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A struck-through handset beside a seat.
Also known as: Phone off near priority seats
Marks the area near Japanese priority seats where mobile phones are to be switched off entirely.
Asks passengers near priority seats to switch mobile phones off.
Contexts: Public information
Was introduced on the stated ground of interference with cardiac pacemakers, and several operators relaxed it from off to silent after the ministry revised its guidance in 2013 on the evidence that the interference distance was far shorter than assumed. The sign survives in both forms on different networks, which is why a passenger meets contradictory versions of it.
Contexts: Public information
A rectangle carrying a mobile handset in silhouette with a diagonal stroke across it, set beside a bench seat figure.