Everything is done in cold hard cash in Japan

Today, I had to exchange $7,000 of us money to yen. The exchange rate was favorable for the US today. It was about 103.07 yen to one US dollar. So I ended up making about $210! Wow. But unfortunately, I have to carry all that money around. All, 721,000 worth of yen... yeah, it was a huge stack of bills. It is the most foreign currency, I've ever dealt with. Anyways, I plan on handing over 171,100 over to my landlord this Thursday. I'm pretty uncomfortable with all of this.


725,000 YEN