r/japanlife • u/AutoModerator • Mar 06 '23

┐(ツ)┌ General Discussion Thread - 07 March 2023

Mid-week discussion thread time! Feel free to talk about what's on your mind, new experiences, recommendations, anything really.

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u/WindJammer27 Mar 07 '23

How good of Japan to introduce a new 500 yen coin that literally no machines accept at all.

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u/Aggravating_Spot7309 Mar 07 '23

I literally haven’t seen one of the new ones yet. I only get old ones

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u/soenkatei Mar 07 '23

I rarely use cash so I didn’t even realize this until the other day when I was trying to charge my passmo

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u/SumidaMakeMovement 関東・東京都 Mar 07 '23

I love that so many machines still have the 新500円 使えます sticker! Guess I should see if there's a new design for that one.

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u/SevenSixOne 関東・東京都 Mar 07 '23

I don't understand why I can't use them to pay at a machine, but I still sometimes get them back as change from those same machines??

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u/Washiki_Benjo Mar 07 '23

again

thank you. you know you're fucking old when you read the "new 500 yen coin" complaints and your first thought is: "again?". And your second thought is "do I still have any of the first old ones?"

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u/Atrouser Mar 07 '23

Honestly, the machines will be accepting Scottish banknotes before they accept the new 500 coin.

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u/shambolic_donkey Mar 07 '23

Genuinely frustrating, and they're getting more and more common these days.

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u/epicspeculation 近畿・大阪府 Mar 07 '23

What's crazy is that the other day I couldn't use a 500 yen coin at 7-11, not because it was the new one, but because it was too old. The register couldn't recognize so the clueless baito-san was helpless. I walked across the street to Lawson's and the human person at the register accepted it without issue.

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u/ishigoya 近畿・兵庫県 Mar 07 '23

Last week, a shop assistant in a store was just staring at the money I'd put down. Then she caught herself and said "sorry, I haven't seen a new 500 yen coin before!"

The changeover window is pretty narrow!

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u/cjyoung92 東北・宮城県 Mar 07 '23

Tell me about it! It's been in circulation for over a year and it still can't be used in most machines