NY has taken me to pick up my alien id and later on to the bank to set up account. I had to buy hanko in order to open an account. They also made me write everything with kanji, which was a disaster))) And I also had to verify with hanko that i do not belog to yakuza... Most interesting that my hanko says "katano" instead of my real name))) (to ordeer custom made only for one bank account is too expensive for me)
I was gonna exchange some $ but NY said that he were to give me a better rate so we agreed on that one.