ocr: Right 222 commentary The telephone weather intormation service began on september 22, 1954. The service began in Tokyo and first used a standard number, 25-6666. The first special numbers to be adopted were 222' in Tokyo, 501'in Nagoya and 288 in Kyoto, before the service changed in March 1966 to one number nationwide, 177.'The telephone time service began on September 15, 1955.