You can buy postcards in many places in Japan. Postcards can be gifts or other uses. In this article, I would like to introduce postcards sold at post offices and how to use postcards during and after travel.
How are postcards purchased at the tourist site used?
You can buy postcards at tourist destinations in Japan. Postcards are often bought as a souvenir when coming to a new land, but many people may wonder about their use.
In this article, I would like to introduce you how to use postcards and types of postcards that can be purchased at the post office.
Can experience on a trip or after returning home! 3 ways to use postcards
1. Popular postcards sent to themselves after returning home
Above picture is a universal postcard that can be purchased at the post office. Inuhariko dog picture postcard has 72 yen tax price. (Inuhariko: Teddy dogs are made by gluing up wooden dog images, bamboo or clay). Postcard painted with Mount Fuji and apricot flowers with a tax of 108 yen.
There are about 30 types of postcards sold at the post office that print plants such as apricot flowers, pine trees or animals like dogs, cats and other common types seen in Japan. Please find a postcard you love to give yourself a gift after returning home.
Please buy a postcard, write the destination, feel, or the weather that day and send it to yourself. If you send in your trip, you will receive it after returning home, so it will be fun twice.
Instead of a fee when buying a postcard is a stamp. If you send overseas, you need to pay 70 yen. Postcards include postage (**) like postcard for the new year (*), please add 18 yen stamp and send it.
(*) New year postcard Nengajo …… Nengajo is a letter sent to celebrate the new year. At the end of the year, Japanese post offices often sell "Postcard to celebrate the new year". This postcard includes stamps, so there is no need to stamp.
(**) Postage fee for sending postcards varies from 52 yen to 62 yen in 2018. When sending postcards purchased before 2017, you may need to add additional stamps. Please ask the post office for details.
2. Save a postcard character postcard limited to post office after returning home
This postcard is designed by Mizumori Ado, who draws cartoon characters, is a postcard of characters only at post offices. 1 postcard with 108 yen tax price.
Character postcards have many very nice designs, you can put them into files to make collections.
Depending on the different places of visit, seals are also available only in those localities. If stamped on the back of the postcard, you will save more memories of the trip. The seal is usually located at stations or tourist centers.
This is the seal of Asakusa Tourist Culture Center, Taito District. This is an Asakusa-style design with yachts, pandas at Ueno zoo, and Kaminarimon gate.
At some post offices, you can also close the landscape seal. If you bring postcards stamped to the post office counter, you will be stamped.
3. Get the visiting place on the Form Card of each locality as a tourist destination
This is a local Form Card. This is a postcard taking pictures of famous dishes in the local or famous local shapes.
Depending on the region in which the category is different, there is also a yearly Form Card, so you can collect different postcards each year.
The price of a postcard with tax is from 185 yen to 250 yen. If you send overseas, you need 50 yen more. Depending on the destination, you can send it abroad with a stamp of about 250 yen.
I already have the Form Card of Tokyo Sky Tree. This is a limited design in 2017, 2018. Let's quickly go to the visiting place on this design.
When taking a photo of a Form Card and a real thing, you get a picture of yourself!
Source: https://matcha-jp.com/vn/5547
