Re: [94attendees] Big in Japan: Some Essential Travel Tips

Spencer Dawkins at IETF <spencerdawkins.ietf@gmail.com> Tue, 13 October 2015 14:47 UTC

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Subject: Re: [94attendees] Big in Japan: Some Essential Travel Tips
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Hi, Dirk,

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Gihan Dias <gihan@cse.mrt.ac.lk> wrote:

> On 2015-10-13 ප.ව. 2:33, Dirk Kutscher wrote:
>
> I have collected a few essential Japan travel tips over the past 10 years
> or so. Not intended as a tourist travel guide, but just some things I
> normally do that people might find helpful:
>
> Dirk,
>
> Thanks. It is very helpful.
>

Yes, very.


> A couple more data points from earlier this year:
>  - I was able to use the ATM at 7-Eleven
>

I haven't been in Japan since Hiroshima, but that was the recommendation
for ATMs in Hiroshima, and I used a few of them.


>  - My (chip enabled) Visa card worked at all the stores I used it in.
>

Spencer