It is one of the highest value circulating banknotes in the world, worth around 630 USD, 4,000 CNY, 50,100 JPY, 600 CHF or 400 GBP.
The company indicated that it had suspended production plans by 2012 due to lack of dealers outside Japan and put the cost of a single H-4 at JPY 7,500,000.00 (about US$80,887.59 in 2013).
New York for one dollar as in Tokyo for 360 Yen, the pegged nominal exchange rate at the time.
The overall project cost was JPY 11,020 million, or 18% less than the budgeted cost.
JR West purchased the line in October 1991 at a cost of 974.1 billion JPY (about 7.2 billion USD) in long-term payable debt.