How do yo guys get rid of coins?

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1. I don’t use cash when possible too (I use credit cards), but I still carry around cash and coin as if I were using them. So I get rid of them as I am required to pay in cash, so at most I am carrying 4 1-yen coins. (I always 3-4 5-yen coins for preying)

2. I use it? The 1 yen are the first to leave

3. I have one of those coin pouches on my wallet that opens up entirely like a box, so it’s really easy to see my change. So then I just use it – I always check my change first and try to use what I can before using bills. As a result I don’t accumulate many 5 or 1 yen coins, or change in general. At most I maybe have 1 five yen and 4 one yens if I didn’t have any and the total was something ending in 1. But then I get rid of them again pretty quickly.

4. Visit a station and top up your passmo card!

5. Kinda just have to commit to coins and playing I give you 20 and get back 2 coin game. Otherwise just dump em in self serve pay machines

6. Deposit them at the ATM in the bank. Admittedly the last time I touched an ATM was over 10 years ago but you could do it then.

7. Most large banks have ATMs that accept coins. If you bank with one of them, you literally just dump your coins into a receptacle that counts it all and deposits it all into your account. All denominations, even 1 yen, are accepted. It’s very easy.

8. Use credit card or even a passmo or suica

9. I always pay with exact change.

10. When you go to a supermarket it convenience store with a self checkout, throw every coin you have into the machine and it will give you back your change using the least amount of coins possible

11. When I go through the self-checkout at grocery stores I just dump all my 10s into the machine. The 10s are the bulkiest so those are the ones I’m always looking to get rid of.

12. Dm me and I’ll give you my mailing address.
    Taking all unwanted coins.

13. I use it at combini.

14. My friend made a Japanese Coin Training Simulator, for free, to help train folks in exactly this kind of senario:

    [https://wendal.itch.io/japanese-money-simulator](https://wendal.itch.io/japanese-money-simulator)

15. You ever been to a store? You can exchange money for goods and services.

16. Fun fact.
    A Japanese co-worker brought this to my attention the other day when I was complaining about an old lady who was holding up the line because she was paying all in coins. I had no idea but it seems to check out.

    ‘The number of coins that can be used at one time is limited to 20 times the face value of the coin. In other words, you can use twenty coins of the same denomination at one time. By law stores have the right to refuse acceptance of 21 or more coins of the same denomination.’

    Source
    https://livejapan.com/en/in-tokyo/in-pref-tokyo/in-akihabara/article-a0002421/#:~:text=The%20number%20of%20coins%20that,coins%20of%20the%20same%20denomination.

17. I hoard ¥500 and ¥100 coins to pay for food delivery, vending machines, and late-night snack runs… Everything else I just dump indiscriminately in the self-pay kiosk thing whenever I end up at a store that has one. I don’t even count it, just chuck it all in there and hope it’s enough to pay for my purchase, or at least that I’ll get fewer coins back than I put in.

18. I myself at one point in time got like 7000 yen in pocket change, just try to use jt everytime you buy something, for example if you buy lets say a beer, and it costs 189 yen, try paying it with the coins, like one 100, one 50 two 10 two 5 and 9small ones

19. I use the small coins to get less change back. If the total is 893 yen, put down the 3 if you have it, or 43 if you have it, or 93 if you have it.

    If there’s a line and I think I’ll hold people up, or I don’t have change and don’t want a ton of it, I pay with my Suica.

20. First thing I do is read all of the other r/japanlife threads on this exact topic that already have a bunch of great suggestions.

21. Because of their negative mass, those one yen coins in large enough concentrations, are great for creating wormholes in the space-time continuum.

22. This used to be a major problem for me pre-corona but now that almost every 711 i visit is almost entirely machine pay, I’ve no shame in dumping an entire coin pouch worth of coins into the machine.

    If it’s enough/more, I’ll get a smaller amount of the surplus change back. If it’s not enough ill just throw in a 1000 yen bill and get bigger change denominations back.

    I’d much rather get back in the same amount fewer 100 and 500 yen coins than be stuck with a shit ton one 1, 5 and 10yen coins

    I don’t mind having a surplus 50 yen coins at all tho.

23. You dont: [https://imgur.com/a/PGPLCQG](https://imgur.com/a/PGPLCQG)

24. There’s a donation box at the register of combini’s, I put mine in that

25. Bring a coin holder and try to spend it if you can. (I personally hate all coins).

    When it’s full, bring it home and put it inside a jar. Use it to pay for COD services.

    Alternatively, bring a bag of it to the supermarket (or convenience store) that accepts automatic payments and just drop it in to pay for your groceries.

26. I just dump it into the MUFG ATM machine. Their coin deposits are free (still).

27. Yeah, here’s what I do. Take all your coins to the grocery store. Most of them have auto-checkout and you can deposit all the coins you want. I have seen a store or two recently that limit coins but at Summit in Yokohama it’s all you can deposit.

28. I swear some people must put a real effort into being stupid.