Park Hyatt Tokyo for under 100 yen a night
Sep 10, 2017, 3:06 am
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1 sen coins have not been valid since 1954, so even if you found 28 of them, they would be worth only the scrap metal value (in 1945, some were produced in clay, so have no intrinsic value) or what you can get a collector to pay for them.
Sen are used in trading stocks, but otherwise it is not possible to account in sen. It is like the American half cent, except that technically I think if you had 2 half cents you could still exchange them at a bank for a penny, whereas the deadline to do this in Japan was 1955.
Sen are used in trading stocks, but otherwise it is not possible to account in sen. It is like the American half cent, except that technically I think if you had 2 half cents you could still exchange them at a bank for a penny, whereas the deadline to do this in Japan was 1955.
This happens all the time in everyday life. If you go into a grocery store that sells hamburger at 100g for 250 yen, they are not going to charge you 247.5 yen for 99 grams. They will round to the nearest yen. Which is necessarily what would happen to a fractional yen room rate.
Sep 10, 2017, 4:45 am
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Simple solution to the fractional yen problems - book 100 nights.
Not that this has any chance of getting honored.
Not that this has any chance of getting honored.
Sep 10, 2017, 6:41 pm
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(2) Yes and no. 1/100 of a Yen is a sen. Bulk contracts can (and often are) denominated in fractions of a cent per unit (e.g. purchasing 10,000 screws), but rounded off once the dust settles. Witness gasoline prices. Shares of stock are, at least in the US, often denominated in tenths of a cent, and I'm pretty sure that fraction-of-a-cent charges are used in handling various percentage-based calculations (e.g. taxes, automatic gratuities, etc.) for purposes of carrying the amount forward.
Oct 4, 2017, 7:47 pm
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This happens all the time in everyday life. If you go into a grocery store that sells hamburger at 100g for 250 yen, they are not going to charge you 247.5 yen for 99 grams. They will round to the nearest yen. Which is necessarily what would happen to a fractional yen room rate.