After posting about the surprise rise of Mobile Suica payment use it occurred to me that I failed to take the corporate transit angle into consideration. COVID has been hard […]
Suica Light, the Welcome Suica for locals
JR East announced, yet another, Suica card: Suica Light. In terms of functionality it has no card deposit, a 6 month transit validity, card issue is not direct from JR […]
Dealing with a lost Wallet
Yusuke Sakakura writes: As usual, I tried to get on the train using Apple Pay Suica at the ticket gate, but it didn’t respond at all and I got stuck. […]
Lawson Bank app adding Mobile Suica recharge in 2022
See, I told you that when VISA Japan finally signed on with Apple Pay it was just the latest shot in the digital banking wars. Today we have another one: […]
A very strange Apple Pay Suica outage
The October 5 Apple Pay & Wallet outage that went completely unnoticed outside of Japan and Hong Kong was a very strange one. That’s because it was a very specific […]
Apple Pay Suica • PASMO • Octopus service outages follow the Facebook one
16:00~18:00 October 5, 2021 JSTApple Pay / iCloud system status updated to ‘outage resolved’ at 16:00 JST. Mobile Suica and Mobile PASMO Apple Pay services were also listed as ‘restored’ […]