How do you say "Can I use a foreign card?" in Japanese?

Name: Two ATMs on the Same Street in Japan. Only One Takes Your Foreign Card.
Uploaded: 2026-07-28T14:03:00Z
Duration: 54 s
Description: Learn to say 海外のカードは使えますか？ (kaigai no kaado wa tsukaemasu ka?) — Can I use a foreign card?. A 30-second Japanese lesson for travelers from Kōfuku.

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Two ATMs on the Same Street in Japan. Only One Takes Your Foreign Card.

To say Can I use a foreign card? in Japanese, say 海外のカードは使えますか？ (kaigai no kaado wa tsukaemasu ka?).

The bank machine just spat your card back out. It isn't your bank. It's the machine.

海外のカードは使えますか？ kaigai no kaado wa tsukaemasu ka? Can I use a foreign card?

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Kanji in this phrase

海外: かいがい

Why this phrase

A konbini counter role-play. Kofuku plays a traveller whose card was just refused by a Japanese bank ATM and who points at the machine by the door; Hana plays the konbini staff, friendly and quick. The exchange must establish that he means the ATM before the target line, so it doesn't read as asking to pay by card. The fact underneath: plenty of domestic bank ATMs only accept Japan-issued cards, while セブン銀行 and ゆうちょ machines reliably take overseas cards. The line to learn is 「海外のカードは使えますか？」. Write ATM as エーティーエム in any spoken line.