Are there still any ATMs in Japan that don't charge fees for withdrawing with a foreign card?
I just got back to Japan for the first time in five years.
I seem to recall that that some ATMs here don't accept foreign cards, some do but charge a fee, and some do and charge no fee.
I'm 100% aware of the fees my bank at home charges me to use ATMs overseas, I'm not asking about that.
I believe it used to be that the Post Office ATMs and the ones at 7-Eleven didn't charge fees. But when I used my first 7-Eleven one this trip it did charge a fee. Googling, I have found that Post Office ATMs now charge a fee but since results were still saying 7-Eleven doesn't charge a fee I can see such pages are not up-to-date.
Does anybody know which, if any, ATMs in Japan still don't have a fee?
Best Answer
From my experience today (6 September 2019) with a Visa Debit card issued by a major French bank, it seems that Aeon Bank ATMs do not charge fees (or if they do, they don't tell you*, which would be surprising).
Aeon Bank ATMs are unfortunately not as ubiquitous as Japan Post Bank or Seven Bank ones, but can still be easily found nationwide using a dedicated locator tool. Note also that not all Aeon Bank ATMs accept foreign card, but the English version of the locator tool only shows those that do.
* More precisely, while they do show standard boilerplate language along the lines of "some fees may be charged depending on your card", they do not show an additional confirmation screen with an actual amount, unlike Japan Post Bank and Seven Bank ATMs, which do show such a screen. Receipts don't mention any fees, either.
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