Calling the dead from a phone booth in Japan
Posted by staff / January 26, 2017
What we wouldn’t give for one last conversation…
That was the thought of Itaru Sasaki when he erected the white phone booth with a rotary phone in his garden, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. He wanted to speak to his cousin, yet a year later, he opened it to the many mourning when tragedy struck close to home. The town of Otsuchi, where it sits, lost ten percent of its population in 2011 when an earthquake and tsunami caused the town to cave in.
10,000 people have so far visited the humble booth to use the “phone of the wind.”
Full story at Travel + Leisure.
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