declan_murphy@hotmail.com wrote:
> John W. wrote:
> > declan_murphy@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> >  > AFAIK there are no branches around here. Apparently I just open an
> >  > account by postal mail.
> >  >
> > I'd personally avoid that. We had a Citibank account here in the US
> > after moving from California to Tennessee, and Citibank has no branch
> > even close. There were many instances where we found ourselves wanting
> > to go to the bank and it was frustrating to not be able to.
>
> There is one branch, err "financial center" in Nagoya apparently.
> Thankfully it appears that it isn't one of the branches they have that
> are co-located with a Starbucks franchise. Everything else I apparently
> do online or via post office & conbini ATMs.

We do 90% of our banking online nowadays; I love it. But it used to
piss me off that I couldn't go to a branch. Of course, in Japan you
don't get checks quite as much as in the US, which was why I needed a
branch.

John W.