traveling in Japan

Hello,

A friend will be traveling south of Osaka in Japan soon.
She in a California Verizon customer with a Samsung phone.
What are her options in Japan?
Is renting a cell phone at the Osaka airport and returning it in two weeks a
good idea?

Thank you for your help.

"Harold Heringhi" <harold_heringhi@msn.com> wrote in
news:LE2Qj.3111$26.2708@newssvr23.news.prodigy.net:

> Hello,
>
> A friend will be traveling south of Osaka in Japan soon.
> She in a California Verizon customer with a Samsung phone.
> What are her options in Japan?
> Is renting a cell phone at the Osaka airport and returning it in two
> weeks a good idea?
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
>
>
>

This one looks very interesting:
http://www.myjapanphone.com/latest_promotion.htm
Look at "Japan Cell Phone Rental" down the page under the Fuji promo.

1st week FREE rental but you must use the $30 in long distance airtime,
which will be no problem. Call USA for UNDER a dollar a minute! Hell,
that beats Verizon calling Japan by 40%! $.70/min Japan calls.

And here's the kicker I liked:
ALL INCOMING CALLS ARE FREE FROM ANYWHERE! If YOU call THEM in Japan, they
pay NO AIRTIME!

only $2/day after the free week.....which is also dirt cheap from the
others I looked at....$14/week.

Get it before you leave, return it when you get back to the USA, no
searching for it in a strange city with millions of people....another real
feature unless you're from Osaka...(c;

Look around for the best VoIP calling rates to Japan mobiles, some as cheap
as a couple of pennies per minute from your PC...and the person on the
rental phone in Japan above pays nothing extra!