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found a suica card today

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Tokyo, 2020.08.08

I found Suica card with a recent date on the street. The cards are the prepaid cash cards used for transit systems but also for all manner of retail and online shopping. I turned the card in at the local police box and they asked if I wanted to put my name down for a reward. After turning that down, Mari told me they ask because sometimes those cards are loaded with millions of yen!

Millions of yen (tens of thousands of dollars) on a card you can (and do) drop?

rand()m quote

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

—Henry David Thoreau