Count down to Japan - exchanging USD for JPY

Japanese yen

We have less than a week before we leave on our trip to Japan, and we still have a lot to do before we leave. I ordered yen from our bank and picked it up earlier this week.

According to the website http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/USDJPY:CUR the current exchange rate is 97.82 yen to 1 dollar. You can check with your bank to find out how to exchange money. You can always exchange money at the airport but depending on what bank you use it might be easier to exchange money before hand so you don't have to worry about doing it later. Also, there's typically a fee to exchange money at the airport, but if you exchange money at your bank, some banks have lower fees or no fees depending on what type of account you have with them. If you are going to get money from your bank you want to make sure you go in soon. Not all of them have foreign currency on hand and they have to order it, which can take 1-2 days for them to deliver. For us, it only took one day.

I'll be posting more tips on packing and preparing to travel in the next few days and I will try to do frequent posts while we are in Japan. Please feel free to follow our blog and make comments.