune- Kagoshima - (0)996
Ama District- Aichi - (0)5675, (0)567, (0)5679
Amagi- Fukuoka - (0)946
Amakusa District- Kumamoto - (0)964, (0)9697, (0)969
Amata District- Kyoto - (0)773
Anan- Tokushima - (0)884
Anjo- Aichi - (0)566
Anpachi District- Gifu - (0)585, (0)584
Aomori - (0)172, (0)177
Arai- Niigata - (0)255
Arao- Kumamoto - (0)944
Arida District- Wakayama - (0)737
Asa District- Yamaguchi - (0)836
Asago District- Hyogo - (0)796
Asahi- Chiba - (0)479
Asahikawa- Hokkaido - (0)166
Asakuchi District- Okayama - (0)8654, (0)86542, (0)865, (0)86554
Asakura District- Fukuoka - (0)9437
Ashibetsu- Hokkaido - (0)1242, (0)167
Ashigarashimo District- Kanagawa - (0)465, (0)460
Ashikaga- Tochigi - (0)284
Ashikita District- Kumamoto - (0)966
Ashina District- Hiroshima - (0)847
Ashiya- Hyogo - (0)797, (0)798
Ashoro District- Hokkaido - (0)1562
Aso District- Kumamoto - (0)973, (0)9676, (0)967
Aso District- Tochigi - (0)283
Asuwa District- Fukui - (0)7797
Atami- Shizuoka - (0)557
Atetsu District- Okayama - (0)867
Atsumi District- Aichi - (0)5313, (0)53145, (0)5312
Atsuta District- Hokkaido - (0)133, (0)1337
Awa District- Chiba - (0)470
Awa District- Tokushima - (0)883
Ayama District- Mie - (0)595
Ayase- Kanagawa - (0)467
Ayauta District- Kagawa - (0)877
Bibai- Hokkaido - (0)1266
Bizen- Okayama - (0)869
Bungotakada- Oita - (0)978
Buzen- Fukuoka - (0)979
Chiba - (0)43, (0)474, (0)434
Chichibu District- Saitama - (0)493, (0)494, (0)274
Chikugo- Fukuoka - (0)942
Chikujo District- Fukuoka - (0)9305
Chino- Nagano - (0)266
Chita District- Aichi - (0)562, (0)569
Chitose- Hokkaido - (0)1452, (0)123
Chofu- Tokyo - (0)424, (0)422
Chosei District- Chiba - (0)475
Daito- Osaka - (0)72
Ebetsu- Hokkaido - (0)11
Ebino- Miyazaki - (0)984
Echi District- Shiga - (0)749, (0)748
Ena District- Gifu - (0)573, (0)572
Enuma District- Ishikawa - (0)7617
Esashi District- Hokkaido - (0)1634, (0)1636
Esashi- Iwate - (0)197
Fuchu- Tokyo - (0)423
Fugeshi District- Ishikawa - (0)768
Fuji- Shizuoka - (0)545
Fujiidera- Osaka - (0)729
Fujimi- Saitama - (0)492
Fujinomiya- Shizuoka - (0)544
Fujisawa- Kanagawa - (0)466
Fujitsu District- Saga - (0)954, (0)9546
Fujiyoshida- Yamanashi - (0)555
Fukagawa- Hokkaido - (0)164
Fukaya- Saitama - (0)485
Fukayasu District- Hiroshima - (0)849
Fukue- Nagasaki - (0)959
Fukui - (0)776
Fukuoka - (0)92
Fukuroi- Shizuoka - (0)538
Fukushima - (0)242, (0)24, (0)243
Funabashi- Chiba - (0)47
Funai District- Kyoto - (0)771
Furukawa- Miyagi - (0)229
Furuu District- Hokkaido - (0)135
Futaba District- Fukushima - (0)240
Futami District- Hiroshima - (0)824
Futtsu- Chiba - (0)439
Gamagori- Aichi - (0)533
Gifu - (0)58
Gobo- Wakayama - (0)738
Gojo- Nara - (0)7472
Gose- Nara - (0)721, (0)745
Gosen- Niigata - (0)250
Goshogawara- Aomori - (0)173
Gotenba- Shizuoka - (0)550
Gotsu- Shimane - (0)855
Gujo District- Gifu - (0)575
Gunma - (0)267
Hachinohe- Aomori - (0)178
Hachioji- Tokyo - (0)4996, (0)426
Hadano- Kanagawa - (0)463
Haga District- Tochigi - (0)28, (0)285
Haguri District- Aichi - (0)586
Haibara District- Shizuoka - (0)547, (0)548
Hakodate- Hokkaido - (0)138
Hakui- Ishikawa - (0)767
Hamamasu District- Hokkaido - (0)13379
Hamamatsu- Shizuoka - (0)53
Hanamaki- Iwate - (0)198
Hannan- Osaka - (0)724
Hanno- Saitama - (0)429
Haramachi- Fukushima - (0)244
Hashima District- Gifu - (0)58689
Hashimoto- Wakayama - (0)736
Hata District- Kochi - (0)8802, (0)880
Hiba District- Hiroshima - (0)82485, (0)8248, (0)8477, (0)82486
Hidaka District- Wakayama - (0)739
Higashichikuma District- Nagano - (0)263
Higashiibaraki District- Ibaraki - (0)29, (0)2955
Higashikamo District- Aichi - (0)564, (0)565
Higashikanbara District- Niigata - (0)2549
Higashikubiki District- Niigata - (0)2559
Higashikunisaki District- Oita - (0)9786
Higashimatsuura District- Saga - (0)955
Higashimurayama District- Yamagata - (0)236, (0)237
Higashimuro District- Wakayama - (0)5979, (0)73549, (0)7354, (0)7355, (0)7357
Higashiokitama District- Yamagata - (0)238
Higashishirakawa District- Fukushima - (0)247
Higashisonogi District- Nagasaki - (0)956, (0)957
Higashitagawa District- Yamagata - (0)235
Higashitonami District- Toyama - (0)763
Higashitsugaru District- Aomori - (0)174
Higashiusuki District- Miyazaki - (0)983, (0)982
Higashiuwa District- Ehime - (0)894
Higashiyatsushiro District- Yamanashi - (0)552
Hikami District- Hyogo - (0)795
Hikari- Yamaguchi - (0)833
Hikawa District- Shimane - (0)853
Himeji- Hyogo - (0)792
Hino District- Tottori - (0)859
Hioki District- Kagoshima - (0)993
Hirado- Nagasaki - (0)950
Hiraka District- Akita - (0)182
Hirara- Okinawa - (0)9807
Hiroo District- Hokkaido - (0)1558
Hiroshima - (0)82
Hitachi- Ibaraki - (0)294
Hiyama District- Hokkaido - (0)1396, (0)1395
Hofu- Yamaguchi - (0)835
Hojo- Ehime - (0)89
Honjo- Akita - (0)184
Honjo- Saitama - (0)495
Horoizumi District- Hokkaido - (0)1466
Ibara- Okayama - (0)866
Ibi District- Gifu - (0)58139
Ibo District- Hyogo - (0)791, (0)7932
Ichihara- Chiba - (0)436
Ichinoseki- Iwate - (0)191
Ichishi District- Mie - (0)598, (0)59856, (0)5984
Igu District- Miyagi - (0)224
Ihara District- Shizuoka - (0)543
Iida- Nagano - (0)265
Iinan District- Mie - (0)59832
Iishi District- Shimane - (0)854
Iiyama- Nagano - (0)269
Iizuka- Fukuoka - (0)9496, (0)948
Ikeda- Osaka - (0)727
Iki- Nagasaki - (0)9204
Ikoma District- Nara - (0)743
Imabari- Ehime - (0)898
Imadate District- Fukui - (0)778
Imaichi- Tochigi - (0)288
Inabe District- Mie - (0)594
Inashiki District- Ibaraki - (0)299, (0)298, (0)297
Inazawa- Aichi - (0)587
Inba District- Chiba - (0)476
Innoshima- Hiroshima - (0)8452
Inuyama- Aichi - (0)568
Isa District- Kagoshima - (0)9952
Ise- Mie - (0)599, (0)596
Isesaki- Gunma - (0)270
Ishigaki- Okinawa - (0)9808
Ishikari District- Hokkaido - (0)1332, (0)126
Ishikawa - (0)7619, (0)76
Ishinomaki- Miyagi - (0)225
Iwafune District- Niigata - (0)254
Iwaki- Fukushima - (0)246
Iwakuni- Yamaguchi - (0)827, (0)8275
Iwamizawa- Hokkaido - (0)1267
Iwanuma- Miyagi - (0)223
Iwase District- Fukushima - (0)248
Iwata District- Shizuoka - (0)539
Iwate - (0)195, (0)19
Iyomishima- Ehime - (0)896
Izumi- Osaka - (0)725
Jinseki District- Hiroshima - (0)8478
Joyo- Kyoto - (0)774
Kagawa - (0)87
Kagoshima - (0)9912, (0)99, (0)9913
Kaifu District- Tokushima - (0)8847
Kakamigahara- Gifu - (0)583
Kakegawa- Shizuoka - (0)537
Kako District- Hyogo - (0)794
Kamaishi- Iwate - (0)193
Kameyama- Mie - (0)5958
Kami District- Kochi - (0)8875
Kamiagata District- Nagasaki - (0)9208
Kamihei District- Iwate - (0)194
Kamiiso District- Hokkaido - (0)1392
Kamikawa District- Hokkaido - (0)16532, (0)1655, (0)16528, (0)1658, (0)1548, (0)16534, (0)1566
Kamikita District- Aomori - (0)176
Kamitsuga District- Tochigi - (0)289
Kamiukena District- Ehime - (0)892
Kamo District- Gifu - (0)574, (0)5747
Kamo District- Hiroshima - (0)8473
Kamo District- Shizuoka - (0)558
Kamo- Niigata - (0)256
Kamoto District- Kumamoto - (0)968
Kanoashi District- Shimane - (0)8567
Kanonji- Kagawa - (0)875
Kanoya- Kagoshima - (0)994
Kanzaki District- Hyogo - (0)790
Kariwa District- Niigata - (0)257, (0)258
Kasai District- Hokkaido - (0)155
Kasama- Ibaraki - (0)296
Kashihara- Nara - (0)744
Kashima District- Ibaraki - (0)478, (0)291
Kato District- Hokkaido - (0)1564
Katsura District- Tokushima - (0)8854
Katsuta District- Okayama - (0)868
Katsuyama- Fukui - (0)779
Kawanabe District- Kagoshima - (0)933
Kawanuma District- Fukushima - (0)241
Kawasaki- Kanagawa - (0)427, (0)44
Kayabe District- Hokkaido - (0)1372, (0)1374
Kazo- Saitama - (0)480
Kazuno- Akita - (0)186
Kesen District- Iwate - (0)192
Kesennuma- Miyagi - (0)226
Kimotsuki District- Kagoshima - (0)9942
Kiryu- Gunma - (0)277
Kisarazu- Chiba - (0)438
Kiso District- Nagano - (0)264
Kita District- Ehime - (0)893
Kitaazumi District- Nagano - (0)261
Kitagunma District- Gunma - (0)27
Kitaibaraki- Ibaraki - (0)293
Kitakatsushika District- Saitama - (0)489
Kitakoma District- Yamanashi - (0)551
Kitakyushu- Fukuoka - (0)93
Kitami- Hokkaido - (0)157
Kitamorokata District- Miyazaki - (0)986
Kitamuro District- Mie - (0)5973, (0)5974
Kitasaitama District- Saitama - (0)280
Kitashitara District- Aichi - (0)5368, (0)5366, (0)53683, (0)5367
Kitatsuru District- Yamanashi - (0)428
Kitauonuma District- Niigata - (0)2579
Kitauwa District- Ehime - (0)895
Kochi - (0)888
Komatsu- Ishikawa - (0)761
Konu District- Hiroshima - (0)84762, (0)82488, (0)84767
Koriyama- Fukushima - (0)249
Kudo District- Hokkaido - (0)1398
Kuga District- Yamaguchi - (0)820
Kuji District- Ibaraki - (0)2957
Kumage District- Kagoshima - (0)9974, (0)9972
Kumamoto - (0)96
Kumano District- Kyoto - (0)772
Kumano- Mie - (0)5978
Kunigami District- Okinawa - (0)980
Kurate District- Fukuoka - (0)9493, (0)9492
Kurayoshi- Tottori - (0)858
Kurihara District- Miyagi - (0)228
Kurobe- Toyama - (0)765
Kushima- Miyazaki - (0)987
Kusu District- Oita - (0)9737
Kyoto - (0)775, (0)726, (0)75
Mashita District- Gifu - (0)576
Masuda- Shimane - (0)856
Matsue- Shimane - (0)852
Matsumae District- Hokkaido - (0)1394
Menashi District- Hokkaido - (0)1538
Mie - (0)593
Mihara District- Hyogo - (0)799
Mihara- Hiroshima - (0)848
Mikata District- Fukui - (0)770
Minamiakita District- Akita - (0)185
Minamiamabe District- Oita - (0)972
Minamikoma District- Yamanashi - (0)556
Minamimuro District- Mie - (0)735
Minamishitara District- Aichi - (0)5363
Minamitsuru District- Yamanashi - (0)554
Mine District- Yamaguchi - (0)8376, (0)8396
Mine- Yamaguchi - (0)8375
Mishima- Shizuoka - (0)559
Mitsugi District- Hiroshima - (0)84732, (0)8487
Mitsuishi District- Hokkaido - (0)1463
Miura District- Kanagawa - (0)468
Miyagi - (0)22
Miyake- Tokyocoho - (0)4994
Miyako District- Fukuoka - (0)9304, (0)93033, (0)9302, (0)93032
Miyazaki - (0)985
Miyoshi- Hiroshima - (0)826
Monbetsu District- Hokkaido - (0)1587, (0)1586, (0)15829, (0)1584, (0)1588
Monbetsu- Hokkaido - (0)1582
Motosu District- Gifu - (0)581, (0)58138
Mugi District- Gifu - (0)58158, (0)58157
Munakata District- Fukuoka - (0)940
Muroran- Hokkaido - (0)143
Mutsu- Aomori - (0)175
Nagano - (0)26, (0)268
Nagaoka District- Kochi - (0)887
Nagasaki - (0)95
Nagato- Yamaguchi - (0)837
Naka District- Ibaraki - (0)292
Naka District- Tokushima - (0)8846
Nakagawa District- Hokkaido - (0)1557, (0)1656
Naoiri District- Oita - (0)974
Nara - (0)742
Nayoro- Hokkaido - (0)1654
Naze- Kagoshima - (0)997
Nemuro- Hokkaido - (0)1532
Niigata - (0)25
Niihama- Ehime - (0)897
Niikappu District- Hokkaido - (0)1464, (0)1456
Nima District- Shimane - (0)8548
Nishimuro District- Wakayama - (0)7356
Nishio- Aichi hazu District- Aichi - (0)563
Nitta District- Gunma - (0)276
Nogata- Fukuoka - (0)947
Notsuke District- Hokkaido - (0)1537
Numata- Gunma - (0)278
Ogachi District- Akita - (0)183
Ogasawara- Tokyo - (0)4998
Oita - (0)977, (0)975
Okawa District- Kagawa - (0)879
Okayama - (0)8636, (0)86
Oki District- Shimane - (0)8514
Okinawa - (0)98
Oku District- Okayama - (0)8692, (0)86926
Okushiri District- Hokkaido - (0)1397
Omagari- Akita - (0)187
Ono District- Gifu - (0)5769, (0)577
Osaka - (0)6, (0)723
Oshima District- Kagoshima - (0)9977
Oshima District- Yamaguchi - (0)8207
Oshima- Tokyocho - (0)4992
Otaru- Hokkaido - (0)134
Owase- Mie - (0)5972
Rebun District- Hokkaido - (0)1638
Rumoi District- Hokkaido - (0)1645
Ryotsu- Niigata - (0)259
Saeki District- Hiroshima - (0)8262, (0)829
Saga - (0)952
Sakai- Osaka - (0)722
Sannohe District- Aomori - (0)179
Saru District- Hokkaido - (0)1457
Satsuma District- Kagoshima - (0)9969
Sera District- Hiroshima - (0)8472
Setana District- Hokkaido - (0)1378
Shari District- Hokkaido - (0)1522
Shibetsu- Hokkaido - (0)1652
Shiga - (0)77
Shijonawate- Osaka - (0)7437
Shikama District- Hyogo - (0)7933
Shiki District- Nara - (0)7443
Shima District- Mie - (0)5998, (0)5995, (0)5994, (0)5997
Shimajiri District- Okinawa - (0)9802
Shimoagata District- Nagasaki - (0)9205
Shimoina District- Nagano - (0)260
Shimonoseki- Yamaguchi - (0)832
Shinjo- Yamagata - (0)233
Shinnanyo- Yamaguchi - (0)834
Shinshiro- Aichi - (0)5362
Shiranuka District- Hokkaido - (0)1547
Shiraoi District- Hokkaido - (0)144
Shizuoka - (0)54
Shobara- Hiroshima - (0)8247
Soekami District- Nara - (0)7439
Soraku District- Kyoto - (0)74395
Soya District- Hokkaido - (0)1635
Suzuka District- Mie - (0)5959
Takashima District- Shiga - (0)740
Takehara- Hiroshima - (0)846
Taki District- Mie - (0)5988, (0)5983, (0)59849, (0)5987
Tamano- Okayama - (0)863
Teshio District- Hokkaido - (0)1632, (0)162
Tochigi - (0)282
Tokushima - (0)886, (0)8853
Tokyo - (0)3
Tomamae District- Hokkaido - (0)1646, (0)1648
Tome District- Miyagi - (0)220
Tosashimizu- Kochi - (0)8808
Tottori - (0)857
Toyama - (0)764, (0)766
Toyohashi- Aichi - (0)532
Toyota District- Hiroshima - (0)8466
Urakawa District- Hokkaido - (0)1462
Uryu District- Hokkaido - (0)1653
Usui District- Gunma - (0)273
Wakayama - (0)734
Watarai District- Mie - (0)59872, (0)5996
Yamagata - (0)23
Yamaguchi - (0)839
Yamakoshi District- Hokkaido - (0)1377, (0)1376
Yamanashi - (0)553
Yame District- Fukuoka - (0)943
Yatsushiro- Kumamoto - (0)965
Yokohama- Kanagawa - (0)45
Yoshiki District- Gifu - (0)578
Yoshino District- Nara - (0)747, (0)7473, (0)7463
Yubari District- Hokkaido - (0)1238, (0)1237
Yubari- Hokkaido - (0)1235
Yufutsu District- Hokkaido - (0)1454