Travel Agent

The other weekend we went to a travel agent to ask about some options for the coming Christmas break. She didn't seem too keen to help or suggest anything, but she did give us a few ideas about prices and destinations.

However at the end of our little discussion she tells us that they do not accept credit cards at all. We would have to pay for our whole trip in cash! She said it like it was the most normal thing in the world to withdraw thousands of dollars from the bank, take it across to their office and just count it out.

Another example of Japan's juxtaposition of the super modern and highly primitive.