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I'm liberating this one from the evil empire. The original poster recently saw this one at Nagoya, evidently one of the few-ish remaining ones in service. Their post title was:

Orange backlit LCD, check! Phone card slot, check! Japan in 1982 was the future! (An endangered species spotted at Nagoya station)

More examples & angles:
https://www.google.com/search?q=classic+green+NTT+public+payphone+from+Japan&udm=2

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[-] dookie0000@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I'm in Japan now and I ran into several of these ISDN phones. There is one at Sky Tree station too. This one is from Akiba.

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