You can see from the dust that this public phone hasn't been used in awhile. Probably because everyone has a cellphone these days.
Lately many of the public phones have been taken away. I don't see these green public phones as much as I used to anymore. These three are at the Tokorozawa Station, patiently waiting for someone in need of a public phone.
As of last year, it's said that there are 105 million cellphone users in Japan, which has a population of about 127 million. So that's..what...80 percent? I have to wonder how this compares to other countries.
I've had a cell phone since my first year of high school. How about you?
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Great photo!
Love the colours, especially the light in the second. Very well framed!
((I've just found that in Italy there are 122 phones for every 100 inhabitants :X ))
I don't usually pay attention to public phones but now that you mention them I also think that I don't see many around... Interesting! :-)
haha, i;m a late bloomer, i had my 1st c.phone when i was in college. ^0^
ps:
the title reminded me of a song.
I like these photos and, like JM, I can't say I remember when I last saw a public phone. I love my computer and was the first among all my friends to get an email address... but cell phone!? Had to be bullied into getting one by my partner... and I still leave it around...
I had one, but thank god, there's no reception in my hills.
and I know it's good for going about town or state to state, etc., but I hate feeling tracked down and tied.
(Your public phones are kind of snazzy. Ours look like something out of film noir.)
I don't know what it is in the US, but I would assume something absurd!
i like the photo of the 3 green phones :) It's a pity that public phones deasapear ,there are so convenient for the population who can't afford or doen't want a cell phone .
Hi everyone! Thank you for all the comments and new info :D
Lisergic S, 122 for every 100??? WOW! They must really like their cells over there ;-D
Arabesque, I was humming the song while posting, hehe :D
Fracisca, I also had a very old cellphone while all my friends had the newest high-tech ones! But now I seem to have joined the crowd, although I'm still terrible at answering text messages :-)
Altadenahiker, very true! I'd forgotten how great it was to be cellphone free until I lost it for a few days. It's heaven not having to check every other minute if you've gotten a call, msg, etc! ;-D
JM, Babzy, they really are disapearing slowly but steadily. And it really is convenient at times! :-)
T. Becque, I'm sure the US exceeds us. The iPhone is starting to become popular here, too. :D
I have been looking at the green phones thinking, “Oh, yeah, those look familiar.” Then I realized that they could be now or in the future part of a museum diorama. Well, the museum can use your photo to learn how best to display them: When the time comes (please don’t tell me, “yesterday”).
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