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 […]
SmartEX - EXPRESS - Suica - Transit
My JR-EAST mess
My JR-EAST, like a lot of JR East software services, is a nice idea, poorly implemented. It’s an attempt to unify scattered account login IDs for various JR East web […]
Apple - Apple Pay Suica - Apple Pay Transit - CASHLESS - Mobile Payments - NFC - NFC-Felica - PASMO - SmartEX - EXPRESS - Suica - Suica App - Transit
Transit IC only JR East Shinkansen eTicket reservations start today
The new JR East Shinkansen eTicket service debuts March 14, but 30 day advance ticket reservations mean it kinda starts today. The best explanation, Japanese only at this point, is […]
Apple - Apple Pay Suica - Apple Pay Transit - NFC-Felica - SmartEX - EXPRESS - Suica - Transit
New JR East eTicket service launches March 14
JR East is launching their new eTicket service starting March 14 via the eki-net app for iOS and Android, a refresh for the venerable online eki-net service will be coming […]
Apple - Apple Pay Suica - Apple Pay Transit - NFC-Felica - SmartEX - EXPRESS - Suica - Transit
JR Central Online EX Ticketing Extends to Kyushu Shinkansen in 2022
JR Central/JR West/JR Kyushu issued a joint PR release that JR Central’s EX Shinkansen eTicket system, encompassing both EXPress Reservation and smartEX services, will be adding JR Kyushu Hakata~Kagomashima Shinkansen […]
Apple - Apple Pay Suica - Apple Pay Transit - NFC - NFC-Felica - SmartEX - EXPRESS - Suica - Suica App - Transit
iOS 13 Apple Pay Suica Warning for EX App users
One of the early issues of using Apple Pay Suica was that the Suica card ID number would change every time the card was removed and re-added to Wallet, migrated […]