It's like a chewy sweet, but this I don't know how to make water be much, but it's pretty much just like a jelly kind of thing.

And in it are these, like pieces of mango, but they're kind of crispy.

I don't know how they've done it, but it tastes so good.

If you're watching too, you might not know who I am.

So hello, I'm Emma, and I'm from Australia Right now.

I'm living in Japan and I'm here on the working holiday visa.

The working holiday visa that you could get in Australia is six months long, but you could extend it two more times, so it could be a year, six months.

But it doesn't say that anywhere on the visa.

It just says six months on Dhe.

If you get that visa, I think it's a great things up because it gives you a lot more freedom than on the basis give you.

But it can be very restrictive because of that.

There are some things that you can't do because it just says six months for today.

I'm just gonna focus and tell you the story of my experience with banks and why you might need a bank and different banks and banks in relation to the six months Rocky holiday visa and its problems with what I do like agencies.

A lot of agencies will only pay you through your bank account if you're with a certain bank.

I thought with all the agencies from what a friend told me that they would only pay you if you weren't with a post office bank.

Otherwise, they just pay you in cash.

Andi.

So my aim was to not be with the post office.

Thank That was like my main aim because then I could get direct deposit into my bank account and it would just be easy.

And yeah, I thought it would just be easy peasy, literally Japanese E.

But it it was not that way.

Rule number one bank accounts don't trust everything you read on the Internet.

If you come in with a working whole day visa, that is six months or any visa that is less than a year.

You cannot go with Shin se, no matter what you read on the Internet.

A lot of places on the Internet, I found said, Oh, if you go to certain branches, if you speak to the right people, if you really convince them that you need this bank account, you can get with Shin Se And the reason I want to say is they were one of the highest rates that the most recommended, the easiest to you used most foreign a friendly online banking.

Just send it.

I'll just like Heck, yeah, that sounds great.

My story is I went to what I want when I because I thought, OK, that's a big branch they'll speak to it will speak English like they'll speak Foreigner.

Come on, Brian.

So I went to when I I thought I will speak English.

They'll understand my situation, and they'll be helpful if not on the Internet.

It's said that the branching punky was really good to people with six month phases so good that and my other friend had mentioned Hachi.

Georgie.

So I was like, Yeah, I'm set one of them work.

So, you know, I got there and I was like, Oh, I need a bank account.

They like cool.

And they look to visit there like we can't do it.

Just that they were very certain there was no kind of I can't I don't think we can do this.

I'm pretty sure we can't.

Is that It Looks like we cannot do this.

And I was like, Okay, I just really need a bank account.

And I really want to know what she said.

And I was doing the whole like, Please help me.

Anything.

But they were very fun.

Like, we cannot do this.

Uh, the thing that you could do is you're gonna get your visa changed, get it changed to one year.

You can t o really gonna do that.

I called them by their foreign help thing and I was like, Hey, I just want to get an account.

But six months, Is there any way that I can change that?

They know, very set.

I was like, Okay, but hates the places on the incident said that I could go with Shin Se if I just went and found the right people in the right places.

So then I went to Punky and I got there and I found out the branch in Robin Hood just completely closed down and had moved to Shibuya.

But I heard and should be are my other friend got rejected from there and she had a one year.

So when I was in Rome, Punky and I had a doctor's appointment.

So I need you like I didn't have time for the rest of the day to go out and find the banks.

I gave up that day and tomorrow I'm gonna try to Georgie, give it a final red hot guy shouldn't say.

And I didn't realize how far we have to.

Georgie was from a So I traveled from a home time and I go talk to Georgie and I got to the bank like, Hey, do you speak English?

And they're like, No, but that's okay.

Can I get a bank account?

Yes.

And then I gave him my card.

We can't We can't do this.

I like just It's like, please, I've seen everywhere.

People on the Internet said I could do it if I went to the right places.

I need help.

I need a bank.

Camera isn't a post office bank account.

You were highly recommended.

I'm so sorry.

Please help me.

And they're like, Oh, you could You could change.

You should change your visa.

So it's one year Just change your visa and didn't come back here.

And I'm like, I can't.

And the funny thing is, they don't know we're dealing with with unhappy people, so just kind of small, like okay, huh?

I call it take my visa, bill, like, Oh, I okay.

Oh, this guy So that I left.

I was like, right, I can just get a post office bank account.

And so I went all the way back to when are my friend told me that he got a post office bank account at Shibuya.

Um, and he lives in your body's always like Okay, you just got any of them.

They'll just give your bank account.

And I was like, See, that's awesome.

So I went to when I and I went in there and it was always just con gee just full con ge and I looked around.

I couldn't find anything that said, like, bank account.

It's something that they don't say go here to get a bank account.

They have a list of things that you could do And it was like this counters for savings or parts.

This Countess for parts.

There's nothing that said, like, get a post office bank account here So into the savings account counter account I went to this Anything's counter.

I was like, Oh, hi, Can I get a bank account like hockey?

Where can he go when you live?

There?

Just just give me Yu In Japanese society, you card.

But I do coddle, but it's, uh, Varna.

You're foreign residency college.

He's like, Give me that your possible.

And I gave it to him and I looked at the address on the back and he was like, We can't We can't give you this account like you Give me the account, please.

And he's like, Oh, you need to go to the post office closest to you.

I like How do you know which one that is?

He's like, No, he's like thanks anyway, my by And by that point it was like 5 p.m. And then, luckily they were next to solo career.

Okay, so I had to sell a carrier, and that's like selling out my feelings.

And it was so good.

And then finally, the day after I went to the post office closest to Mae it's really close, which is convenient because I live in, like, this old people neighborhood.

It's a really small town parsed office, Thank it like no English.

I said this song, I was like, Oh, I want to bank account.

And he was like, uh huh.

And I hate when that happens because it's like that's supposed to be your cue to be like, Oh, let me help you with that A little time I guess it went like, Oh, I want this in the light.

I'm gonna just stand there and I'm like, good club happen.

So hey, can I have this gonna have this?

And I have to try and, like, explain myself why I wanted and how I wanted to do anything I know how to do just to try to cue them, to go for it.

I said, Oh, I want to buy Candies like uh huh, I just said, I'm really sorry.

My Japanese is really bad.

I just want a bank account in.

He's like And I'm like, uh, money a bank.

Uh, post office, bank, uh, money.

Uh, and he was like, Oh, so do you want to put money into your account like, No, I want I want to account.

Oh, you wanted account?

Yeah, as I do.

If you come to Japan, 100%.

Make sure that you have the Google translate.

It has saved my soul a 1,000,000 times.

It's not the best.

The best translation app if you're going for, like, really technical stuff.

But if you just need if you're looking at a piece of paper and it's just like Colin gee, Central, you just get your Google translate and you just press the photo take for everything, and you take a picture, something it'll skin the Japanese, and then you could just highlight it with your finger, and it will just translate it to basically what they're trying to say.

And as off my heart has saved my life so many times.

I am not sponsored by chance.

So I was using that a lot of time through this because before I went to the post office bank account, I read this article by the Japan guy I think it is.

And he says, If you want to rest up a bank account in Japan, here's all the steps and he shows you, like, form that they use on dhe all the information on how to ask for and how to use it and what you need to say.

And it was, I think it's outdated.

That might be it, because it was different.

I think this, like this piece of paper was like pink, and it was like this big and I had, like, individual little sections, and for mine, it was this huge piece of blue paper with all these options that I was like, I don't know what this is even if I try and fight it.

I was like, What?

But the guy was okay.

Like if if you go to sign up for anything in Japan, just start to learn the basic Japanese doesn't need to be the country, but just the basic Japanese for what you're doing.

So you need to know address like Do Short is addressed.

Insurance is Hawkin.

I remember that, like I don't know why I remember it like someone's big Ken.

I haven't relates to insurance But anyway, long story short, I managed to get it done.

One thing that he asked me to do, he's like, Okay, so why do you need the bank account?

I wanted to say I just want to put money in it when I get it from an employer because I'm gonna be paid in cash.

We'll just have some way I can store it.

Um, but that wasn't an option.

He gave me lots of options.

The only one I remember is direct sending of salary into post of his bank account.

And that was the closest I could get.

Like everything else was like, I want to saving.

So I don't want to take any out.

I want to do this.

I wanna have a family account.

It all got done.

It'll be done.

But yes.

So far, I haven't used to bank account for anything I've had, like, four months.

But I always use my one back in Australia, Michael.

They like my phone bills and everything are all taking money out of my Australian bank account.

So if you want that changed, you should get a Japanese thing.

And if you got working on the day visa.

You have to get it with the post office bank if anyone spend it.

If I like going with another bank like is you f j Here, there.

Um, please write the comments down below to help anyone out if they're having any troubles.

But that's being my journey.

And also, I went to my agency and I signed up.

And because I got told that, you know, they won't take most of the State Council.

Okay, I should say.

And then I went there, and they're like, Oh, so can we send the money?

So I'm like, Oh, no, sorry.

Post office can't like That's okay.

And then I saw a piece of paper.

It's like we do know except post office bank accounts or shouldn't say hi guys from the future Here.

I was just editing through the footage and I didn't actually say goodbye or anything.

I just got really distracted and went off topic in left.

Just gonna finish this up If you have anything to add.

If you have any advice for anyone else trying to get a bank account, just leave it in the comments below.

Any questions?

Same thing.

Thanks so much for watching.

And if you like this video lever, thumbs up down below.

So I know if you want more of this kind of stuff.

All right, guys, I'll see you next time, John.