Japanese Phone Straps

must be hard to talk on the phone with that!

O_o Those things take up more space then the phone itself!

日本にはこういった過剰ストラップの方が結構都心部に多いですｗｗ

特に女性に多いｗｗｗ

電話かけにくくないのかな？と思うｗｗｗ

So, um.. where's the phone?

You know, I think it needs more straps. But honestly, it's just one of those little things, you think oh that's cute i'll buy one and put it on my phone. Soon after, it amounts to alot such as on Asanon's phone.
Such a hassle to carry around in my opinion, would never fit in my pocket if it were like that.

ah so now I get what Kagamin meant by 800g strap ^w^

the straps are heavier than the phone itself ^^;

i hv a female fren with a phone like tat.. XD

Hmm, sometimes people have some sort of strap on their phone, but for the most part I would say no.

I was so terribly heartbroken when I learnt my current phone wasn't able to have straps attached to it easily. And although I only usually kept one or two straps on it, they're so useful! It's kind of like an extra keyring and can add extra cute without having to glue things onto the phone itself.
I have seen phones with more straps attached however. Where there are enough that the phone and the straps can only just fit into a small-ish handbag.
Those are kind of scary. I was always too afraid to have that much stuff dangling off my phone though. Mostly because I wouldn't want to damage any of the charms or straps. They're too cute to be thrown around with twelve others.

The straps are not attached to the phone, the phone is an attachment for the straps!

I have:
*Stitch - Picked up from Tokyo Disneyland (Like half the size of my phone ^^;)
*Domo-kun + Fujiyama - Bought from random souvenier shop somewhere at base of Mt Fuji
*8GB USB stick
*Sendo Erika keitai screen cleaner - From an edition of Dengeki G's Festival

I also used to have those mini LED torches and a UV torch attached but soon ran out of batteries - Those were pretty heavy

Yeah, nearing the 1:1 weight ratio but completely passed the 'awkward pocket bulge'

shame the iphone doesnt have a hole for straps, or else mine would be covered xD

I saw some with the weight of a weighting bell!

Impressive O_O

My girlfriend has tons on her keys, sooo many... I don't know how she carries them around everywhere @_@ (Although I do have a habit of playing with them XD Especially this little gel and glitter-filled squishy star thing...)

If my phone is full of straps, it would be too heavy to be carried around and it is really weird if one walk with one side of the pants swinging back and forth due to the phone lol

More and more phones are coming with the holes in them for straps... Now, in the past year I've seen a few cell phone "charms" at Target. I don't see many people, other than a few Asian kids at school with cellphone straps. I have a pen and Spirted Away straps on my phone which I got when I went to Japan.

My phone in the UK had a hole that allowed me to attach straps, and I did have a couple attached but not nearly as many as I've seen on people's phones in Japan.

my phone get that hole too but I figure having those thing hanging on my phone will just be a nuisance hence I left my hole alone XD

Phones here have the ability to have straps, but I have yet to see a person with one. =/

My friend back in hight school does the same not with her cellphone though but more of a keychain.

Phones here have the holes in them, well most do but you don't see a lot of phone straps.

I used to have it on my phone but now I don't ^^;

woah!!!
phone straps galore~

definately have a similar sized wad of phone straps and wrist straps on my DSi. since i can't actually put any on my phone.

I have an older phone that doesn't even have a camera much less a place for straps. XD

i dub it the swiss army phone ^^

Bet that takes up most of space in her purse

Thats a load of strapS.

We're OBSESSED with our keitaidenwa here in the Philippines: everywhere there are stalls selling decorative phone straps, charms, and lanyards. Other accessories include protective sleeves and skins and a ridiculous array of carrying pouches.

Even guys decorate their phones with a good lanyard or wrist strap and then pop on a charm or two from friends or significant others.

Whoa! That's a ton of straps. My phone has a little hole that allows straps to be put on, but I haven't put any on (yet). Otherwise the phone wouldn't be able to fit into my pocket ^^; Most people my age I know don't put straps on their phone. Maybe because it's easier to hide their phones in their pockets at school.

love the straps. most missed function on my phone when i switched from docomo Panasonic phone to iphone. I had to buy a plastic case to put my iphone in just to get the strap feature.

Overkill!! but Kawaii!

recently i using only two straps on my phone but in the past i have one very similar to this one.

Wow how does Asanon talk on the phone with all those straps?

yes i use a phone strap myself as well. my phone is so slim, without a strap i definitely won't be able to pull it out from my pants pocket.

will be changing the current worn out one to an anime one soon.

The iPhone just fails on that part i guess... ^^;
Though, that doesn't stop me from puting the straps i got on keychains and my bags and backpacks and so on. ^^;;;;

putting it into the pocket will sure be a problem

Don't put straps on my phone because well I just don't like it .

Thats a lot of straps that would be a big problem for some space in her Handbag .

This is one of your best shots. The light, the perfect focus on your hand while the background looks in motion, the red diagonal between the seat, the phone, and the shoes... it's frikin' awesome.

Good job!

it'd be heavy >_>

but still looks unique haha

That would not fit in any of my pockets lol. I only have 2 little busters strap on my phone.

No straps for me coz don want to ascratch my phone ^^;

better so than she needs for one strap a dozen mobiles !?

i'm scared to put those straps on my phone cuz it might scratch it. but then again, i never really take good care of the phones that i have been through, they'd always end up scratched and paint wearing off.

hmmm. from the pic the phone is a Sony Ericsson, but none of the SE phones that i know of. i guess SE phones are different than the ones released here.

i dont dare to hang so many....i've tried hanging 3 pcs max and it always ended up either missing or broken =S

I don't have any phone straps for a similar reason as berNERD, afraid it might scratch my phone. Though my current Nokia while working great is a real scratch magnet, just looking at it will even scratch it! (Disappointed in Nokia screen quality.)

Do have a Haruhi phone straps that I use as keychain hanger. ^^

Maybe Asanon really wanted to be in Guinness Book of World Records?

Yeah I have straps on my mp3 player... but my phone doesn't have a strap hole... (samsung D900) :/

>.. Do folks in your neck of the woods do the same?
There is a place for that, but very few use it.

i love straps~! i also buy straps for other people so now all of my friends have something on their phone b/c of me.

Don't use them, mainly because I carry arround the cell within my pocket so there's not really any space left for straps, even though I've been wanting to buy a konata/kagami one XD

I got Miyuki Takara and Kagami Hiiragi strap.

I bet she has some muscles in her right arm. Not only from the trinkets though. ;)

Not here in Holland, no straps at all, we prefer our phones small and tiny (was shocked to see how huge the phones on display in stores were in Japan ^_^;;; )

I never use phone straps, it will break very soon coz I carry my phone inside my trouser's pocket.

I don't carry a phone around or have an active sim, but the mobile phone I do own has a strap hole (Sony Ericsson Z1010) and I have a fairly plain strap in it, well the one it came with actually. I'm sure if I could be bothered to get a new sim card for it and found a nice strap, I would be all over them! I love playing with little things like that.

That wouldn't work for me cuz I won't be able to fit that in my pocket. Some of the phone straps with unusual shapes might poke around and cause discomfort if you stuff them in the pocket ^^;

wow that's a lot of strap hope that the phone not broken anyway !

In italy there are lot of mobile phone with an hole for the straps, but only few people have straps on it........of course on my mobile phones (7 models) i have a lot of them.The only problem is with my new Iphone, it is a very good phones but....it hasn't the hole for straps.I watch that sell an item to attach them on the Iphone but i don't love it.....

that will give me a suspicious bulge in my pants, i mean the phone and straps... anyway zilch holes on the jesus phone so can't help too ^^

And I thought I had too much stuff on my keys. That's just insane! I hope they all do something cool like a clockwork toy, or transform in to pens or torches or, oh wait, the Japanese have already built that stuff in to those brick like phones...

It would be good for self defense : \

Damn! that thing looks like it ways half a ton.

Same for our phones, though my very first phone didnt.... I have a big collection of straps though, not sure I could beat that though... I may well try though... hehehehe

Looks like I have misunderstood something. I thought mobile phones were supposed to be small and light.

Here some people attach stuff to their phones. It's mainly young girls (age say 8-15) who does that and it would be a bad sign if people older than that use such stuff.

the coolest one is that one with the shape of a mobile phone... oh wait, that IS the mobile phone! XD

wow that is quite a lot of them. Here in my neck of woods there isn't straps to put on a cellphone XD

Young folks here do it, I wish I could do it but I have an iPhone :(

No one uses straps around here. As a result they are hard to find. ):

My friend has something like that, the cluster of thing weighs more than her phone

That's epic! My HTC Hero doesn't really have anywhere to attach bits to :( I used to with my Nokias though

Yup I've seen plenty of people with phones like that in Canada. Not a very common thing, but sometimes people do have phones that hang about five hundred different straps. And yes, they do outweigh the phone.

I used to have so many attached to my phone, that you couldn't even find the phone. Hahaha! But now I only have 4 things attached to it.

Danny should get a Mirai strap for his phone. Hehe!

Asanon must be one of those girls that lug around a huge purse that carries everything...

Haha, i think i have almost the same amount?XD but it IS uncomfortable when writing a message or talking on the phone...

Isn't too much accesories?

Phone straps in japan...are definitely the biggest i have seen...compared to those around here...

Where is the phone, among so many straps:)

i've got a buncha gsc stuff attached to my phone... which is probably not usual for the average blackberry user here in california ^^;;

would love to actually attach bardiche/laevantein/excalibur to my phone but i have a feeling that i'd end up slicing my leg up ^^; as a consolation i just use the magic circles that were also included

I don't need straps for my phone. I like my phone a little large - because of the fat stumps I call my fingers :P

I had an old Nokia that had a lighted multicolor blinking antenna on it but other then that I am a mimimalist.
An acquaintance had a key chain like that. It had lots of charms and nick knacks. I had a nickname for it but I wont hint at what it was. She thought it was funny though.

Nope, havent seen it over here.

+ Wouldn't work on my iPhone anyway and I like my devices neat and awesome xD

not really... I actually hate my Samsung b/c it doesn't have a place to put my phone strap. That's how Japanese I am

I have a hole on my pencil for those things. Keys and accessories!

my boyfriend recently put a nekokoneko on his cell phone heheh so cute.

Wish my phone had a hole for straps, I have the straps but no hole!

LAWL! How does she even hold it to speak?, My phone has a hole too but here you don't get straps as cool as the ones you get in Japan D: I have never seen one that i like here... ToT but i've seen many cool ones sold there :D.

How can you fit that in you pocket. XD Not to many people in Cali put straps on their phones, but it is a nice little decoration.

No-one does it in the UK.

I used to have a bunch on my phone but then school startd so I put them on my back pack and mp3(Its has a cellphone charm hole)

It's rather uncommon to see cellphone straps here in Canada, it's not that popular over here.

I only have two small straps on my phone: Chiaki (from Nodame Cantabile) and Cloud (the Kingdom Hearts Mobile version). I also attach straps and other chains to my DS and my house/car keys since it would be impossible to handle my phone if I attached EVERYTHING on it.. ^__^;;.

I think this is something girls tend to do more than guys (well, at least here in California). Have yet to see a guy with a phone strap around here...

where's the phone? xD

That's a lot of straps.... I have one on my phone, though most of my coworkers look at me funny. I've been meaning to get a new one, since part of mine got a bit destroyed. >.<

All that's missing is another phone to be strapped as a phone strap.

Yep my phone has a little 'grey bear' character on it, it is standing and hugging a little rabbit! so cute. I own a lot of phone straps though, but the connectors kept breaking, when my phone gets dropped, so I buy a new one, and keep the old ones in a little memory box :D

統一感がないｗｗｗ

Care for some phone with your straps? Looks like you could work out with it or something.

Almost all asians have phonestraps it seems, especially girls (and some guys too...)
Personally I find them annoying, and it tends to scratch the lcd too. That's what you don't want if you don't have a flipphone or smartphone.

Looks like you would need a separate bag just for the phone straps, since the I doubt it would fit in anyone's pocket.

I had one but it didn't last that long.

Wow... Like some people already said, the phone's the accessory not the straps ^^;

Thank god you can't put something like these on the iPhone xD

I used to have about 16 on my old phone, but I own more than that. Since sometimes, the holder wears out, and you have to either take it out or replace it or else, it'll fall out and you'll be sad that all your precious phone charms are gone.

Now, I only have three, and they're all Tsukasa Hiiragi. <33 I still love phone charms though.

We don't typically do it around here, thats what keychains are for XD

japan keychain is very cute!!!

she can probably use it as a lethal weapon...

i'd like to see someone fit that in their pocket

When all the cellphone straps is bigger than the phone, you know its wrong. I haven't seen anyone beat that in terms of cellphone straps but I have a friend who has an impressive keychain collection. She has many key and cellphone accessories in that keyring all for ONE key... I never noticed it was only one key until someone pointed it out ><

Good God, that phone must be heavy lol. But yes, here in Toronto, we have our fair share of cellphone charms.

Wow, those are a lot of straps! O:

"All Japanese mobiles have a hole which enables a strap to be attached and many folks over here hang character goods from their device."

So *that's* why the iPhone never caught on in a big way in Japan. xP

I used to have a gashapon hanging from my phone, but once he got lost (poor Yondaime lost his finger, hand, and hair before that) I just stuck to leather, professional looking ones. With my recent cellphone switch to a Blackberry, I've ditched straps altogether - gets in the way of typing because of where the hole is positioned.

Wow, that's really a lot of phone straps, maybe is for the purpose of easier to dig in out from the handbag.

That's not too bad, I've seen worse. >>;

I'm so addicted to phone straps, if I see a cute one I have to resist buying it as much as possible. I don't have much room on my phone, so I have to hang them on my wall instead.

It's especially common for students here to do that. Though it's usually like a long chain instead of a bundle.

I tend to see asians with the phone straps on their phones.

I found Japan to be overwhelmingly stocked with accessories and knickknacks when I visited, which turned me into something similar to a crazed child in a toy store. I can understand the urge to collecting all those cute dangly things though I usually hoard and only use one for a phone or purse.

No straps for me. I see some people here that use them, but only usually one strap per phone.

I have Puchi-Eva's Minato strap attached to my Nokia 6230i. I plan to attach more but the hole for strap is very small.

That's a little ridiculous. I think the strap lose purpose if you can't distinguish it among the billion other stuff.

You do occasionally see cell phone straps around here, though not often. However, quite a few phones can accommodate them, which is an absolute blessing if you and a family member have the same model of phone. I speak from experience, as my mom and I have the exact same model, in the exact same color. I have a strap with a little handmade bead bunny, a gift from my former roommate, and my mom has Calcifer from Howl's Moving Castle, which I bought for her at AX last year. It's a huge help in telling whose phone is whose!

I would never, ever have more than one strap though. It offends my designerly sensibilities, and would increase potential damage to the strap slot too, I would think.

Rarely you see people with phone straps here, dang that must be a hassle to put in your pocket, if it can even fit. That phones strap hole thingy must be packed to the max.

I only have one and it's a sword. On seeing it, a lot of people ask if I can unsheathe it.

I'm impressed she can use the phone with all those straps! Me, I'd just drop it constantly, haha.

I've liked the idea of a single character phone strap or something like that, but problem is that I almost never use my phone, so I never saw the point. Most of the time I neglect to even bring it with me in the first place, oops.

Mine has a hole for straps but I have no interest in using it. How would I even carry it around? I don't like it being in my pocket as it is.

Does she have neck problems when she uses the phone? ^^; One of my friends have a lot like this too... I'd worry about the straps falling out when I pull it out. Right now I don't even have a hole for a strap on my new phone >_<

You see it around here every-so-often. I don't personally though, partly 'cause my phone doesn't have a hole for straps and partly 'cause it'snot really my style =P

yeah we got them here i vancouver, we have those capsule machines that dispense the straps. most teens here have them.

So far, I've managed to keep from becoming a cell phone slave, but if I ever got one, I'd definitely dangle a gazillion cell phone charms from it (to the point of ridiculousness). =^_^=

I always put my phone inside my pants pocket but with that amount of straps, that would be impossible @_@ I don't have a single phone strap, maybe I should start to get one ^^;

there aren't that many phones in the us that have holes for that, but i was so happy when i got my lg chocolate and i put a hello kitty charm on it ^^; it had a bell on it so you'd always hear it jingle it got embarrassing so i took it off

crazy!!!

how does she get all of those on since it looks like they are devouring her phone. i can only fit one on my phone which is kakashi, even though i have like ten of them just not attach

Reminds me a character played by Ryoko Hirosue in "Wasabi" in pair with Jean Reno, she had that characteristic purple feather as a phone strap if I remember well.

hmmm....i got a whole lot of them, but there for my collection and are not in use..hheheheheheh....:P

i usually throw my phone in my bag, so i wouldn't want to damage my hangables.

I saw one that's off from the ground only by a few cm from the pocket somewhere. Love your articles Danny, but would even love to see more from "A day in Tokyo" and "A week in Tokyo" series ^^

it's not really popular in Canada, I got looked at strangely when I came home from Japan with a giant Cheshire cat tail on my phone. Also I bought a bunch for friends/family and about 80% thought they were weird key chains, not something youd put on a phone...

Americans aren't that corny.
But if you visit the Asian communities in L.A. you'll
see people with this habit of attaching too many phone
straps to their phones.

I used to have a strap on mine, but then it fell off. I also tended to get some strange looks about that, I haven't seen...anybody...(As far as I know) with a phone strap....

I don't have any straps hanging off my cellphone because my cellphone is an iPhone 3G.

Although I would like to get a cellphone strap, I'm still looking around for a good one and I highly doubt I'll put that many on it. How hard is it to talk on the thing?

Haha :D My friends have the same habit of collecting phone straps. It's fun to look at them but yeah :D It looks funny when they are talking on the phone :P And yup they look pretty much the same as the one on the pic. They don't have that BIG straps but they have MANY small ones :P
Once I thought putting a strap on my phone but ended up without it when I started thinking how bothersome it would be if the strap would get stuck on something.. keke

Now that I think of it.. It's not that common here in Finland :P I've always thought of it as something normal cause my friends had them >_<

Wow they're kinda big xD

how many phone straps are attached to the phone??

She is a fan indeed. My cellphone is too small to put a strap on, it looks like a startrek communicator. I could use them on my two video cameras however. Last I tried to get was some Chobits ones, but they ran out of stock.