Banknote handling machine

A banknote handling machine comprising:

• a take-in unit configured to take in a plurality of banknotes, one by one;
• a recognition unit configured to recognize a kind of each banknote taken in by the take-in unit;
• a plurality of stacking units configured to stack therein the banknotes;
• a transport unit configured to transport the banknotes, recognized by the recognition unit to any of the plurality of stacking units;
• an instruction accepting unit configured to accept an instruction concerning an automatic decision mode provided for deciding the kind of the banknotes to be stacked for one transaction by utilizing a recognition result obtained by the recognition unit, for each of the plurality of stacking units;
• and
• a control unit configured to control the transport unit to transport each banknote to a destination, which destination is decided based on the instruction accepted by the instruction accepting unit and on the recognition result obtained by the recognition unit, wherein the automatic decision mode for the banknotes to be stacked includes a first automatic decision mode and a second automatic decision mode, the first automatic decision mode being provided for deciding a first kind of the banknotes that has been recognized first by the recognition unit, as the first kind of the banknotes to be stacked in any of the stacking units, and the second automatic decision mode being provided for deciding a second kind of the banknotes that is different than the first kind of banknotes and has been secondarily recognized by the recognition unit, as the second kind of the banknotes to be stacked in any of the stacking units,
• wherein the first kind of the banknotes are transferred to a stacking unit which is set in the first automatic decision mode, and the second kind of the banknotes are transferred to a stacking unit which is set in the second automatic decision mode.