1900
  • First Automatic Telephones (Public Telephone) Appeared at Shinbashi and Ueno Stations
  • A box-type automatic telephone (public telephone) was installed at the foot of Kyobashi bridge
    1903
  • Debut of Common-Battery Public Telephone
    1911
  • At the close of the Meiji Era, Red Hexagonal Phone Booths Appear
    1925
  • The "automatic telephone" renamed the "public telephone"
    1927
  • Tokyo Metropolitan Public Telephone Booths Change from Hexagonal Red Design to Light-Gray Square Style
    1945
  • The 1945 Public Phone Box: The Prefabricated Barracks Style
    1947
  • Public Phones at Shimbashi Station Accept Currency
  • Post-war model public telephone box appears
    1951
  • A Simplified Public Telephone
    1952
  • Consigned Public Telephones
    1953
  • Simplified Phone and Consignment Phones Become "The Red Phone"
  • Coin-Operated Public Telephones
    1954
  • "Red Cap" Style Public Phone Boxes Appear
    1955
  • No. 5 Automatic Desktop Public Telephone Set
    1957
  • Kinki Railways Inaugurate Public Telephone Service on Express Trains
    1960
  • The Pink Telephone (Special Simplified Public Telephone Set)
    1965
  • Public telephone service from railway carriages on the Tokaido Shinkansen introduced
    1966
  • Large Size Red Public Telephone Set Introduced
    1968
  • The Large Blue Public Telephone
    1969
  • Four-Sided Glass Public Phone Booths
  • Local Public Calls Cut Off after 3 Minutes
    1971
  • New Type "Red Phone" Introduced
    1972
  • Large Scale Pink Phones
  • 100 Yen Public Phones
    1973
  • New green telephone appears
    1975
  • Push-Button Type 100-Yen Public Telephones
    1982
  • Card Operated Public Telephones Introduced. First Card Phone Placed in Tokyo's Sukiyabashi Park
    1985
  • The 100 Yen Pink Telephone
    1986
  • Public In-Flight Telephone Service Begins
    1988
  • Auto-Dialing Phone Cards Introduced
    1989
  • Card-Style Pink Telephones
    1990
  • Digital Public Phones
    1991
  • New Type Digital Public Telephone Set
    1992
  • 3,000 and 5,000-Yen Phone Cards Go Off Market
    1993
  • Public Telephone Calling Rates Revised

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