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Communications and the Media:
Faxes, Email and the Internet
Several hotels and youth hostels provide services of fax for a small charge, while if you are invited generally the fax is free. Instead, most central post office or convenience stores (often open 24 hrs) have public fax machines.
The Internet and e-mail grew slowly in Japan, but several main cities now have many Cybercafé, and Web sites are booming. The free access at NTT offices and other places are fast disappearing; in an Internet cafe you should assume to pay around ¥500 or less per hour.
If you wish to get your emails, however, and you're not having your own computer, you might want to set up an account with a Web-based email service, such as Hotmail or Yahoo! Mail, before leaving home.
Cybercafés are fast, although the copyshop Kinko's is very reliable and possesses branches in several main cities, and the general store chain Lawson is to install computers with Internet access into its 7000 outlets nationwide.
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