Discount Ticket Shops in Japan 日本的折扣票店

Discount ticket shops are shops where people sell their unwanted tickets, cards and vouchers, and where people can buy them at a discount of up to 5% off the original price. The shops are always located around major train stations with a shinkansen stop. In Shinjuku, there are many outside the West gate and I find that the furthest one provides the best savings, although negligible to most people.

折扣票店賣的是比市價便宜5%的各類門票，車票，讀書卡，電話卡，購物券等。因為這些都是那些不需要它們的人賣出去的，所以大家可放心購買，都沒問題的。店鋪通常都位於有新幹線的主要電車站附近。在新宿西口也有不少，越遠的會賣得越便宜。

These shops sell anything from concert and baseball match tickets, shinkansen tickets, rail passes, department store vouchers, to telephone and Tosho cards.

任何演奏票，演唱會入門票，賽票，新幹線車票，電車票，購物券，電話卡或圖書卡都能在這些店買到。

Tosho cards, cards which have cash value and used for buying books, come in denominations of 500yen, 1000yen, 2000yen, 5000yen and 10000yen. A 10,000yen card may be bought by paying 9490yen, and a 2000yen card may be bought by paying 1910yen. Though meager, I had managed to save 90 yen for a bottle of precious Mt. Fuji water this way!

圖書卡是全國通用的一種現金卡，只能在大書店使用來買書。卡的儲值有500yen, 1000yen, 2000yen, 5000yen 和 10000yen。一張10,000yen的卡可以以9490yen來購買。一張2000yen的卡也可以以1910yen來購買。通過這方法我省下了鼻屎般的90yen，足夠買一瓶從富士山流下來的天然礦泉水！

*Note: They don't sell Tosho cards as nice as mine.
*他們售賣的卡沒我的好看。