Hi fellow Tagers,
I've never encountered any problems with my credit cards here in Japan; however, today here in Tennoji the hotel and the dining place I visited about 5 hours ago both tried and both my cards were denied after trying multiple times. I had to pay cash.
I called Bank of America to verify my card was ok and there were no holds or blocks on them and they confirmed it showed everything on their end was good. They asked that next time if it doesn't work, try to have the person manually punch in the card numbers, but employees here in Tennoji said their machines were not equipped to do a manual transmission.
Damn, I may have to cancel one of three visits with the women. I feel so bad if I have to do so after the receptionists went thru so much effort to convince 2 of 3 women to come in if possible and to go to a different location than where they were scheduled to work.
Anybody have any issues in Tennoji before with credit cards? Last year when I came I didn't only this time.
Any ideas?