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How to send money from Japan to the USA at the best rate?

Monito's comparison engine could only find 3 providers available for your transfer to the USA in our database.

If the beneficiary of your transfer wants to receive US dollars in her bank account in the USA, then the most competitive provider at the moment is Wise, with 302 JPY for the transfer fees and a competitive JPY-USD conversion rate (currently at 1 JPY = 0.0076 USD).

Adding the fees and exchange rate margin, the total cost with Wise is 294.84 JPY, compared to that, you would pay a total cost of 1,544 JPY (which is approximately 5x as much) if you selected to use Xendpay for the very same transfer.

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To calculate the total cost of your transfer, we compare the exchange rate every provider applies to your transactions with the latest mid-market exchange rate data that we source from XE.