Bank Notes
While I was in Yanasegawa last year, I came across something interesting in a Familymart. I withdrew 4,000 yen from an ATM and to my surprise the sum was presented to me in.. 2 notes! Until then I thought Japanese bank notes were limited to 1,000 5,000 and 10,000 notes but it turns out 2,000 notes exist as well. I wasn’t too sure at first if it was real money, to be honest, so I spent my first 2,000 note in mentioned konbini straight away to confirm its validity. After successfully buying my drink with it I felt a bit stupid as surely no ATM would happily hand out monopoly money in the first place.
And so, I decided to keep the second note until I leave Japan. This turned out to be a good idea, as Hyun-Hee (sorry if I misspell your name >_>) explained to me, because apparently these notes are rare and are said to bring the owner luck. Yay! A couple of days later I proudly showed Tatsu my note and he said there existed another rare-ish note: 100 yen. Tatsu works part-time at a konbini so he said he’d check the register for me next time he went to work. Sure enough, next time I saw him we traded two 100 coins for two notes!
So here they are, my monetary all star team! (well, duo):
Look at these bad boys
Yen has never been this sexy.
12.01.2010 02:19 
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