Money for Japan

WaxiesDargle

Could someone please tell me the best way to take money to Japan? ie is there a pre-loaded card similar to FairFX

Thanks

NiftyDigits

If you want to use a Prepaid card, consider Kalixa Pay obtained via MoneySupermarket. Can't be beaten for purchases. Has a flat rate for cash withdrawals, so take out reasonably large chunks.

ATMs in Japan operated by Japan Post Bank, Seven Bank and Citibank Japan allow you to withdraw cash with MasterCard-, Maestro- or Cirrus-branded cards. Please refer to an ATM locator tool or bank branch information at their websites: Citibank: ✶https://www.citibank.co.jp/en/banking/branch_atm/pdf/atm.pdf

Japan Post Bank: ⤢https://www.jp-bank.japanpost.jp/en/ias/en_ias_index.html

Seven Bank(outside 7-Eleven®) : http://www.sevenbank.co.jp/english/

heatherw_01

I went to Tokyo and cards were not widely accepted and there are not many ATM's. I took cash and a card as backup

WaxiesDargle

Thank you for your replies

NiftyDigits

heatherw_01 wrote: »

I went to Tokyo and cards were not widely accepted and there are not many ATM's. I took cash and a card as backup

I would estimate there are more than 43,000 ATMs that allow you to use a foreign card.

24000 between Post Bank and CitiBank and 19,000 from Seven Bank.