Searching for a Japanese Telephone Number
I got a call from an unknown number on my Keitai but didn’t answer it. It looked like a business number with repeating parts (043-224-1010) and I knew that it was in Chiba by the first 3 digits. Being paranoid, instead of calling it back I went and searched on the internet. It turns out that the best way to search is to break the number into 3 parts like above and search for that. If you search for 0432241010, it comes back with nothing useful. I put 千葉 into the search too, and came back with Yodobashi Camera in Chiba city.
Since google maps has business phone numbers with their address data, searching for the number (in the correct form) comes up with Yodobashi as well, along with a nice pointer on the map.
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