Dan Rempel wrote:

> And then, for no apparent reason, you'll come across ATMs like the ones
> at Nagasaki-eki; they quite happily take your card and deliver cash,
> asking no more than your PIN. Of course, the next, apparently identical
> one that you see will stubbornly refuse to do anything but suck its teeth.

The most reliable ones I have found are the post offices that are
actually in the major train stations. Those seem to take foreign cards
quite reliably. I had a disaster a few years back with a scuba trip on
Ohshima, where neither the dive shop, the bank, or the island post
office would accept my Visa. I wound up wiring the cash to the shop when
I got back to the states.
KWW