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The Tokyo Traveler

July 14th, 2008

Old Money at the Banknote and Postage Stamp Museum

Do you love money? At the Banknote and Postage Stamp Museum in Shinjuku you can see a lot of money, and it’s old money!
The National Printing Bureau was founded in 1871 as the Paper Money Office (Shiheishi) under the Ministry of Finance and they have engaged in the manufacture of banknotes and postage stamps […]

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March 24th, 2008

Japanese Currency - The Yen

The unit of Japanese currency is the Yen. Coins are available in denominations of 1, 5, 10, 50, 100 and 500 yen and bank notes in denominations of 1,000, 2,000 (rarely seen), 5,000 and 10,000 yen.
The conversion rate for the past few weeks has ranged from 100 to 114. What does this mean? […]

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