Bank Note
I went to the bank today to transfer some money and to get traveler’s checks. I wanted to transfer 2 million yen from my account at a Japanese bank to my account at an American bank here in Tokyo. When I asked for the cash at the first bank, they caught me off guard–I’ve never been handed wrapped stacks of bank notes before.
Pictured is what they gave me, two stacks of one hundred 10,000 yen notes (each one being worth roughly $91 by today’s rates), quite a hefty amount–about $18,000 in all. A little nerve-wracking to carry around town, though in Tokyo there’s really very little worry. It was just fun to get stacks like that, frankly.
The traveler’s checks, by the way, are for my trip home in a month. Took the opportunity to pay off the remainder of my airplane ticket. I get almost a whole month off at the end of the year, this time from December 8th to the first Monday in January (the 5th, I believe). I will try to keep mobile with the blog.
Need to start using Paypal my friend.