Can I use UnionPay cards for Japanese tourism?

UnionPay savings cards cannot be sold abroad. UnionPay credit cards can be sold in overseas duty-free shops, and small supermarkets cannot use UnionPay. Small supermarkets still need to use visa or MasterCard. Take UnionPay and directly change Japanese yen into RMB to give you the bill. To get a visa, you have to change it into dollars first, and the currency conversion fee is 1~2%.

Data expansion UnionPay card is a kind of card in China, including credit card and debit card. The first six digits of the bank card number are used to indicate the issuing bank or institution, which is called the bank identification number (BIN). According to the ISO/IEC78 12 document, the 9-prefix BIN number is designated by domestic standards organizations and is not suitable for global use. At the end of June, 2002, 5438+ 10, China UnionPay applied to ISO for 800 6-prefix BIN numbers, which are used internationally and domestically.

UnionPay standard card conforms to China's unified business norms and technical standards, and is a high-quality, international and independent brand bank card with independent intellectual property rights in China. The issuance and promotion of UnionPay standard cards is of great significance;

Issuing and promoting UnionPay standard cards and building independent bank card brands are conducive to safeguarding the national financial information security, maintaining the right to speak of domestic member institutions in the development of China's bank card industry, mastering the independent power to formulate standards and norms in the process of industrial development, and safeguarding the long-term interests of domestic member institutions and the interests of cardholders.

Issuing and promoting UnionPay standard cards and building independent bank card brands are the premise and foundation for domestic member institutions to build independent brands, which is conducive to enhancing the cohesion and industrial strength of domestic bank card industry and coping with the competition and challenges of overseas institutions after the transition period of WTO.

The issuance and promotion of UnionPay standard cards can not only ensure the universal use in China, but also speed up the construction of overseas acceptance networks to meet the growing demand of China people for cards for overseas business, tourism and study abroad. At present, UnionPay network has extended to Asia-Pacific, Europe, America, Africa, Australia and other countries and regions. In addition, the use of RMB UnionPay cards in overseas UnionPay network consumption can directly realize the conversion between foreign currency and RMB, reduce the trouble of currency exchange and save the cost of currency exchange.

UnionPay standard cards have the following two features that are easy to identify:

(1) On the front of the card, only the logo of the bank card organization UnionPay is in the lower right corner.

(2) The first two digits of the card number are 62.

China UnionPay card _ Baidu Encyclopedia