JET Program Vlog #14b - supplement - A trip to the ATM

I know, I know - I've been taking money out of this same ATM for like 3 and half years now, and I push the wrong button to make a withdrawal...

You all make me so nervous!! LOL

Nah - I just messed up. But hopefully you'll find this little add-on vid useful.
I took out a little over $200 (22,000yen). As I've said, Japan is a cash society. So I knew that I'd need to put some gas in my car, buy groceries, have dinner and see a movie, etc this week and it's all done with cash.

More soon.
-JCH

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[Duckhugger]

That's odd, the ATMs here in Miyazaki, Japan all have English modes you can select at the start (as well as some other languages sometimes). Nothing like that at this ATM? Generally, while I try to live most of my life in Japanese here (as a student)... when it comes to matters of automated machines that handle your money... I'm a little too nervous about possibly making mistakes... so I opt for the English there.

[myargonauts]

yeah - where I live is a little too inaka for an English option. For the five years I lived in Taisha, I was probably the only non-Japanese person who used this ATM, other than the random foreign tourist, but the chances of them having a JA account would be very rare.

[nyannyan123456]

is it just me or is the recorded voices in japan all sound the same

[myargonauts]

haha - yeah - I think they hire the same woman for everything! :D

[DonDiegoLego]

You make it look easy. I'd be so confused, I'd probably be homeless out there.

[myargonauts]

JET will give you a home.. :)

And my first few times I dragged my supervisor along to make sure I was hitting the right buttons.

[megamapagmahal]

its only on JAPAN NOT to other country ULOL kaa

[Duckhugger]

Interesting, I suppose I just assumed that the JA machines would all be standardized throughout Japan or something. I guess not.

[DeeDoubleYou81]

Just had to revisit this as I will soon be "experiencing" the ATM. :)

[maxm2006]

You are right. Keiko Nakamura(中村啓子) is the most famous narrator for ATMs/Shinkansen/NTT/NTT Docomo, etc.. many companies hire her because her voice frequency matches requirement for voice recorders.

About English announcement, especially on trains in Tokyo--JR lines, Odakyu lines, Seibu lines, Tokyo Metro etc..--a famous narrator called Christelle Ciari is voicing everything except for Shinkansen. You will be surprised to notice all the voices are the same on trains in Tokyo.

[42317]

So you're wearing a tie... wild design, man... :-)