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Shopper's paradise
found in Tokyo

I WENT to my bank the other day and handed them 5,000
yen and they gave me $37 CDN for them.

Perhaps that’s the first lesson
any traveller to Japan ought to
learn. You'll get a better rate of
exchange if you do your trans-
actions in Japan.

I’m nc banker — in fact I can’t
seem to keep my own account
balanced. I don’t even try — I
just keep atout $100 in reserve as
a slush furd and the account
flagged so that any overdraft will
revert to my savings account. I tell
you this only because | don’t want
four economists and a bank man-
ager jumping down my throat.

travel

wise
Barbara McCreadie
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Bui I listen to other travellers,
especially business people who
make regular trips to Japan. Two
pieces of advice emerged: change
only enough money into yen be-
fore you leave home to get you to
your hotel in Japan and use air-
port currency exchanges on an
emergency basis only.

As for credit cards, another
business traveller told me that his
company policy is to put all ex-
penses on his plastic.

But, when he shops for himself
he uses nothing but cash (dollars
changed to yen at a Japanese
bank). I’m going to keep that in

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mind on my next visit. Mind you,
I didn’t do a lot of shopping in
Japan.

Now, more about shopping.
Yes, the prices can be very high.
However, the selection of goods is
so tantalizing that I'd have gone
ahead, ‘‘Damn the torpedoes!”’ if
I'd had the time.

I’m not talking about souvenirs
and kimonas, either. Anyone who
likes clothes, jewelry, antiques or
(like me) china, pottery and home
accessories could go bankrupt.

I’tl leave the clothes and jewelry
to your own discretion, but I must
tell you about the home ac-
cessories.

We visited one of the biggest
and most luxurious department
stores in Tokyo: Takashimaya.

I've got the address in Japa-
nese, but that won’t do you a lot
of good. Have your hotel give you
subway instructions — there's a
stop right under the store — and
have them write out everything in
Japanese also, in case you get
lost.

Don’t miss a walk through the
grocery floor downstairs even if
you couldn’t care jess about the
price of rice in Japan.

It’s enormous, bright, spotless,
crowded and full of products that
you'll never recognize. Style? Like
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