Free WIFI Has Arrived In Yokosuka's Main Shopping Streets

On 10 December 2019, NTT Higashi Nihon (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone East Corporation) started free WIFI service in several shopping street (Sho-Ten-Gai 商店街) locations around Yokosuka City.

NTT's business initiative was spurred by the increase in recent years of foreign visitors and the growth of Japan's tourism industry.

"Yokosuka-Free-WiFi" has been installed at Kinugasa-Oh-Dori, Kinugasa Naka-Dori, Dobu-Ita Dori (The Honch), Kurihama, Mikasa Mall/Sho-Ten-Gai, and Wakamatsu Sho-Ten-Gai.

The objective is obviously increase the convenience factor for those visiting the shopping street areas .... using smart phones to learn about stores, restaurants, bars, and sales, etc .... also, helps with navigation, language translation, future use of cashless payment systems, communicating during natural disaster situations, etc.

NTT has been busily setting-up WIFI all over Japan .... And Yokosuka is one of the latest additions

http://www.ntt-bp.net/jcfw/en.html