How can I get rid of 1000 yen in 1 yen coins ?

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1. Honestly, if it’s only 1000-yen, I’d just slowly use them. Or if you have a bill that you can pay in cash, maybe you can try paying 1000-yen worth with coins? That’s if the business will accept it. I dunno if going to the bank will also be a good idea because you might have to pay a processing fee for it (I’m sure it depends on the bank tho).

   I struggle with using coins too. Hence why I stick to paying with either a credit card or other cashless methods.

2. Use a bank ATM. Deposit the coins into the machine and it’ll go into your account. I dunno the upper limit of how many coins you can enter at once so you might have to break it up. Or you can probably just hand it to a teller.

3. I’ll take them off your hands for 500yen.

4. “I limit myself to 20 coins to not break the machine”

   This machine is made to handle money!!! Feed it coins until it rejects them.

5. Are the 1 yen coins loose or bundled together by 10s/whatever?

   Either way, go to a bank

   If loose: use the bank atm or go to a teller

   If they are bundled: go to a teller

   This will be faster in the long run

6. Become super religious, and Dump a handful each time into your local shrines coin grate thingy and maybe they’ll give you a lucky charm?

   Maybe you’ll get super-charged good luck?

7. Money can be exchanged for good and services.

8. Bank ATM is the way to go but it’s time consuming.

   My friend gave me a big bag full of coins two weeks ago. He said there was at least 5000 yens in 500, 100, 50, 10, 5 and ones.

   I spent 30 minutes sorting the coins and there was around 14000 yens overall (he’s lazy and doesn’t bother with coins, just break notes all the time at the Konbini, that’s his one year worth of coins).

   First, I went to my bank ATM and inserted all the 500 and 100. It was just under 10000 yens.

   Then I started the process of inserting the other coins. I would say the ATM cannot absorb more than 50 to 100 coins at a time. It seems there is a volume limit but also a time limit to insert them, before the lid close. Once the coins are in it takes a good 2 minutes for the machine to sort them and issue the amount. You need to re-insert your card and repeat the procedure every time. I did that like 4 times then a staff came out, watched what I was doing without saying a word.

   I felt pressure and I left. Now I still have about 2000 yens in small coins. I’m definitely going to the ATM again when I have time to get rid of them.

9. What bank do you use? At SMBC ATMs, 100 coins at a time with no charge. No limit for number of deposits.

10. Shrine donation, but maybe not all at once lol

11. Charity donation.

12. 1000 coins doesn’t really sound like *that* much to me; if you can drop ~20 coins every time you buy something at a payment kiosk (and LOTS of places use them, not just 7/11 and Life), you’ll get rid of all of them in 50 transactions

    Or if you really don’t want to deal with them, make a generous one-time donation of ¥1000 to your nearest shrine

13. Use them when the register comes up with a value like 108円？

14. I’ve seen donation boxes in some places, you could put your 1 yen coin there 🙂

15. Wait until you owe your coworker money, then give him these coins back again.

16. 7-11, just dump it all in there after you purchase their best flan.

17. Go to the bank and ask them to change it to 1000yen note or go use them in your local conbini

18. Play the “joke” back on you colleague.

19. If you only have 1000 then I would put them in a jar at home and slowly use them to pay at the konbini or the supermarket. Just make sure you’re always carrying 10-20 in your wallet and replace them as you use them.

    If you prefer to get rid of them quickly then just take them to the bank. You won’t be wasting anybody’s time (other than your own by having to wait in line), because they have coin-counting machines at virtually every bank’s branches.

20. give it to me if you dont want it.

21. Go to any store with a self-service checkout (most AEON supermarkets have them, home centres usually do too) and just dump them all into the machine when you pay for something. They take 1 yen coins and will give you change in the highest possible denominations.

    The machine is designed to handle money, it won’t break.

22. Feed them into the charity donation box next to the conbini cash register.

23. At my bank, you can deposit them, but you have to (at least pretend to) count them for the deposit slip. They’ll then run them through a coin counter, and have you fix the deposit slip as necessary. If you just try to dump a pile without (at least pretending to) count them first, they’ll send you away.

24. Buy a bunch of ブラクーサンタ、 each one is like 35¥, or just keep 15¥ on you call the time – rotate it into your purchases

25. 7/11 have coin acceptors when buying stuff. Just drop a big handful every time you go if it’s not busy. The staff members don’t care if you’re not holding up other customers

26. Use them at 7-11 or anywhere that’ll take a one yen coin. Giving exact change is also a good way to eat them up.

27. There was some post a week or so back that said you could put them onto your metro card, as long as you were spending 500 or more. That sounded like a great way to just chuck a handful of small coins into a machine and get value from them.