Wind phone
Telephone booth in Ōtsuchi, Japan / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The wind phone (Japanese: 風の電話, romanized: kaze no denwa) is a telephone booth in the town of Ōtsuchi in Japan. People go to the wind phone to say things to their family members or friends who have died. It was built by Itaru Sasaki, a garden designer, in 2010, after his cousin died. In 2011, after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami killed over 15,000 people in the area, he opened the wind phone so everyone could use it. Over 30,000 people have gone there since then. People have built copies in different countries, and there are books and movies about it.
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風の電話 | |
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Type | Telephone booth |
Location | Ōtsuchi, Iwate |
Country | Japan |
Coordinates | 39°23′10″N 141°55′55″E |
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