/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

This is a little offbeat but does anyone know what the fuck to do with large amounts of Japanese change? I've got about 4x this in my apartment... Do they have change to cash machines here?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12424724
Why dont you go to a game center?

You can waste a lot of change there. Also try capsule machines, there are so many cool toys you can get in those.

[Anonymous No.]

Buy sweets or sell them to weeaboos for double their price

[Anonymous No.]

>>12424730
Most of the game centres in my city only take 100 and 500 yen coins

[Anonymous No.]

all i see are 1,5,10 yen coins. ain't gonna work in the gachagacha machines. carry a few around with oyu and stop using large denomiation bills to pay for everything.

>change to cash machines here
no. only the bank does that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12424734
rural gamecenters and ma & pa candy stores have machines that take less than 100 yen coins.

[Anonymous No.]

Separate them into smaller bags containing 100 yen each. When you go to the store simply hand the cashier the correct number of 100 yen bags.

[Anonymous No.]

Why didn't you use them? Are you only using bills and/or are you an American and can't count properly?

[Anonymous No.]

Donate to a shrine, and help an improvised miko survive another day!

[Anonymous No.]

>>12424724

Donate it faggot

[Anonymous No.]

>>12424776

This. So much this.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12424747
>used to work fast food
If somebody did this to me, I would leap over the counter and beat them to death with their sacks of change.
Can't you roll coins and then cash them in at a bank? Do Japs not do that?

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

>>12424847

Well that explains why you used to work fast food.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12424877
In high school, asshole.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12424893
Still a looser

[Anonymous No.]

>>12424876

nice Reimu cosplay Tomoko

[Anonymous No.]

in japan here and I have the same problem but only with one yen coins.

convenience store workers are too polite to say no if you pay for something all in 5 yen coins. they even have a plastic thing which you stack them in to count quickly.

I wouldn't dare try it with one yens though. maybe bank would take them and charge you a small fee. I have about 1500 at least.

[Anonymous No.]

better angle. I think even a charity collector or homeless would tell me to fuck off if I tried to give them away.

[Anonymous No.]

I'm pretty sure charity people would accept coins if you can't be bothered sorting them and taking them to a bank.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12425153

This.

If you're that concerned, go throw them all over the streets for homeless people to collect and use them. Hell, I'm not homeless and I'd collect that shit pronto from the streets.

Think of all the joy you'll spread by puncturing a hole in the bag and just walking around a poor area for a little while. Also, since it's Japan, and everyone is a pussy, no one will rob you while you do your santa claus act.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12425166
I'm visiting from /b/ and your post made me glad I did so. Thanks, anon.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12425166

homeless in japan don't beg. they keep away from normal folk due to shame. I am too scared to go to kamagasaki where they all congregate.

never see charity collectors either. maybe I'll dump them somewhere a bum might find them.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12425205
>maybe I'll dump them somewhere a bum might find them.

Maybe a trash can or just leave a handful of coins in random places as a random gift for someone?

Imagine how cool it'd be to go to a store and find like a little pile equaling 10 bucks next to the ramen or alcohol or whatever.

Think of all the joy you can spread with your bag of coins, anon.

[Anonymous No.]

Become Railgun, shoot coins

[Anonymous No.]

put them in a box on the sidewalk and write free money or something on it

[Anonymous No.]

Go on a straw millionaire adventure and come back with fun stories of how well you did

[Anonymous No.]

Why do you ask us gaijins here?
You should ask 2ch or futaba instead.

[Anonymous No.]

Who Japanese change otaku here?

[Anonymous No.]

Get some picrelated and use them. Makes tellers happy because you made the effort to simplify their jobs by counting your own shrapnel. Instantly accepted coin transactions.

Only ever used ￥1 coins for bus fare, make one helluva sound going through the counter.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12425771
I don't think there's any reason Japan wouldn't have change exchanging machines.
At my credit union we just dump wine cases full of pennies into this machine and it counts all of them accurately.

[Anonymous No.]

You can't buy stuff from vending machines with them? That's what I do in Europe and America.

[Anonymous No.]

dont they have this shit in japan?
stuff them yourself and deposit to your bank

[Anonymous No.]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6BGsFdqAco

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o4jCTu-PD8

[Anonymous No.]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV4z8gY5RIQ

[Anonymous No.]

1 yen/10 yen salt water battery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnlr8NVi6Co

[Anonymous No.]

>>12424776
>>12425166
>>12425268
/jp/ - little girls

[Anonymous No.]

>>12424724
Small tip: Don't exchange them, but deposit them at the bank. You can either do this at the counter or via a coin-compatible ATM.
This method apparently doesn't cost you the transaction fee.

This obviously requires you to have an account with them, though.

[Anonymous No.]

駄菓子屋

うまい棒 all day erry day

[Anonymous No.]

>>12425865
I always wondered how a niwaka Hs kid that spams wwwww in nico would look like.
Now I know.

[Sergio !CL0NeFagCE No.]

>>12425360
This is the only viable answer.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12424893
/jp/ is for 20-up, please go back to /a/.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12424724
>This is a little offbeat but does anyone know what the fuck to do with large amounts of Japanese change? I've got about 4x this in my apartment... Do they have change to cash machines here?

Stop using paper money to pay for everything and use coins when you can. On one of my Tokyo trips, I paid with paper money since I was always in a "rush mode" to move on to the next shopping experience. The old lady running the shop stopped me and gave me a somewhat stern lecture that it was better for japan to use the durable coins instead of paper money that wears out.

You'll have to take it to your bank to get rid of large quantities of coins. My usa bank will take customer supplied coin rolls (those paper tubes filled with a set number of coins). They don't count the coins at the teller window but issue a voucher deposit to my account. They will count the coins later and if there is a discrepancy, they will change the credit amount (higher if I gave too many) or lower (plus a penalty fee) if I gave them fewer coins than I claimed. It's actually not a penalty fee but a "cash advance" credit. As you know, those have a substantial minimum charge, so if you are one penny short, that is quite a fee you'll get for that one penny.

To help customers, my usa bank has a coin counting machine in the pre-lobby with the ATMs. It counts coins for free and prints up a voucher ticket that can be brought to the teller window to be deposited to an account or converted into currency. Using that machine is free.

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>>12427879
The fact that he speaks of high school in the past tense implies he is at least 18, and does not put an upper limit on his age.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12425089
Put a handful in with your aluminum can recycling every week.

[Anonymous No.]

every time i scroll past this picture i can only see it as a bowl of cookies or cereal or something

[Anonymous No.]

>>12428097
Can you just put $0 so you don't get any money in your account until after they count it and can't get hit with a fee?

[Anonymous No.]

1 yen coins really ruffle my feathers.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12428139
banks don't let you open empty bank accounts

[Anonymous No.]

I went there like 3 weeks last year and I still have a small bag full of jap change.
Those 1 yen coins really are a bother.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12428150
...this was not about opening an account, it was about declaring the estimated amount of change when depositing rolled change.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12425205
>homeless in japan don't beg
I've had homeless people come up to me and ask for money to buy food.

[Anonymous No.]

In my country they round all prices up to the nearest 5 cents (practically equivalent to 5 yen) so although 1 and 2 cent coins exist they are almost never used.

It does help get rid of the problem of having massive amounts of worthless coins and it doesn't really affect the costs for a single consumer but boy do all the businesses try to abuse the rounding just to maybe get a few extra cents. Something marked 4.98€ will cost 5.00€ and while this isn't much it apparently sells better than just marking it 5.00€ to start with.