Besides the front side, I am also very much interested in the information
on the reverse side, because it helps me to catalogue and classify the
cards.
You will recognize some numbers in the lower right corner.
The first number is the value of the card, in this case 105 telephone
units. This is also encoded by the three vertical bars. 50-unit cards have
2 bars.
The next number in the brackets is very informative. The first 3 digits
encode the issuing NTT office.
number | issuing office | including the following prefectures |
111 | nation wide | --- |
230 or 231 | Tokyo | --- |
250 or 251 | Kanto | Kanagawa. |
270 or 271 | Shin-etsu | Niigata |
290 or 291 | Chuubu | Gifu, Shizuoka, Mie |
310 or 311 | Hokuriku | Fukui, Kanazawa. |
330 or 331 | Kansai | Osaka, Kyoto. |
350 or 351 | Chuugoku | Hiroshima, Yamaguchi |
370 or 371 | Shikoku | . |
390 or 391 | Kyushu+Okinawa | Fukuoka. |
410 or 411 | Tohoku | Akita, Miyagi, Aomori |
430 or 431 | Hokkaido | --- |
1. The so called free cards. Each motif has it's own number The two
goemetric signs in front of the -110- mean 'free' in japanese. These cards
are mostly commercial cards. They are sometimes produced in large quantities.
There exist many different reverse sides, which are more or less similar.
2. The model cards. These are cards with a fixed background and it is
possible to have a message printed on top of that background. Very often
these cards are used by small private enterprizes for advertisement. Up
to now there are around 1000 different model cards. The reverse side looks
like this. The three characters in front of the 110 mean 'model' in japanese
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