Tips: Japanese Currency

Assalamualaikum, Konnichiwa and Hi!

Let's rest a little from the trip entries. This entry is like an intermission in a 3-hour-duration Bollywood movie (If you have seen one in any movie hehe)

This is actually something I want to share because one of the things that I forgot to read much before I went there is the Japanese currency. Not about the Yen value in term of currency conversion, but the usage of the bank notes and coins.

Mostly, if we convert our own money (Ringgit Malaysia in my case), we will only get the bank notes, and of course it will be in 10000yen or 5000 yen or at least the 1000 yen, with no coin, right?

And when you are already in Japan and start to use those bank notes, you will start to get the change in coins. And, to tell you this, one of the Japanese coin brought a mystery to us hahahahha....

So, let me introduce you, the Japanese currency (image I took from Google Image, if the real owner sees this, you may claim your credits ^_^ )

yeah, and the one that was so mystery to us, of course the 5 yen because there's no value stated on the coin. We took almost 3 days until one of us decided to ask a convenient store staff what was the actual value of the coin. So I hope, with this, there will be no mystery in your trip hahhaa (Jangan biarkan hidup anda diselubungi misteriiiiiii).

Oh, one thing I learned there. They used so many coins. We at 1st were a little afraid to use the coin, in reason that we may slow down the staff, waiting for us to calculate and search for coins (as we did not really recognize the coins by heart like RM coins), but I think, the best is, just take your time, slowly, to count and give your coins accordingly, than keep paying with bank notes and having sooooooooooooooooooooooooo many coins in your wallet haha. So, use it wisely, as some say, get rid of 1 yen as soon as possible. That means, whenever you need to pay 243yen or 33 yen or 781 yen, use that 1 yen coins before you get another dozens of 1 yen coins hehe.

Another thing that unfamiliar with us in Malaysia but widely practiced in Japan is the usage of cash tray. Whenever you go to the counter and see a cash tray, count your money and put in the tray. That will be good enough if you don't really know about Japanese etiquette (pay with both hands if you want to give the money on hands, etc).

(source: google, if the owner sees this, tell me and I'll credit you)

So that's all for today. See you in Part 4!! xoxo

Salam Ramadhan to all my muslim readers. May this year of Ramadhan will be better than the previous ones. May it brings more blessings, improve our Imaan, and help us to be a better Muslim, a better person, insyaAllah..