Originally Posted by
austin.d.powers
If you're in Japan, with a Chase Saffire Reserve (CSR) you can take out as much as you want at ONLY the visa settlement rate and the bank will refund all the ATM charges.
I load it immediately onto my ICOCA.
But Credit Card is so much more accepted now than even a few years ago, that I prefer to get the 3+% cash back/points.
Thanks for this information on the Chase Sapphire Reserve, we have it as well…but, don’t you get charged a cash advance fee if withdrawing money with the CSR vs using my bank card (Bank of America) as ATM withdrawal? In the past pre pandemic times we just used the ATM and withdraw local currency upon arrival at airport ATM’s and consider any ATM fees negligible - would appreciate your insight on this.