Why do Japanese ATMs dispense money stacked differently to those in the west?

7/15/2016 12:14:32 AM

Qualifier: I live in Japan and have used those ATMs thousands of times.

ATMs at banks here (usually not the ones at convenience stores) accept cash deposits. And by cash I don’t mean you put the money in an envelope and tell the machine how much is there, I mean you put the money into the tray and the machine counts it and tells YOU how much is there.

Yes, it is possible for customer B to receive exactly the same banknote that customer A deposited 5 minutes previously.

The same mechanism is used for deposits and withdrawals, so the reason for the large bin should now be obvious – it is designed around the need to accept paper money, not just dispense it.

The machines accept (and dispense) coin as well. That’s what the smaller bin on the left side is for. They only accept up to about 200 coins at a time so emptying the change bin isn’t as convenient as it sounds, but it’s way easier than rolling.

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