I hate banks in Japan
October 17, 2009
I’m going to have to gripe about this. Friday afternoon, a few weeks ago. I finished my recording gig and have several chores to do before an evening lesson. One of these things is exchange some yen for dollars for my upcoming trip to Vancouver.
I go to the Resona in the Yodobashi Camera building. It’s in a huge hub of the city and… nope, they no longer do foreign exchange. OK, I thought, maybe this bank just sucks.
I go do some other chores and on the way home I head to the nearest UFJ near my house. I’ve exchanged currency there many times. Guess what, they no longer do foreign exchange. The woman said that I’d have to go to the Hankyu UFJ branch in Umeda. I just came from that area.
Congratulations, banks in Japan. You’ve become even more useless to me now. And, it’s further proof that Japan is a little less tourist-friendly. It was already low on the scale to begin with.
I’d rather pay a little bit more at the airport than go to a bank now.
