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MONEY IN JAPAN: Credit Cards, Exchanging Cash & ATMs - YouTube
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hi everyone and welcome back to my
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planning series of tips and advice to
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help you plan your trip to Japan and
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today we're talking about money now this
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is something I've already covered a bit
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in my trip planning checklist video you
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can find that one on my channel and
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that's got all the little things you
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need to sort out to plan your trip but
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money is something that people still ask
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me about from time to time so this is
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going to go into a bit more detail and
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if you want to see more Jeep laning
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videos like this one subscribe to my
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channel and click the notification now
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the first thing is should I take cash or
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credit cards and the answer is both
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now our credit cards aren't as
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widespread in Japan as they are in other
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countries from what I'd read it sounds
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like they don't take them in many places
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at all so I was actually quite surprised
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that lots of shops do take them but
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you're still going to need cash for
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smaller shops and restaurants kiosks
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places where you get snacks on the
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street you're going to need cash for
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buying your train tickets usually the
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machines at stations don't take cards
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and you'll also need cash for vending
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machines and arcades and buying lots of
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GATS fun so as a general rule I do
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always take my credit card as a backup
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but take more cash with you than you
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usually would going on a trip credit
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cards you can use a card just like you
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normally would to buy things in shops
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and restaurants the important thing to
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check is that your card is
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commission-free
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abroad just to make sure your bank isn't
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going to charge you for foreign currency
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transactions and you can do that by
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going on your bank's website looking at
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the card you've got and it should tell
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you what charges there are it's also
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important to tell your bank that you'll
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be traveling abroad just in case when
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they see all these transactions in Japan
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it might automatically trigger their
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fraud control and they might cancel your
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card and that's the last thing you want
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usually you can do if you log into your
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internet banking and you can tell them
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what dates you'll be away for I've never
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had any problems I just use my card as
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normal and it's always been fine you
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actually get the best exchange rate when
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you're using your card because you get a
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rate that's a lot closer to the actual
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rate rather than when you buy currency
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you get a lower rate because the company
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you buy from takes a cut so it's
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actually pretty good to use your credit
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card another thing that seems a bit
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strange at first
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in the UK we have chip-and-pin for card
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security and that doesn't seem to be as
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common in Japan I've seen it a couple of
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times but for smaller transactions often
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you don't even need to sign for it they
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just swipe your card and you're done
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which does seem a bit strange at first
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where to get your yen so you will
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definitely need cash and there's lots of
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different places you can get it often
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big shops have a bureau DeShawn's
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Bureau to change you can get it from
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supermarkets banks and there's places
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that do just travel currency and nothing
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else
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and the rates do vary quite a bit
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there's a calculator on Martin's
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money-saving tips where you can put in
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how much you want to buy and how soon
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you're gonna need it and it shows you
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which places have the best rates it
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tells you whether they're FCA certified
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so you know which ones are going to be a
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bit safer and more reliable to use some
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of them deliver it to your house and
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some of them you have to go to the shop
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to pick it up someone asked me how to
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make sure you're getting genuine cash
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and not fakes and I tend to pick
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somewhere that sounds reliable like a
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chain that I've heard of or a bank that
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you know is going to be reputable and
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not some random website you've never
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heard of before XE comm is a really good
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website for looking at the exchange rate
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now the rate you get from the bureau
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DeShawn's is going to be a little bit
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lower than the rate on it XE comm that's
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because the company you get the money
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from takes a cut of it and that's how
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they make their living
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but XE dot-com is really useful to see
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how the rate has changed over time so
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you can see if it's a good time to buy
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your money or not now I don't know
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anything about global economics but you
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can see how it's going and try and
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decide whether it's going to go up or
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down like at the moment that pouncer yen
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rate is one point four seven which is
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not bad that's about average and you can
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see it looks like it might go up or is
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it gonna go down who knows XE comm is
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also really useful when you're planning
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your trip if you want to see how much
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something is you can just type in the
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amount of yen and it converts it to your
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currency really easily
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now it's unavoidable you will end up
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with hundreds of 1 yen coins
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they're so tiny and light they almost
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feel like they're made of nothing and
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you get so many of them so try and spend
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them
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you can I don't really have any good
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tips for how to get rid of them last
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time I was in a shop and there was a
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really helpful assistant in the till and
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I did that foreigner thing where you
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hold out all your change in your hands
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and she went through and picked out as
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many coins as possible she was really
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good and the 1000 yen notes have Mount
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Fuji on them which is pretty cool and
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there's also a couple of coins with
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holes in which is kind of exciting the
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smaller kind of gold colored one doesn't
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have English numbers on all the other
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coins do is just that one that's got a
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kanji instead and that one's a five
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young coin if you like my t-shirt Kiet
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this is my new design my kawaii Ouija
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board possessed by cuteness this one was
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really popular at comic-con and you can
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get it online on cakes of faces co uk or
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deliver to any country in the world
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how much cash should i take how much to
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take is up to you you might be on a
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budget trip where you're trying to save
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money or you might want to splash out on
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all the things you've been thinking
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about getting from Japan but if you want
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to have an idea about how much things
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cost have a look at my how expensive is
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Tokyo video it's on my channel and I
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recorded everything I spent for three
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days including train tickets food and
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all the other little bits and pieces and
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actually give you an idea of how much
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you might need cash machines foreign
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cards work in cash machines in 7-eleven
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the convenience store which is
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everywhere it's not hard to find one
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they also work in cash machines in the
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post office and press yet which is a
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bank that used to be called citi bank
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you can find them on Google Maps just
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type in the name and it will show you
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your closest one again make sure your
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bank isn't going to charge you for a
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draw in cash abroad now the cards you
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can use in the shops aren't necessarily
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free and cash machines I've got one
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credit card for buying things and a
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separate debit card in case I need to
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take money out so do check that before
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you go although I think it is easiest to
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get your cash before you go just so you
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don't waste time when you're there
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trying to find a cash machine and just
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in case it doesn't work I think it's
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easiest to get it before you go but
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having a debit card and knowing where
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you can take cash out is a really good
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backup just in case currency conversion
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I think the easiest way to work out how
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much things cost is to find out how much
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a thousand yen is in your currency so
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four pounds in the UK it's usually about
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the seven pound 50 or eight pounds so if
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you know a thousand yen is seven pound
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fifty then you know that two thousand
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yen is going to be fifteen pounds and
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you know that a hundred yen is going to
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be 75 P and you can sort of work things
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out from there if you're converting two
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dollars a lot of people just take a zero
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off and say that a thousand yen is ten
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dollars now that's not quite accurate
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it's actually more like nine dollars so
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it just depends how picky you want to be
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so that's it so take cash with you take
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your card as well take a card you can
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use and cash machines then you've got
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everything covered and you'll definitely
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be able to spend lots of money buying
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lots of amazing things from Japan if you
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want to see more videos like this
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subscribe to my channel for more do
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planning videos and there's also more
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vlogs coming up I'm in Fukuoka at the
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moment in the vlogs I wanted to show you
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more places that aren't in most Japan
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videos you know you see loads of things
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from Tokyo but these are things that are
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a little bit different that you might
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not have seen before and then I'll be on
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to Osaka and Tokyo after that so
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subscribe if you want to catch them and
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I'll see you soon bye bye
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