| The currency in Japan
is Yen. One hundred yen is equal to about one dollar.
There are no bills in yen until you get to 10000Y which is equal to about
the ten dollar bill. The yen up to 10000Y are coins. It's
fun to walk around with two different types of currency in your wallet.
It's pretty funny when you try to give your American dollar to someone
in Japan. They are too polite to say anything, but just wait for
you to realize your mistake. In Japan, we would wait until the yen
rate was good to purchase yen. That would mean I would get more yen
for my dollar. When I lived in Japan, the yen rate was about 133Y
to one dollar.
On the military base that
I lived on, the stores, took only American dollars, but no pennies.
If your purchase was nearer to the 5 in your amount you paid extra, if
if was closer to the zero, you paid less. I guess they figured
it balanced out. Pennies were to expensive to ship to the United
States. |
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