Let’s have fun learning about
the new banknotes
coming on July 3, 2024!
Let’s have fun learning about
the new banknotes
coming on July 3, 2024!
Designs of the 10,000 yen, 5,000 yen, and 1,000 yen notes will be changed on July 3, 2024.
Let’s take a look at the designs and features of each new banknote denomination!
Please review what you have learned by taking the quizzes at the end of this page.
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New banknote designs
New banknote designs
Let’s take a closer look at the new designs of
the 10,000 yen, 5,000 yen, and 1,000 yen notes.
Please click on the images, and you can observe the banknotes in 3D!
  • 10,000 yen note
10,000 yen note
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Portrait on the banknote
Eiichi Shibusawa
He laid the foundation of Japanese economy during the Meiji era.

Design
Tokyo Station Marunouchi Building: A historically significant structure designated as an important cultural property
Portraits on the banknotes
Eiichi Shibusawa He laid the foundation of Japanese economy during the Meiji era.

Design
Tokyo Station Marunouchi Building: A historically significant structure designated as an important cultural property
  • 5,000 yen note
5,000 yen note
5,000 yen note
Portrait on the banknote
Umeko Tsuda
She devoted her life to women’s education during the Meiji era.

Design
Fuji (wisteria): A flower widely beloved in Japan since ancient times
  • 1,000 yen note
1,000 yen note
1,000 yen note
Portrait on the banknote
Shibasaburō Kitasato
He conducted research on infectious diseases that were feared at that time.

Design
“Under the Great Wave off Kanagawa” from the series “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji”: A representative work of ukiyo-e by KATSUSHIKA Hokusai, an ukiyo-e artist of the Edo era, and one of Japan’s representative ukiyo-e prints.
Portraits on the banknotes
Shibasaburō Kitasato He conducted research on infectious diseases that were feared at that time.

Design
“Under the Great Wave off Kanagawa” from the series “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji”: A representative work of ukiyo-e by KATSUSHIKA Hokusai, an ukiyo-e artist of the Edo era, and one of Japan’s representative ukiyo-e prints.
Anti-counterfeiting technologies of the new banknotes
Anti-counterfeiting technologies of the new banknotes
This content introduces the anti-counterfeiting technologies
used for the first time on the new banknotes.
  • High-definition watermark
Fine patterns of watermarking are added around the watermark portrait.
Fine patterns of watermarking are added
around the watermark portrait.
High-definition watermark
  • 3D hologram
The face on the hologram is rotated depending on the viewing angle.
3D hologram
3D hologram
3D hologram
3D hologram
Banknote Quiz
Banknote Quiz
Let’s review what we have learned with quizzes.
The questions presented here are all important things to know.
Please keep challenging yourself until you get all the answers right and
then share what you have learned with others.

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