A note on Japanese money, also, creatures!

I knew going in beforehand that Japan is a mainly cash society. It is common to have as much as 2 to 3 hundred dollars on your person at a time. What I didn't know was that the smallest bill was 1000yen, or 10 dollars. Lower than 10 dollars is all in coins. Yup. There are 500, 100, 50, 10, 5, and 1 yen coins. They look like this:

I'm still getting used to treating coins and actual valuable money. Also, it doesn't help that the 1 yen coin feels like monopoly money. Sometimes I run out of bills and go 'crap, i'm out of money...' only to discover I still have over 10-20 dollars in coins. As far as bills go, I've only seen 1000, 5000, and 10000 yen bills. (10,50,100 dollars, roughly)

Now for creatures! I've had the pleasure of running into a few animals that were not concerned at all that we were there. Here's a compilation of some of these doubutsu (animals).