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rtpg on Dec 5, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Recommendations for Japan Travel

This has changed immensely in the past 4 years. Night and day. I would not recommend going card only (and lots of restaurants will be cash only for lunch) but honestly at this point my cash spending in face to face transactions has plummeted immensely.

Though for countryside stuff… I feel like PayPay has a lot more success than cards

jesterson on Dec 6, 2022 [–]

Perhaps we have different patterns of spending, but I have not noticed it at all. PayPay seems to be quite ubiquitous tho.

Going card only would not get you anywhere. Suica/Pasmo is more accepted than visa/mc/jcb.

60% of my transactions by volume is genkin, 20% pasmo, 20% visa/mc.

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