I already made a similar post on r/JapanFinance but haven’t seen any responses so I figured I cast a wider net and ask in here as well. Arrived to Japan around a month and a half ago on a 2 year student visa, got myself a yuucho account because from what I read it’s the only one I could get for the first 6 months if I have no job, which I don’t.
The people on the real state agency I used told me that the rent payment was going to be automatically deducted from my yuucho account so I deposited money before Golden Week and didn’t check if it was deducted or not. Yesterday I got a message on my cellphone asking me to please pay this month’s rent, I asked the real state agency and they didn’t respond until later that day when I told them I’ve gotten a letter telling me the same thing, on the letter there was a bank account for me to make a transfer, so I went earlier today to make the transfer, and then the cashier was like, “you are classified as a non-resident so if you want to make the transfer is going to be a 7000 yen fee and it’ll take a few days”, the letter ask me to pay by tomorrow so a couple of days would be a little late for that, also I prefer to avoid paying such a fee. I told this to the agency and they told me that I could go and make a transfer using an ATM, so after class I went to the bank again and tried to do a transfer using the ATM and was denied since it asked me for my cash card and I’m guessing it was the same issue I had earlier with the cashier. So atm I have the rent in cash ready to pay, but how do I pay it? (A little note, my rent is over 10万 that I read on other threads that’s the maximum transfer some banks allow, but again in the ATM I went it didn’t even let me do anything, not even input the recipient’s info)l.
TL:DR How can I pay rent/do a transfer if I’m considered a non-resident for the bank?
Edit: Went to the recipient’s bank and asked to do a transfer they just asked my for my residence card and charged me a 550 yen fee. Thanks a lot for everyone’s help
by FastIce8391