How do you say "out of change (exact coins only)" in Japanese?

Name: The Machine Has Your Note and Keeps Spitting It Back. One Small Light Says Why.
Uploaded: 2026-09-08T14:56:51Z
Duration: 19 s
Description: Learn to say つり銭切れ (tsurisen-gire) — out of change (exact coins only). A 30-second Japanese lesson for travelers from Kōfuku.

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The Machine Has Your Note and Keeps Spitting It Back. One Small Light Says Why.

To say out of change (exact coins only) in Japanese, say つり銭切れ (tsurisen-gire).

It has the drink. It took your thousand-yen note. It just spat it straight back out. Again.

つり銭切れ tsurisen-gire out of change (exact coins only)

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つり銭切れ。おつりが出ません。 Tsurisen-gire. Otsuri ga demasen. Out of change. No change will come out.
つり銭切れですね。じゃあ、小銭で買います。 Tsurisen-gire desu ne. Jā, kozeni de kaimasu. It is out of change. I will buy it with coins, then.

Why this phrase

A Japanese vending machine refuses notes it cannot give change for, and a small lit label by the coin slot says why: 「つり銭切れ」, out of change, not out of order. Japan has no banknote smaller than 1,000 yen, so the fix is coins, and the exact amount, because nothing will come back.