今日は銀行口座を解約しました
9時オープンの銀行の入り口に10分前から並んで、先頭で窓口に到着
しかし窓口の係りに口座解約を依頼すると、窓口でなく個別相談のブースに行くように指示され、一つだけ空いていたブースに入りました
日本の銀行と同じように解約の理由を聞かれ、それを紙に書かされました
次に小切手帳を返却ですが、残った小切手すべてに斜線を引き無効という文字を書き込みます
さらに一枚だけ小切手を残し、それに口座残高を記入します
そのまま預けて1時間後に取りに来るよう言われ、指定の1時間後に行くと口座残高の現金が用意されていて、これを受け取り解約は終了です
ほかの隊員から聞いたところでは一日がかりだったというのでちょっと心配していましたが、9時から10時半の1時間半で済みました
Today I closed my bank account.
I had stood at the front of the bank door 10 minutes prior to the opening 9:00 am.
I arrived at the counter teller and asked her to close an account but she said go to the special booth.
I entered to the only one vacant booth and asked the teller.
As well as Japanese bank they asked the reason of the closing and I wrote on the paper the reason and my signature.
Next I crossed out the all remained checks and wrote “void” except for only one check.
And I wrote the final balance of the account on the check.
I kept all of them and 1 hour later visited there again and received remained cash.
The other JOCV said that he had spent almost one day for closing the account and I was little anxious but it was not so bad.
It took only one and half hours of 9:00 to 10:30.