How can I loan a mobile phone in Japan? -

US phone is not working in Japan. I will be in Fukuoka for a week and do not want to miss my phone calls.

You can try loaning mobile phone from the narita airport mobile rental counter when you reach tokyo.

There are a couple of solutions to this. Check with your US carrier. I know that t-Mobile offers rental phones for Japan. YOu simply put your SIM card in the phone, and it will be just like your own phone while you are there. To Dial to the US, you must dial +1 then the area code. The other option is to buy a phone on eBay -- about $250 - $350. You buy an quot;unlockedquot; GSM - 3G phone. These work with any carrier, and you just use your own SIM card again. If you rent a phone in Japan, that works, too -- but you cannot generally use your own SIM card (check where you rent), and thus won t have your usual phone number. The airport has phone rental places. Use Vodaphone -- not Do-Ko-Mo!

you can rent mobile phones at the airport. If your us based mobile phone is upgradale to GSM, you can go into gsm roam mode while in Japan.