Withdrawing Cash from a Japanese ATM with a Foreign Credit Card

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banzaitokyo | 8 years, 1 month ago

Japan is sometimes called the Galapagos Islands of technology—a place where systems evolve in parallel to everywhere else in the world. One area in which this is quite apparent, is bank ATMs. While most ATMs you come across will straight out reject your card, if you know where to look, getting a cash advance or withdrawing with a debit card should not be a challenge.

0 | #12844 by BarbaraEbara | 8 years, 1 month ago

I always thought every where had this issue. Not that I have ever used an ATM outside the country. I am glad to see that Japan is ahead of the game with this and the ways to find working ATM's for foreign cards is super easy!
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0 | #12869 by Yubi | 8 years, 1 month ago

I was never able to use credit card in an ATM that is located oustide the country of issue. I never got to try this in Japan with a card issued outside Japan, but have seen my friends doing it since about 6 years ago. So, apparently this has been there for a while. 15 years ago, Japanese ATMs used to close down for the new year vacation. So, there were some old-fashioned stuff that did disappear.
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0 | #12872 by banzaitokyo | 8 years, 1 month ago

I remember I could withdraw money with my French card just fine in any post office ATMs in Japan. You need to look for one and then it is unusual that they are closed at night and on weekends (including the ATMs!!)
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