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• 倍金萬
• 2018/03/18 (Sun) 11:25
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#154 Watermelon,

＞ I don't like carrying around cash

Yes, I am the same way. When I am traveling in Japan, I have to carry 5 or 10 10,000 yen bills to be worried about something, but when I live here for a long time, I don't carry even one 100 dollar bill, and there are few stores that take 100 dollar bills, and recently I pay with a card even to buy one beef bowl at Yoshino-Ya.

E-money （ IC cards ） As for IC cards , FA has answered the question. Basically, JR IC cards can be used at any JR facilities. In large cities, they can be used outside of the facilities.

I don't know about Hokkaido, but in JR Shikoku, there is no automatic ticket gate that accepts IC cards in the whole island, and in JR line, Tokushima and Kochi prefectures are still not electrified and diesel trains are still running, making noise in the mountains. So keep your Suica cards and the like in the back of your travel bag.

• 倍金萬
• 2018/03/19 (Mon) 09:59
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Continuing with #158, I pay by credit card for most of my shopping in our area these days.
I only pay cash at one ramen shop that only takes cash and a yoga class at a senior center
.

I guess it is safer to use a card, though the store will charge a fee.
If you handle cash, employees will skim it, if they take sales to the bank
they are easy targets, and if you hire a cash collection agency, it will cost you money. Well, when you get that big, Walmart,
Ralphs, etc., you've probably figured out all the costs.

It's been more than 10 years since the Flyaway Shuttle Bus terminal, which goes directly to LAX,
sold tickets from a card-only vending machine.
Before that, there used to be two employees at the ticket box, but the wages
they had to pay must have been ridiculous, so they went completely unmanned.
I would guess that the city employees were skimming a lot of cash as well.

• ポイント貯めてる
• 2018/03/19 (Mon) 13:13
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I pay with my Costco credit card for cash back. I was surprised that my cash back was ＄ 600 even in a year when I didn't spend much.
I guess the 4% gasoline discount is a big deal.
I use my card in Japan, but it is even better if I don't have to pay a fee anymore.

• 新世界
• 2018/03/20 (Tue) 01:52
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I was amazed at the disciplined Japanese homeless.
Last time I stayed at a hotel in Shinsekai and had a lot of food and drink in the neighborhood.
The night of the station, there were many tents of homeless people, but they were cleaned up the next morning.
The commuters didn't know what was going on, but they opened the station to all functions.

Japanese people live with dignity even when they are homeless.
I sincerely hope they will grasp a hopeful future.

• フェイスブック
• 2018/03/20 (Tue) 10:09
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People like Zuckerberg are earning
billions using users' data.

As long as there are people like this who prey on the common people,
the gap is going to widen even further in the future.