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Can someone living in Japan please find out if contactless payments made through Google Pay or Apple Pay are accepted in Yodobashi? And specifically, if they are done through a virtual Visa card through one of these systems, if they are eligible for the special 5% tourist discount paying with Visa card (on top of the standard 8% tourist discount).

The reason is that I want to make a large purchase and my card issuer recently switched to MasterCard for physical cards. But I still have one virtual Visa card.

Thank you!

Alejandro
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As of November 2019, almost no businesses in Japan accepted contactless payments by international cards or virtual cards, due to inadequate equipment or the cashier not knowing how to (or not caring enough to) set the machine to accept contactless payments from virtual international cards.

The only business that I can recall accepted virtual contactless payments was the Mamma Aiuto shop inside the Ghibli Museum.

Hopefully things will be easier during/after the Olympics!

Alejandro
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