Oh! You're the only one to quote-ask me instead of quote-tell me that I don't know what I'm talking about, so I'll happily point out things I've heard:
- Bank tellers will hard push foreign customers to apply online, either because they can't understand them or they've been told to do so.
- Often foreign customers are ineligible to apply online and will be told to bring your residence card and go back in a branch.
- Branch will often tell you to schedule appointment online to come back and open an account.
- I bet that a residence card won't be enough and you'll be sent back to get your passport, stamp, visa, etc.
- This was the first Reddit result when I searched on some of these problems and I'm seeing some people say "bring a copy of a bill in your name to help prove residence" ... You can't normally rent a place w/o a Japanese bank account. I don't believe you can get a normal phone account either, it's why a couple of streamers backed an e-sim company so you can skip at least some of the hassle and just get down to work/play.
Since some people hate reading, how about listening to 3 streamers talk about how difficult some interactions are with banks, even when one of them is a Japanese citizen!
<- the 2021 episode that just rocket-starts how difficult it is to deal with Japanese banks
<- The bank part of the '5 year anniversary of Trash Taste Podcast people talking about the worst things about Japan' episode.
<- Having account problems because of logging in to the fucking site. Reason? Google Translate would run as a native part of Google Chrome.