Originally Posted by
jamar
If anyone's wondering, DCC is finally being implemented in Japan. I just got hit with it a couple hours ago. Fairly easy to avoid, but I have no idea what I would've been taken for because all it prompted was 外貨決済(DCC)対象カードです はい\いいえ (Essentially "This card can do payments in foreign currency (DCC) yes/no"). Pushing "no" produced a DCC-free slip.
Where in Japan? It seems like this disease is spreading...
What if I didn't have access to the terminal in Japan, and the cashier didn't know what it was and just pressed accept?