05/21/2026
Whats a Wind Phone? We got one! Retrovilles own 1960s phone booth has been designated a “Wind Phone” in the National Registry of Wind Phones. Now exactly what is a wind phone? The story Of Wind Phones, The Japanese Invention That Lets People Have Final ‘Conversations’ With Lost Loved Ones.
The first wind phone, was installed by a man named Itaru Sasaki, a garden designer who lost his cousin to cancer in 2010. The disconnected phone booth became his personal coping mechanism, as Sasaki felt that by speaking into the wind, his thoughts could reach his departed cousin. But months later, a national tragedy compelled Sasaki to open his “Phone of the Wind” to the public. In the aftermath of the catastrophic 2011 earthquake and tsunami that claimed the lives of more than 19,000 people in the Tōhoku region, Sasaki invited others to use his wind phone to grieve their losses, speak final words to lost loved ones, and find closure. Since then, Sasaki’s wind phone has been visited by more than 30,000 people — and his is no longer the only one. According to a map from My Wind Phone, similar booths have been installed across the world, with 265 in the United States alone and another 111 worldwide. We regularly get folks that come by the park to use and see our WipeOut Wind Phone.
https://www.mywindphone.com/united-states-windphones?pgid=m0x45vtk-551e6d74-a921-4984-a820-13be90e584d4
