"Clive D. W. Feather" wrote in message
...
In article , Paul Corfield
writes
I can't think of a city anywhere that
makes it easy for people with loads of fresh, high denomination
currency
to use standard public transport services.

Tokyo: at a metro station somewhere in the centre, the machine happily
accepted my approx-50-pound banknote and issued ticket and (approx 49
pounds 50) change.

Was the change in notes or coins?

Peter Smyth