A Japanese friend once told me that when Suica first came out, young people in Tokyo sent Suica cards to hometown families to use for coming to Tokyo. But parents […]
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The PASPY thing
PASPY announced today that PASPY transit IC card service ends March 2025. The official replacement has been announced, billed as the “the fist Account Based Ticketing system in Japan” (yeah […]
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Timeout: a very long transit card transit
It’s been a year since JR Central’s TOICA network was expanded to more stations making Suica-TOICA-ICOCA cross region commuter passes available for the very first time. Regular transit cards are […]
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Delete Suica from Apple Pay without a Japanese bank account
Stored value transit cards like Suica are different from branded credit • debit • prepaid cards issued by banks as the money is stored on the card itself (called the […]
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Bad Suica App reviews, real or urban legend?
Suica App user reviews are relentlessly bad, rip after rip of ‘this software sucks’. Never a good thing to say. Here’s the thing however, when you dig into the reviews […]
Apple Pay Suica - Suica App
Deliciously timely iOS 15.4 Wallet and Mobile Suica day pass support
JR East announced 2 new features for Mobile Suica yesterday: day passes and student commuter pass online purchase and renewal support. Day passes are already available for plastic Suica, Mobile […]